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

    Creator:
    Possiel, William John
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    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,...
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    Masters Thesis
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    mountaintop - Mt. Mazama, in this instance (Figure 6). Howell Williams (1942) described Mt. Mazama as a peak

  • Development of a Bone Artifact Typology for the Oregon Coast

    Creator:
    Lindsay, Lee W.
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    This thesis was to develop a bone artifact typology for the Oregon coast. This typology was used to test the hypothesis that different geographical regions of the Oregon coast would have different artifact assemblages associated with them. These regions, identified by geologist from landform changes, have been defined as: region...
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    who shared the reservation were frequently adopted (Viles, 1988). The studies of Franz Boas (1898), J

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

    Creator:
    Cole, Madeline L.
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    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...
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    , ethnographic, and ethnobotanical data. Melville Jacobs, a student of Franz Boas, concentrated during 1938-1939