ARCHY 320   Northwest Archaeology

 

 

Instructor:                    Dr. Julie Stein

Office:                           Denny Hall, Room 139, Department of Anthropology

Phone:                          543-9603

Office Hours:                 by appointment (use email) and after every lecture

email                            jkstein@u.washington.edu

 

 

Teaching Assistants

Phoebe Anderson

Office:                             Denny Hall

Office Hours:                 To be announced on web site, or by appointment

email                            phoebea@u.washington.edu

 

                             Becky Kessler

Office:                             Denny Hall

Office Hours:                 To be announced on web site, or by appointment

                                    rkessler@u.washington.edu

 

 

web address:             http://courses.washington.edu/archy320/

 

 

CLUE session:          Mary Gates Hall

                                    Every Wednesday night, 6:30 to 8:00PM (room assigned in Commons)

 

 

 

Course Description:

The contents of this course will prepare you to understand and evaluate archaeological news in your community. You will be able to appreciate the significance and politics of archaeological discoveries as well as evaluate the role of the media in disseminating news about those discoveries. You will learn how to assess the meaning of artifacts that you may find in your region, the kinds of information available on the web, and the Federal, State, and Municipal antiquity regulations applying to all citizens of this community. You will be reading news coverage, visiting museums, and learning to identify artifacts for their functions and age. The goal of the class is to prepare you for a lifetime of appreciating archaeology, not for memorizing what exactly happened in the past.

 

 

Course Assessments:

 

  • First midterm (answer 2 out of 4 possible questions, 6 pages maximum length, take-home)

(20% of your grade)

handed out Thurs. Nov. 4;  due Friday Nov. 12 (hand in to box outside Denny Hall room 139)

 

  • 1-page review and analysis of news articles about archaeology (not obituaries).

(10% of your grade).

 

1st   news article #1 review due           Tuesday, Oct. 12,

2nd  news article #2 review due           Tuesday, Oct. 19,

3rd   news article #3 review due           Thursday, Nov. 18 for AE, AF, AG, AH

4th   news article #4 review due           Thursday, Dec. 2 for AA, AB, AC, AD

 

Randy Hertzler is a librarian helping the class. Email him if you have trouble finding articles. [rhertz@u.washington.edu]

 

  • Web Scenario – you post at least two opinions to the class web site (chat room) concerning the two archaeological scenarios. Scenarios will be announced in class with further directions and due dates.

(10% of your grade).

 

  • 5 page summary of original (Northwest) site excavation report (examples listed on separate page, with others available in library). Reports not on the list must be approved by instructor.

(10% of your grade)

for people enrolled in sections AA, AB, AC, AD, these are due Thursday, Nov. 18

for people enrolled in sections AE, AF, AG, AH, these are due Thursday, Dec. 2 for

 

to find an appropriate site report see directions from Librarian Randy Hertzler.

 

 

http://faculty.washington.edu/rhertz/archy320/

 

 

  • Sections (every Monday; in the Burke Museum Classroom – go to loading dock at back of museum, enter door and classroom immediately to your left)

(30% of your grade)

 

 

  • Second midterm (in class – short answer/fill in blank)

 

This examination will test your knowledge of particular information about the sites. Each student should keep track of each site’s name, excavator, its locations, dates of occupation, artifacts found there, and interpretation. A spreadsheet (a blank one will be available on class website) will be developed during the CLUE session.

 

(20% of your grade)   (Thursday Dec. 9)

 

 

Extra Credit: There are various options for extra credit. Each of these activities will be worth the equivalent of about 5 points.

 

 

·         Visit a museum that contains information about Northwest Archaeology and write a 1 to 2 page typed summary of your impressions. (Examples of museums are given on last page of this syllabus and web page. Burke Museum does not count, as you will be visiting the exhibits to answer questions raised in sections).

 

·         Attend CLUE sessions on Weds. evening.

 

·         Sort shell midden that was excavated on Lopez Island in summer of 2004. Sorting takes place in the Burke Museum and volunteers will get extra credit for this class if they put in at least 10 hours of sorting. Shelby Anderson (shelbya@u.washington.edu) is coordinating this effort. Please email her directly.

