The Sunset Creek Site Report
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i.
ABSTRACT
i
ii.
FOREWORD
ii
Letter from David G. Rice
ii
Letter from R. W. Gillette
iv
iii.
LIST OF FIGURES
iv
iv.
LIST OF TABLES
vi
v.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
vii
I.
INTRODUCTION
1
History of the Field Work
1
The Problem
1
Organization of the Report
2
II
DEFINITIONS
2
Areal Terminology
2
Archaeological Constructs of Time and Space
3
III.
THE SETTING
4
Ecology and Physiography.
5
Ethnography
6
IV.
THE CULTURAL RECORD
6
The Site and Its Stratigraphy
7
The Cultural Continuum
8
The Vantage Phase
8
Cultural Component I
9
Cultural Component II
10
The Cold Springs Phase
26
The Frenchman Springs Phase
28
Cultural Component III
28
Cultural Components IV and V
30
The Quilomene Bar Phase
34
Cultural Component VI
34
The Cayuse Phase
37
Characteristics
38
Age
47
Ethnography
50
Salishan
54
Stratigraphy
62
The Cayuse I Subphase
68
Subcomponent VIIA
68
Subcomponent VIIB
71
Subcomponent VIIC
74
Subcomponent VIID
76
Subcomponent VIIE
78
The Cayuse II Subphase
80
Subcomponent VIIF
80
Subcomponent VIIG
82
The Cayuse III Subphase
85
Subcomponent VIIH
85
Subcomponent VII-I
88
Subcomponents VIIJ and VIIK
92
Subcomponent VIIL
93
Discussion
95
V.
SUMMATION
101
The Site and Its Assemblages
101
The Projectile Point Sequence
102
VI.
MODELS FOR PLATEAU PREHISTORY
103
The Intermontane Western Tradition
103
An Historical Model
104
Comparing the Models
106
Conclusions
107
VII.
APPENDIX A: MATERIAL CULTURE
109
Typology
109
Chipped Stone Artifacts
111
Stone Tools of Percussion
192
Ground Stone Tools
197
Bone and Antler Artifacts
203
Shell Artifacts of Aboriginal Trade
232
Articles of Historic Trade
239
Materials Utilization
239
VIII.
APPENDIX B: FIELD AND LABORATORY METHODOLOGY
241
IX.
APPENDIX C: PERISHABLES FROM EIGHT ROCKSHELTERS
ON QUILOMENE BAR
by Carolyn Osborne
243
X.
REFERENCES CITED
249
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