In the shadow of the steamboat : a natural and cultural history of North Warner Valley, Oregon
Bibliographie
- Auteurs : Smith Geoffrey M. (1974-....) ; Barker James Patrick ; Bradley Erica J. ; Camp Anna J. ; Fowler Don D. (1936-....) ; Fowler Catherine Sweeney ;
- ISBN : 978-1-64769-074-8
- Sujets : Paléoindiens -- États-Unis -- Warner Valley (Or., vallée), Paléoécologie, Indiens d'Amérique, Antiquités préhistoriques, Fouilles archéologiques, Warner Valley (Or.) -- Antiquities, Oregon
- Comprend : A natural and cultural history of North Warner Valley, Oregon
- Langue(s) : Anglais
- Description matérielle : 1 volume (XVIII-197 pages), : Illustrations en noir et en couleurs, tableaux, cartes illustrées en noir et en couleurs, couverture illustrée en couleurs, 28 cm
- Pays de publication : États-Unis
- Collection (notice d'ensemble) : The University of Utah anthropological papers, Number 137,
Notes
La ressource est également disponible en format numérique ; Bibliographie pages 177-195
Résumé
'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'