 

·         Create your own archaeological scenario and submit it to Julie Stein, who will consider posting it for web discussion by class. (Must be submitted before November 11).

 

·         Watch a documentary about archaeology and analyze it by addressing, in a 1 to 2 page typed review, the following questions:

 

1.       Include your name and the name the documentary in the heading. Where did you see the documentary (Discovery Channel, class, other)?

2.       Who is the archaeologist(s)? Describe the race, gender, and socioeconomic standing of the archaeologists? What label is used to describe the profession and “authority” of the individual? Who is the narrator (guess if you cannot tell)?

3.       How the people whose past is being excavated are depicted? Are there reconstructions of these people, or re-enactments of the event? Are the people of the past educated or superstitious? Do they speak?

4.       How are interpretations about the past made? What data do the archaeologists use? Does the documentary suggest that the techniques being used are highly technical and specialized, and ones that the average viewer could understand?

5.       Has more than one opinion been given for the problem? Is there a debate? Are you given the data on which opinion is based?

6.       Do you note any techniques used by the director to increase the “distance” between you and the research being described? (Where is the research taking place?)

7.       How did the director “sell” the spectacular nature of this archaeological find or discovery? Did the narrator use words like “the earliest, oldest, first, or best”

8.       Does the documentary make archaeology appear to be an attractive profession?

 

 

 

REQUIRED READING:   -   WEBSITES, BOOKS, and ARTICLES

 

 

Websites:

 

 

Also required (as references) are the following web addresses. These references will assist you with answers to exams and assignments.

 

Federal Laws and State Laws

http://www.oahp.wa.gov/pages/Archaeology/Laws.htm    This website contains both Federal and State laws.

 

 

Newspaper search engines are found on the library site of:

http://www.lib.washington.edu/mcnews/articles.html

 

 

Some especially good search engine for newspaper articles about archaeology can be found at

 

Lexis-Nexis (use Guided News Search and select stories that are 5 or 10 years, or even older)

 

Pacific Northwest Regional Newspapers & Periodicals Index (Papers that cover all the WA)

 

National Newspapers (NY Times, LA Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, etc.)

 

 

Books:

 

 

The following books are recommended for this class. The bookstore has purchased some copies for the students who either plan to continue in archaeology or for those who have an avocation for local archaeology.

 

Stein, Julie K.

   2000    Exploring Coast Salish Prehistory: The Archaeology of San Juan Island, University of Washington Press.

 

Suttles, Wayne (editor)

   1990    Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 7 Northwest Coast, Smithsonian Press, Washington D. C.

 

Walker, D. (editor)

   1998    Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 12 Plateau, Smithsonian Press, Washington D. C.

 

 

Articles arranged by weekly topics:

 

 

Readings are organized under topics and in sequential order as introduced in class. The week in which the topic is introduced is given next to the topic. Correct answers to midterm take-home exams will require that you supplement lecture material with the readings listed under these topics.

 

The articles will be provided as copies on E-Reserve, and will come from above books, as well as others.

 

E-Reserve website: http://catalog.lib.washington.edu/search/r?SEARCH=archaeology+320

 
Peopling of New World and Northwest (reading list for week 1 and 2)

 

Ames, K. M. and H. D. G. Maschner

   1999    Peoples of the Northwest Coast: Their Archaeology and Prehistory. Thames and Hudson, London.

pp. 57-66

 

Carlson, Roy L.

   1990    Cultural antecedents. In Handbook of North American Indians,  Northwest Coast: Volume 7, edited by Wayne Suttles, pp. 60-69. Smithsonian Institution, Washington D. C.

 

Kirk, Ruth and Richard D. Daugherty

   1978    Exploring Washington Archaeology. University of Washington Press, Seattle, WA.

pp. 25-44 (mostly pictures)  Early Man in Washington.

