In the shadow of the steamboat : a natural and cultural history of North Warner Valley, Oregon /

In the shadow of the steamboat : a natural and cultural history of North Warner Valley, Oregon /

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Author / Creator:	Smith, Geoffrey M, 1974- author.
Imprint:	Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, 2022. ©2022
Description:	xviii, 197 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 28 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	University of Utah anthropological papers ; 137 University of Utah anthropological papers ; no. 137.
Subject:	Indians of North America -- Oregon -- Warner Valley -- Antiquities. Indians of North America -- Oregon -- Warner Valley -- Social life and customs. Paleoecology -- Oregon -- Warner Valley. Excavations (Archaeology) -- Oregon -- Warner Valley. Antiquities. Excavations (Archaeology) Indians of North America -- Antiquities. Indians of North America -- Social life and customs. Paleoecology. Warner Valley (Or.) -- Antiquities. Oregon -- Antiquities. Oregon. Oregon -- Warner Valley.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12773341

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Other authors / contributors:	Barker, James P. (James Patrick), contributor. Bradley, Erica J., contributor. Camp, Anna J., contributor. Finley, Judson Byrd, contributor. Grund, Denay, contributor. Hattori, Eugene Mitsuru, contributor. Hockett, Bryan S., contributor. Jazwa, Christopher S., contributor. Kennedy, Jaime L., contributor. Pattee, Donald D., contributor. Pellegrini, Evan J., contributor. Rosencrance, Richard L., contributor. Stueber, Daniel O., contributor. Van der Voort, Madeline Ware, contributor. Wriston, Teresa A., contributor.
ISBN:	9781647690748 1647690749 9781647690755
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references.
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"--

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Summary:	This volume tracks 13,000 years of environmental and cultural change in North Warner Valley, part of the Oregon Desert that has largely escaped researchers' attention. The authors present a decade of fieldwork and laboratory analyses that reveals a record of human activity that waxed and waned with local and regional environmental and social change. Open-air sites, lithic technology, plant and animal foods, and bone and shell objects--most from a stratified rockshelter record that spans almost ten millennia--tell a story of people who visited North Warner Valley periodically to collect marsh plants, rabbits, and other resources.<br> <br> <br> <br> Smith and colleagues present their work in a way that allows readers to understand not only how people adapted to local change but also how North Warner Valley fits into the complex mosaic of precontact history in the American West. This research is the most comprehensive work conducted in the northern Great Basin in more than two decades. Its multidisciplinary nature should interest students of natural and cultural history, archaeology, and Indigenous lifeways.<br> <br>
Physical Description:	xviii, 197 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 28 cm.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:	9781647690748 1647690749 9781647690755