The analysis of prehistoric stone features has suffered for two separate but related reasons. The first is the lack of stringency in defining the terms attributed to these structures and, second, the perception of a lack of formal attributes exhibited by them. These two factors have made it impossible to...
Human settlement patterns are the ways in which people locate themselves over the terrain in their area of occupation. Settlement pattern prediction attempts to define and understand the factors in culture, technology, and environment that shape the spatial distribution of habitation sites for a given group of people. A systematic...
This study is an archeological testing report for the Willamette
Mission Hospital Site. Landform analysis, photointerpretation and historical
research were integrated with anthropological theory for this
study.
The site is an invaluable data base to further the study of human
adaptability and cultural change. It should provide an excellent context...
The dramatic upsurge of contract-supported archaeological activity,
generated by legislative action, has precipitated an increase
in information about Oregon's prehistoric peoples. This information,
however, has not been presented in a format which can be easily
understood by the general public.
This study presents an account of early peoples in Oregon,...
Native Americans in southwest Oregon are a heterogenous
group comprising one-quarter of the state's total Indian
population. Despite their notable size, Native Americans in
this six county area are either ineligible for, or inaccessible
to, federally sponsored Indian health facilities available
to Native peoples elsewhere. Research was conducted
over an...
A log step develops when large woody debris extends across the active
channel, creating a change in the water surface elevation as the stream
spills over the log step. By forming a series of vertical falls, log
steps reduce the amount of potential energy available for conversion to
kinetic energy...
Hart Mountain is a basaltic fault block mountain
in the semi-desert region of the northern Basin and Range
province in south-central Oregon. Geomorphic processes
associated with lingering snowpatches have formed nivation
hollows, which are small scale depressions in the hillsides.
The lingering snow in the hollows prohibits shrub
growth. Bedrock...
The "Framework for Determining the Suitability of Undeveloped
Land for Use as Cropland" is a decision-making format to assist private
and governmental agency decision makers in categorizing undeveloped
lands, which have been identified as having potential for conversion
to cropland, as to their suitability for use as cropland. The
Framework...
The North Unit irrigation District of Central Oregon,
a water project developed under the guidelines of the
Bureau of Reclamation, is characterized by limited water
and the need for efficient utilization and control of the
irrigation system. To manage the limited water resource,
irrigators need a timely and economical method...
Archaeologists use diversity as one way of
characterizing their assemblages. Diversity refers to both
the number of artifact classes present (richness) and the
proportional representation of classes (evenness).
Numerical diversity indices measure one or both components.
Archaeologists use assemblage diversity to infer behavior
of prehistoric cultures.
Archaeological inferences about behavior...