 

 

Early Period  (Northwest Coast Prehistory and Plateau) (reading list for week 3)

 

Ames, K. M. and H. D. G. Maschner

   1999    Peoples of the Northwest Coast: Their Archaeology and Prehistory. Thames and Hudson, London. (pages 67-86)

 

Matson, R. G.

   1996    The Old Cordilleran Component at the Glenrose Cannery Site. In Early Human Occupation in British Columbia, edited by Roy L. Carlson and Luke Dalla Bona, pp. 111-122. University of British Columbia Press, Vancouver, B. C.

 

Mitchell, Donald and David L. Pokotylo

   1996    Early Period Components at the Milliken Site. In Early Human Occupation in British Columbia, edited by Roy L. Carlson and Luke Dalla Bona, pp. 65-82. University of British Columbia Press, Vancouver, B. C.

 

 

Culture Type (Ethnography of Northwest Coast) (reading list for week 4)

 

Suttles, Wayne

   1990    Central Coast Salish. In Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 7 Northwest Coast, edited by Wayne Suttles, pp. 453-475. Smithsonian Institution, Washington D. C.

 

Stein, Julie K.

   2000    Exploring Coast Salish Prehistory: The Archaeology of San Juan Island, University of Washington Press.

pp. 11-14           Introduction (How Archaeologists Reconstruct the Past)

 

 

Northwest Coast Prehistory (Middle and Late Period) (reading list for week 5, 6, 7 and 8)

 

Matson, R. G. and Gary Coupland

   1995    The Prehistory of the Northwest Coast. Academic Press, San Diego, California.

pp.   97-117       St. Mungo Phase

pp. 145-183       Locarno Beach Phase

pp. 200-228       Marpole Phase

pp. 267-271       Gulf of Georgia (San Juan) Phase

 

Mitchell, Donald H.

   1990    Prehistory of the Coasts of Southern British Columbia and Northern Washington. In Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 7 Northwest Coast, edited by Wayne Suttles, pp. 340-358. Smithsonian Institution, Washington D. C.

 

Stein, Julie K.

   2000    Exploring Coast Salish Prehistory: The Archaeology of San Juan Island, University of Washington Press.

pp. 15-50           Cattle Point Site

pp. 51-101         English Camp Site

 

 

Plateau Ethnography and Prehistory (reading list for week 9 and 10)

 

Ames, K. M. and H. D. G. Maschner

   1999    Peoples of the Northwest Coast: Their Archaeology and Prehistory. Thames and Hudson, London.

pp. 87-96

pp. 103-112

 

Chatters, James, and David L. Pokotylo

1998        Prehistory: Introduction. In Handbook of North American Indians. Volume 12 Plateau,

edited by Deward E. Walker, Jr., pp. 73-80., Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C.

 

Hunn, Eugene S.

1990    Nch'i-Wana "The Big River": Mid-Columbia Indians and Their Land. University of Washington Press, Seattle, WA. (Chapter 1 Introduction and Chap 2 History; page 3-57)

 

Andrefsky Jr., W.

   2004    Materials and Contexts for a Culture History of the Columbia Plateau. Complex Hunter-Gatherers: Evolution and Organization of Prehistoric Communities on the Plateau of Northwestern North America. W. C. Prentiss and I. Kuijt. Salt Lake City, The University of Utah Press: 23-35.

 

 

SOME SUGGESTED SITE REPORTS

 

For people enrolled in sections AA, AB, AC, AD, these are due Thursday, Nov. 18.

For people enrolled in sections AE, AF, AG, AH, these are due Thursday, Dec. 2.

 

 

C    means site is located in Northwest Coastal Region

P    means site is located in Plateau Region

 

 

Blukis Onat, A. R. (editor)           C

   2001    Archaeological Investigations at Stuwe'yuq - Site 45KI464, Tolt River, King County, Washington. Prepared under contract #SPU#DC 98097, Seattle Public Utilities/CDM. Philip and Seattle Public Utilities/Boas, Inc. [BOAS, INC, Seattle], Seattle, Washington.

