Dissertation Research: Prehistoric Settlement, Subsistence, and Seasonality in the Pine Creek Basin, Southern Columbia Plataeu

在C博士的指导下。Melvin Aikens，Pamela Endzweig女士， 俄勒冈州大学人类学研究生， 将为她的博士论文收集信息聚焦 约翰戴河和支流松溪，位于 在俄勒冈州的高原地区，Endzweig女士将进行一项调查， 分析已经收集到的数据。 在多年的时间里， 实地项目，俄勒冈州科学与工业博物馆 发现并挖掘了许多考古遗址， 两千多年的历史， 这是该地区史前史的重要组成部分。 然而，许多 所恢复丰富的文化材料没有得到适当的 分析，除了她自己的调查，Endzweig女士将 协调对这些遗骸的分析 丰富的动物群和 将研究花卉材料。 他们将一起提供洞察力 进入该地区的史前生态， 关于美洲原住民如何使用它的信息 随着时间 这些数据还应表明 在这些季节里，个别地点被占领。 化学 还将确定燧石工具的成分。 这将 希望能让人工制品与地质来源相匹配 从而提供对更大贸易网络的洞察。 虽然大量的考古研究已经进行 在高原地区，很多都与文化有关， 资源管理工作，因此主要集中在 在大河谷的底部。 其结果是一个极端的 史前生活方式的不完整和扭曲的画面。 虽然一些考古学家认为， 人口确实集中在河谷的格局， 回到遥远的过去，其他人不同意， 指出了Endzweig女士正在出现的那种数据， 收集。 她目前的研究应该对 这个问题 这个项目之所以重要，有几个原因。将加大 我们对人类如何在一个简单的层面上运作的理解， 适应困难和波动环境的技术。 它将提供大量的感兴趣的数据， 考古学家，并最终协助培训一个有前途的 年轻的科学家

Under the direction of Dr. C. Melvin Aikens, Ms Pamela Endzweig, a graduate student in Anthropology at the University of Oregon, will collect information for her doctoral dissertation. Focussing on the John Day River and tributary Pine Creek, located in the Plateau region of Oregon, Ms Endzweig will both conduct a survey and analyze data already collected. In the course of a multiyear field project, the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry has located and excavated a number of archeological sites which span a period of over two thousand years and thus document a significant portion of the region's prehistory. However, much of the rich cultural material recovered has not been properly analyzed and, in addition to her own survey, MS Endzweig will coordinate the analyses of these remains. Abundant faunal and floral material will be studied. Together they will give insight into the prehistoric ecology of the region and provide information on how its use by Native American peoples changed over time. These data should also give an indication of the seasons during which individual sites were occupied. Chemical composition of chert tools will also be determined. This will permit - hopefully - artifacts to be matched to geological source and thus provide insight into larger trade networks. Although considerable archaeological research has been conducted in the Plateau region, much has been associated with cultural resource management work and therefore is concentrated primarily in the base of large river valleys. The result is an extremely incomplete and skewed picture of the prehistoric way of life. While some archaeologists have argued that the observed historic pattern in which population did concentrate in river valleys can be projected back into the distant past, others disagree and point to emerging data of the type which Ms Endzweig is collecting. Her present research should shed important light on this issue. This project is important for several reasons. It will increase our understanding of how humans operating at a simple level of technology adapted to a difficult and fluctuating environment. It will provide data of interest to a large number of archaeologists and finally assist in the training of a promising young scientist.