Journal article
A Field Report from the Sunken Village Wet Site (35MU4)
The Midden
2008
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7273/000006263
Abstract
During low waters of September a wet site team, sponsored by an international grant from Japan, returned to further record the National Heritage Landmark wet site of Sunken Village (35MU4), Sauvie Island, Portland, Oregon (Figure 1). The one week project (September 16 through 22, 2007) was designed to accurately map the surface features ( especially over a hundred in situ acorn leaching pits and wooden stakes) and surface artifacts (especially lithic debitage and fauna! remains) as revealed in the limited evaluation of I 060 linear feet (320 metres) of beach before the riprap repair was permitted by the U.S. Corps of Engineers in October of 2006 (Croes, Fagan and Zehendner 2007; a PDF copy of this 2006 field work is available on the web - see References below). The project continues to be co-managed through the direct in-put by Cultural Resources Protection Specialists Eirik Thorsgard, Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde, and Robert Kentta, Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians and in consultation with the Confederated Tribes of Warms Springs. A joint team provided the expertise needed to carefully map and record the Sunken Village National Historic Landmark site, consisting of(a) the SPSCC Wet Site Archaeological Investigations and Laboratory team, lead by Dr. Dale Croes, and the SPSCC Computer Aided Drafting Department, lead by Professor Michael Martin, (b) the AINW geoarchaeological and laboratory team, lead by Dr. Michele Punke and Maureen Zehendner, and ( c) the internationally known Wetland Archaeological Team from the National Institute for Cultural Heritage, Nara, Japan, lead by Dr. Akira Matsui. This project was conducted through the sponsorship of a Japanese international grant under the administration of Dr. Akira Matsui, Chief Archaeologist, National Institute for Cultural Heritage, Nara, Japan, as well as support through the SPSCC Anthropology Club, an SPSCC Exceptional Faculty grant, Jean and Ray Auel, and volunteers from Portland State University and the Oregon Archaeological Society. Dr. Matsui brought four Japanese associates to participate in the field work: Dr. Naoto Yamamoto, Dr. Toru Miyao, Dr. Atsushi Iwasaki, and Dr. Tomonori Kanno (Figure 2).
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- Title
- A Field Report from the Sunken Village Wet Site (35MU4)
- Creators
- Dale R. Croes (Author) - Washington State University, Anthropology, Department ofMichael Martin (Author)John L. Fagan (Author)Maureen Newman Zehendner (Author)Michele Punke (Author)Kathleen Hawes (Author)Olivia Ness (Author)
- Publication Details
- The Midden
- Academic Unit
- Anthropology, Department of
- Publisher
- Washington State University
- Identifiers
- 99901089441401842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article