Book
Contributions to the prehistory of the Columbia Plateau: a report on excavations in the Palouse and Craig Mountain sections
[s.n.] • (9) • Published In 1962 • Pages: ii, 86 , plates
By: Butler, B. Robert.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Butler reports on excavations on the Columbia Plateau: four sites in Camas Prairie, Idaho (Weis Rockshelter, Cooper's Ferry, McLaughlin's Flat, and Picture Cave) and one site along the Snake River, Washington (Ash Cave). Four sites contain assemblages that date to the Cascade time period, which Butler calls the Craig Mountain phase in this report (Weis Rockshelter, Cooper's Ferry, Picture Cave, and Ash Cave). Most of this report centers on the excavations at Weis Rockshelter. Butler was interested in further defining the Old Cordilleran culture which centered around the Cascade point. (Studies of the Old Cordilleran culture and Cascade point led later researchers to define the Cascade culture.) Butler believed the Old Cordilleran culture may have originated around The Dalles on the lower Columbia River and spread east and perhaps west from there. The importance of Ash Cave is that it lies halfway between The Dalles and Weis Rockshelter and dates between the two sites.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Topography and geology
- Fauna
- Bone, horn, and shell technology
- Lithic industries
- Weapons
- General tools
- Cultural stratigraphy
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Cascade
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2001
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Plains and Plateau
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sarah Berry; 2000
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1958, 1961, 1962
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 8900 BP - 3490 BP
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Columbia Plateau; Idaho and Washington, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- by B. Robert Butler
- Errata slip inserted
- Includes bibliographical references ( p. 82-86)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 63063435
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Indians of North America--Columbia Plateau--Antiquities