A Holocene geoarchaeological record for the Upper Willamette Valley, Oregon
Subtitle: the Long Tom and Chalker sites
By: Brian L. O'Neill, Thomas J. Connolly, and Dorothy E. Freidel ; with contributions by Patricia F. McDowell and Guy L. Prouty.
Contributors: Connolly, Thomas J.; Freidel, Dorothy E. 1942-; McDowell, Patricia F.; Prouty, Guy Lee, 1960-
Series: University of Oregon anthropological papers -- no. 61.
Publisher: Museum of Natural History and the Dept. of Anthropology, University of Oregon
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Eugene, Or
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
Subjects: Excavations (Archaeology) -- Oregon -- Willamette River Valley.; Excavations (Archaeology) -- Oregon -- Long Tom River Watershed.; Kalapuya Indians -- Antiquities.; Archaeology and history -- Oregon -- Willamette River Valley.; Archaeology and history -- Oregon -- Long Tom River Watershed.; Stone implements -- Oregon -- Willamette River Valley.; Stone implements -- Oregon -- Long Tom River Watershed.; Willamette River Valley (Or.) -- Antiquities.; Long Tom River Watershed (Or.) -- Antiquities.
Other titles: Long Tom and Chalker sites.
Description: Archaeological investigations at the Chalker (35LA420) and Long Tom (35LA439) sites were prompted by the Oregon Department of Transportation's plan to realign a segment of the Florence-Eugene Highway (OR 126) between the communities of Noti and Veneta. When these sites were discovered in the proposed new highway corridor, additional survey and testing was done to identify an alternate route that would avoid the sites. For every new alignment examined, however, additional significant cultural sites were encountered. While the final construction design avoided most of the identified sites, impacts on two, the Chalker and Long Tom sites, were found to be unavoidable. Data recovery excavation at these two sites was accomplished during the summer and fall of 1986, and is reported here.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [230]-242).
Table of contents: title: Research context of the Upper Willamette Valley; title: Natural environment; title: Cultural setting; title: Sediment analysis studies: geomorphology and soils of the Chalker and Long Tom sites; title: Alluvial stratigraphy of the Long Tom River Floodplain; title: Magnetometer survey at the Long Tom and Chalker sites; title: Archaeology of the Long Tom site (35LA439); title: Archaeology of the Chalker site (35LA420); title: Obsidian studies; title: Aboriginal plant; title: Cultural and landscape history of the Upper Willamette Valley: summary and discussion.