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Zooarchaeologjcal and Taphonomic Investigations of Site 35JA42, Upper Applegate River, Southwestern Oregon

Creator:: Schmitt, Dave N.
Abstract:: Site 35JA42 represents the first protohistoric village complex excavated in Southwest Oregon. Analyses of animal bones recovered from the site offer the first significant insights into human subsistence behaviors in this region. Although the faunal assemblage is extremely fragmented, detailed zooarchaeological analysis indicates that deer were the primary meat resource...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
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Oregon's early peoples and their relation to the environment : an interpretive approach

Creator:: Possiel, William John
Abstract:: 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,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Approach Abstract approved: Redacted for Privacy David R. Brauner The dramatic upsurge of contract

Red light ladies : settlement patterns and material culture on the frontier

Creator:: Simmons-Rogers, Alexandra L.
Abstract:: Red Light Ladies presents a perspective on prostitution in North America, within the context of the western mining frontier. A biographical profile of the frontier prostitutor is presented, along with an archaeological model of settlement patterns and material culture. Settlement patterns and demographic changes in the prostitutor population are hypothetically...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
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Families on the Move : The Powledge Family of Meriwether County, Georgia, 1820-1900

Creator:: Roberts, Nancy A.
Abstract:: The migrations of four generations of the Powledge family centering around Meriwether County, Georgia were described within the context of social and economic forces in the United States in 1820 to 1900. The family was representative of thousands of families that migrated westward. The migrations were found to correlate with...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

The Identification of Early Prehistoric Settlement Patterns Along the Coast of Southwest Oregon : A Survey Based Upon Amateur Artifact Collections

Creator:: Pullen, Reginald John
Abstract:: Surveys of amateur artifact collections in southwest Oregon indicate that traditional settlement pattern models for this region may be in error. Based on the distribution of major styles of projectile points, at least two distinct periods of occupation are definable. The Early period is tentatively dated between 1000 B.C. and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
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Individual Society and Adaptation in Edinburgh, Scotland, and the Massachusetts Bay Colony--1650

Creator:: Hagerty, Dorothy Dean
Abstract:: The research examines the reasons for and value of both deliberate and amorphous mutual-aid societies that influenced the life and success of an individual who lived in seventeenth-century Edinburgh, Scotland, and the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Information is developed to allow a contextual comparison of life in both areas. The mutual-aid...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
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Megascopic plant remains from three housepits along the Applegate River, southwest Oregon

Creator:: Cole, Madeline L.
Abstract:: In 1982 a protohistoric archaeological site along the Applegate River in southwest Oregon was excavated by Oregon State University Department of Anthropology. Three housepits and a possible menstrual but were uncovered with lithic, faunal, and archaeobotanical elements recovered from house floors and hearths. Seven botanical taxa were represented by carbonized...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
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When Celilo was Celilo : an analysis of salmon use during the past 11,000 years in the Columbia Plateau

Creator:: Thomison, Patrick
Abstract:: The presence and significance of salmon for prehistoric and aboriginal people of the Columbia Plateau is a matter of considerable debate among anthropologists, archaeologists and historians. Data from over 100 archaeological sites are scrutinized in the light of an example salmon fishery developed from ethnographic and archaeological information on aboriginal...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
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Upper Deschutes River Basin Prehistory: A Preliminary Examination of Flaked Stone Tools and Debitage

Creator:: Taggart, Michael W.
Abstract:: The prehistory of Central Oregon is explored through the examination of six archaeological sites and two isolated finds from the Upper Deschutes River Basin. Inquiry focuses on the land use, mobility, technological organization, and raw material procurement of the aboriginal inhabitants of the area. Archaeological data presented here are augmented...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
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Zooarchaeologjcal and Taphonomic Investigations of Site 35JA42, Upper Applegate River, Southwestern Oregon

Oregon's early peoples and their relation to the environment : an interpretive approach

Red light ladies : settlement patterns and material culture on the frontier

Families on the Move : The Powledge Family of Meriwether County, Georgia, 1820-1900

The Identification of Early Prehistoric Settlement Patterns Along the Coast of Southwest Oregon : A Survey Based Upon Amateur Artifact Collections

Individual Society and Adaptation in Edinburgh, Scotland, and the Massachusetts Bay Colony--1650

Megascopic plant remains from three housepits along the Applegate River, southwest Oregon

When Celilo was Celilo : an analysis of salmon use during the past 11,000 years in the Columbia Plateau

Upper Deschutes River Basin Prehistory: A Preliminary Examination of Flaked Stone Tools and Debitage

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