 

Burley, David V.                         C

   1989    Senewelets: Culture History of the Nanaimo Coast Salish and the False Narrows Midden. Royal British Columbia Museum, Memoir No. 2, Victoria, B. C.

 

Campbell, Sarah K.                    C

   1981    The Duwamish No. 1 Site: A Lower Puget Sound Shell Midden. University of Washington, Office of Public Archaeology. Institute for Environmental Studies Research Reports 1, Seattle, Washington.

 

Cressman, Luther S., David L. Cole, Wilbur A. Davis, Thomas M. Newman and Daniel J. Scheans                            P

   1960    Cultural Sequences at The Dalles, Oregon: A Contribution to Pacific Northwest Prehistory. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 50(10), Philadelphia.

 

Hicks, B.                       P

   2004     Marmes Rockshelter: A Final Report on 11,000 Years of Cultural Use. Pullman, WA, Washington State University Press.

           

Holmes, Brian                P

   1966    The Schaake Site -- A New Study, Archaeology of the Wanapum Reservoir. Master of Arts Thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.

 

King, A. R.                    C

   1950    Cattle Point: A Stratified Site in the Southern Northwest Coast Region. American Antiquity Memoir 7, supplement to vol. 15: 1-94.

 

Larson, Lynn and Dennis Lewarch                       C

   1995     The Archaeology of West Point, Seattle, Washington: 4,000 Years of Hunter-Fisher-Gatherer Land Use in Southern Puget Sound. King County Department of Metropolitan Services, Archaeology Report, Seattle, Washington.

 

Nelson, Charles M.                    P

   1969    The Sunset Creek Site (45KT28) and its Place in Plateau Prehistory. Reports of Investigations 47, Laboratory of Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA.

 

Mitchell, Donald H.                     C

   1971    Archaeology of the Gulf of Georgia area, a natural region and its culture type. Syesis vol. 4, supplement 1, pages 75-228.

 

Rice, David                    P

   1972    The Windust Phase in Lower Snake River Prehistory. Report of Investigation No. 50, Laboratory of Anthropology, Pullman, WA.

 

 

            Samuels, S. R.              C

   1991    Ozette Archaeological Project Research Reports, Volume I, House Structure and Floor Midden. National Park Service Pacific Northwest Regional Office, and Washington State University, Department of Anthropology, Reports of Investigation 63, Pullman, Washington.

 

Sanger, David                P

   1970    The Archaeology of the Lochnore-Nesikep locality, British Columbia. Syesis 3, Supplement 1:1-146.

 

 

Museums with Northwest Archaeology Exhibits  (for extra credit)

 

 

Plateau

 

Columbia Gorge Interpretive Center (Stevenson, WA)

Maryhill Museum of Art (Goldendale, WA)

North Central Washington Museum (Wenatchee, WA)

Rocky Reach Dam (north of Wenatchee on the west side of the Columbia River)

Chelan County Historical Museum (Cashmere, WA)

Washington State University Museum of Anthropology (Pullman, WA)

Adam East Museum (Moses Lake, WA)

Washington State History Museum (Tacoma, WA)- see East Wenatchee Clovis artifacts

 

 

Northwest Coast

 

University of British Columbia- Museum of Anthropology (Vancouver, B.C.)

Royal Museum of British Columbia (Victoria, B.C.)

Sequim Historical Society Museum (Sequim, WA)- see Manis Mastodon exhibit

 

 

Tribal Museums

 

Colville Tribal Museum (Coulee Dam, WA)

Makah Tribal Museum (Neah Bay, WA)

Suquamish Museum (Suquamish, WA- Kitsap County on Bainbridge Island)

Yakima Nation Cultural Center (Toppenish, WA)

 

 

Historic Archaeology

 

Fort Clatsop National Monument (Astoria, OR)

Fort Walla Walla Museum (Walla Walla, WA)

Fort Vancouver National Historic Site (Vancouver, WA)

Sacajawea Interpretive Center (Sacajawea State Park- near Pasco, WA)

Whitman Mission National Historic Site (Walla Walla, WA)