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Kinship, Environment and the Forest Service : Homesteading in Oregon's Coast Range

Creator:: Prior, Jan M.
Abstract:: The settlement history of a remote area in the Coast Range of Oregon, from the 1870s to the 1930s, is examined through factors that may have influenced the success or failure, and length of residence of the homesteaders and later residents. Despite the rugged and isolated location, a small community...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Governmental policies and the preservation and display of Native American cultural resources in the middle Columbia Basin

Creator:: Michael, Elva Olson
Abstract:: Prior to advent of Europeans in the Pacific Northwest, the Middle Columbia River Basin was the location of highly developed native cultures. For centuries it was the center of very important native trade networks that extended over western North America and a site of important intertribal rituals relating to renewal...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Archeological Testing at the Willamette Mission Hospital Site

Creator:: Bewall, Douglas A.
Abstract:: 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...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

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
Full Text:: can fight when the day seems lost. (Notestein 1946:ix). A Roman army, commanded by England's Roman

Aboriginal fishing at Seal Rock (35-LC-14) and Neptune (35-LA-3) : late-prehistoric archaeological sites on the central Oregon coast

Creator:: Zontek, Terry
Abstract:: A sample of fish remains from two late-prehistoric archaeological sites on the central coast of Oregon were analyzed to partially evaluate two models of aboriginal subsistence-settlement systems. One model is based upon ethnograhpic data, primarily Drucker's (1939), for Yakonen speakers collected in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: collection supplemented by agriculture and Government allotments. In 1865 the United States yielded to

Log cabin construction techniques in western Siskiyou County, 1850-1935 : their function and ethnic origins

Creator:: Abusaidi, Ali
Abstract:: Under the sponsorship of the Klamath National Forest, 25 log cabins which were built in western Siskiyou County between 1850 and 1937 were located and studied. First, 11 exterior dimensions of these cabins were selected, measured and recorded. Then 26 building elements were identified for the purpose of finding whether...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

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
Full Text:: understanding the taphonomic history of a site (Binford 1981; Gifford 1981; Lyman 1982). The faunal assemblage

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
Full Text:: constructed of Pinus lambertiana (sugar pine). Holt (1946:308) has said: There were a few villages up from

The Development of Astronomy in the United States Prior to 1900

Creator:: Harburg, William A.
Abstract:: From the earliest English colonization to the present day, there has been interest in astronomy in this country. The purpose of this thesis is to show how the science of astronomy developed in America from the earliest observations by educated colonists using imported instruments and publishing in European journals, to...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: University Press, 1946), pp. 344-345. 4 Bessie Zaban Jones and Lyle Gifford Boyd, The Harvard Observatory

The Schultz Fire: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on its History, Management, and Ecological Effects

Creator:: Ranseen, Susanne N.
Abstract:: This thesis examines the Schultz Fire as a case study to explain the complex history of fire suppression management in America’s forests, and to gain further understanding of how management practices have affected the increase in fire severity levels and how forests respond to such a disturbance. The thesis objectives...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: managed essentially as a crop, rather than as part of a functioning landscape.13 Gifford Pinchot, the

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Kinship, Environment and the Forest Service : Homesteading in Oregon's Coast Range

Governmental policies and the preservation and display of Native American cultural resources in the middle Columbia Basin

Archeological Testing at the Willamette Mission Hospital Site

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

Aboriginal fishing at Seal Rock (35-LC-14) and Neptune (35-LA-3) : late-prehistoric archaeological sites on the central Oregon coast

Log cabin construction techniques in western Siskiyou County, 1850-1935 : their function and ethnic origins

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

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

The Development of Astronomy in the United States Prior to 1900

The Schultz Fire: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on its History, Management, and Ecological Effects

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