The Younger Dryas climatic event is a global phenomenon associated with a 1,000 year return to glacial conditions during the late Pleistocene period between 12,800 and 11,500 cal BP. Because of its significant effects on paleoenvironmental conditions in some parts of the world, archaeologists commonly seek to assess whether the...
This thesis is a case study of the Warner Valley Stock Company,
a large eastern Oregon Stock Ranch, which utilizes over
680,000 acres of government grazing land. The purpose is to examine
the background growth, and forces affecting the ranch. The
relationship of man to land can be understood by...