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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Columbia Plateau"”.
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GIS Modeling of Desert Root Crop Maturation on the Mid-Columbia Plateau
… patterns of the prehistoric inhabitants of the Columbia Plateau were choreographed to match the cadence of the seasons, with movements timed to efficiently utilize available resources. Desert roots, such as lomatium and bitterroot, provided a primary source of dietary nutrition, yet the ideal …
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Land Use Variation on Mid-Columbia Plateau Upland and Lowland Archaeology Sites
Investigators of the Mid-Plateau archaeological record have interpreted artifact deposits in their environmental settings as evidence of human land use labeled as site types. Land use models consisting of cultural and environmental variables were developed from those studies. Those variables were …
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The dietary mineral content of Claytonia lanceolata corms from multiple populations across the Columbia Plateau region of North America
… we sampled 12 populations across the Columbia Plateau region of North America. We resampled six populations about 30 days after our initial harvest. Corms were assayed for dietary mineral and toxic metal content using standard ICP-OES methods. We found that a single serving of corms …
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To labor as an Indian travels: what the Spokan Indians taught the Eells and Walkers, early missionaries on the Columbia Plateau
… a gentler light on this era of transition on the Columbia Plateau. Their story should not distract from what occurred elsewhere in the Oregon Country during the 1830s and 1840s, but its telling gives a fuller and thus a more accurate picture of what took place during the missionary era of the …
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Systematics and biogeography of the Great Basin pocket mouse, Perognathus parvus
… that extends across three geological regions: Columbia Plateau, Great Basin and Colorado Plateau. Limited ability of P. parvus to disperse over large areas and across areas of unsuitable habitat provide a foundation for studying biogeographic vicariance hypotheses related to its distribution. …
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Identifying Key Factors Affecting Translational Landslides in Part of the Yakima Fold and Thrust Belt, Washington State
… for landslide hazard assessment grows. On the Columbia Plateau in central Washington, the smooth rigid, inclined surfaces of the Columbia River Basalts (CRBs) with loose sediment layers between them induces landslides of large blocks of bedrock. These hazards remain poorly understood, but their …
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Faunal Analysis of the Mesa 12 Archaeological Site (45GR144): Grant County, Washington
… the “Mesa Project” excavating four sites on the Columbia Plateau in Grant County, Washington. These mesas are small isolated basalt buttes, 100 or more feet above the surrounding scabland channels, with cultural materials on the top and base. They are hypothesized by some researchers to be …
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Variability in the Debitage of the Early Holocene Lithic Assemblages of the Sanders (45KT315) Site
… and environmental conditions for the Southern Columbia Plateau. Use Wear patterns remain relatively stable between the two Lithic Components.
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Talus Features of the Middle Columbia River: Typological and Locational Analyses
The form and function of talus features of the Columbia Plateau are the subject of archaeological investigations and cultural resource evaluation and protection programs. Depressions excavated in talus slopes, most often circular to oval in shape, are called talus pits. Pit features are also …
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Sampling the Local Fare: Fishes at the Sam Israel House Pit (45GR76), Soap Lake, Washington
… prior to this research. Since this inland Columbia Plateau site had thousands of fish bones, it contained untapped potential for our understanding of ancient local fish procurement. As such, I conducted a detailed analysis of 2,862 fish bone specimens from the Sam Israel House Pit locus to: …
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Eastern Washington University and the Ice Age flood debate: processing the papers of EWU Professor Dale F. Stradling
<p>"Background. The Eastern Washington University-Archives and Special Collections have recently acquired the papers of EWU Professor Emeritus of Geography Dale F. Stradling. Stradling taught at EWU for many years and as well as being of significance to the history of the university,this collection …
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Forager and Collector Strategies in the Yakima Uplands: An Analysis of Archaeological Assemblages from Testing Projects on the U.S. Army Yakima Training Center, WA.
Despite nearly 40 years of testing projects on the Yakima Training Center, there remains little understanding of human adaptations and subsistence patterns through time in the Yakima Uplands. Additionally, there is a need for a managerial testing review. Assemblage data from fifty-one discrete …
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A Zooarchaeological Analysis of Hole-in-the-Wall Canyon (45KT12) and French Rapids (45KT13) Sites: Ginkgo State Park, Washington
A taxonomic and taphonomic faunal analysis was completed for the entire zooarchaeological collection (n=5,354) for two prehistoric archaeological housepit sites, Hole-in-the-Wall Canyon (45KT12) and French Rapids (45KT13). Both sites are located near Vantage, Washington, within the inundated area …