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In the shadow of the steamboat : a natural and cultural history of North Warner Valley, Oregon / Geoffrey M. Smith ; with contributions by Pat Barker, Erica J. Bradley, Anna J. Camp, Judson B. Finley, Denay Grund, Eugene M. Hattori, Bryan S. Hockett, Christopher S. Jazwa, Jaime L. Kennedy, Donald D. Pattee, Evan J. Pellegrini, Richard L. Rosencrance, Daniel O. Stueber, Madeline Ware Van der Voort, and Teresa A. Wriston.
Penn Museum Library E78.O6 S65 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, Geoffrey M., 1974- author.
- Series:
- University of Utah anthropological papers ; no. 137.
- University of Utah anthropological papers ; 137
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indians of North America--Oregon--Warner Valley--Antiquities.
- Indians of North America.
- Indians of North America--Oregon--Warner Valley--Social life and customs.
- Paleoecology--Oregon--Warner Valley.
- Paleoecology.
- Excavations (Archaeology)--Oregon--Warner Valley.
- Excavations (Archaeology).
- Antiquities.
- Indians of North America--Antiquities.
- Indians of North America--Social life and customs.
- Warner Valley (Or.)--Antiquities.
- Warner Valley (Or.).
- Oregon--Antiquities.
- Oregon.
- Oregon--Warner Valley.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 197 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 28 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, 2022.
- Summary:
- "This volume tracks 13,000 years of environmental and cultural change in North Warner Valley, Oregon. Though other parts of the Oregon Desert have been studied by scientists for almost a century, North Warner Valley largely escaped researchers' attention until recently. A decade of fieldwork and laboratory analyses has revealed a record of human activity that waxed and waned with local and regional environmental and social change. The studies of the landscape, lithic technology, plant and animal foods, and bone and shell objects presented in the volume, which come mostly from a stratified rock shelter record that spans almost ten millennia but also dozens of open-air sites, tell a story of people-most often families-who visited North Warner Valley periodically to collect marsh plants, rabbits, and other resources. Those people had ties to groups living in northwestern Nevada, central Oregon, and even the Pacific Coast. Smith and colleagues present their work in a way that allows readers to not only understand how people adapted to local change but also how North Warner Valley fit into the complex mosaic of pre-contact history in the American West that began during the late Pleistocene and continued until recent times. The volume outlines the most comprehensive research effort to be conducted in the northern Great Basin in more than two decades, and the multidisciplinary nature of the work should interest students of natural and cultural history, archaeology, and Indigenous lifeways"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. I Project Setting
- 1. Research Perspectives / Geoffrey M. Smith
- 2. Archaeological and Ethnographic Context / Pat Barker
- 3. The History of Lake Warner / Geoffrey M. Smith
- pt. II The Little Steamboat Point-T Rockshelter
- 4. History of Work, Stratigraphy, and Cultural Chronology / Bryan S. Hockett
- 5. Feature Distribution, Content, and Plant Use / Bryan S. Hockett
- 6. Fauna / Erica J. Bradley
- 7. Flaked Stone Artifacts / Daniel O. Stueber
- 8. Early Holocene Leporid Processing / Geoffrey M. Smith
- 9. Ground- and Burned-Stone Artifacts / Denay Grund
- 10. Stone, Bone, and Shell Ornaments and Tools / Bryan S. Hockett
- 11. Fiber Artifacts / Eugene M. Hattori
- 12. Site Structure and Occupation Duration / Christopher S. Jazwa
- pt. III North Warner Valley Settlement-Subsistence Patterns
- 13. Survey Results / Donald D. Pattee
- pt. IV Synthesis and Conclusions
- 14. A Natural and Cultural History of North Warner Valley / Geoffrey M. Smith.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Professor Elisabeth J. Tooker Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781647690748
- 1647690749
- OCLC:
- 1286368484
- Publisher Number:
- 99991988953
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