Magazine article
Wet-Site Excavation at Sunken Village Site on the Columbia River
The Midden, Vol.38(4), pp.8-11
2006
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7273/000006248
Abstract
The extensive in situ acorn pits are the most remarkable features at this landmark site. During surface exposure and mapping, all such pits contained remnants of whole acorns. Also wood and fiber artifacts were observed in and around these pits, including a shredded cedar bark cape/skirt fragment, a broken wooden wedge, wooden arrow shafts, and a well-preserved basket distinctive of the region's fine basket work. The basket piece was found with intact base and sides (no rim remained) all carefully cross-warp twined of split cedar root (identified by Bud Lane, master weaver, Siletz, and Patricia Gold, master Wasco weaver, Warm Springs; Figures 5 and 6). The style of this basket is definitely from this region and demonstrates an ancient continuity of this style of basketry. Baskets found from northern ancient wet sites are of a very different style, and themselves demonstrate at least 3,000 years of basketry cultural continuity in Salish, Makah, and Tsimshian traditional territories. For full final report on two summer's of explorations, second one sponsored by Japanese Archaeology program, see: Croes, Dale R., John L. Fagan and Maureen Newman Zehendner 2009 Sunken Village, Sauvie Island, Oregon, USA, A Report on the 2006-2007 Investigations of National Historic Landmark Site 35MU4. Journal of Wetland Archaeology Special Edition 9, 1-216. Available on Amazon
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- Title
- Wet-Site Excavation at Sunken Village Site on the Columbia River
- Creators
- Dale R. Croes (Author) - Washington State University, Anthropology, Department ofJohn L. Fagan (Author)Maureen Newman Zehendner (Author)
- Publication Details
- The Midden, Vol.38(4), pp.8-11
- Academic Unit
- Anthropology, Department of
- Publisher
- Washington State University
- Identifiers
- 99901087340001842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Magazine article