"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...

"Cultural Resource Management (CRM) refers to the discovery, evaluation, and preservation of culturally significant sites, focusing on but not limited to the archaeological and historical. CRM stems from the National Historic Preservation Act, passed in 1966. In 1986, archaeologists reviewed the practice of CRM in the Great Basin. They concluded that it mainly was a system of finding, flagging, and avoiding -- a means of keeping sites and artifacts...

"The University of Arizona ran archaeological field schools at Point of Pines Pueblo between 1947 and 1960. This pueblo is an 800-room site occupied between AD 1250-1400 in the Mogollon Highlands of central Arizona. Although Stone previously published evidence for this Pueblo being a Mogollon multiethnic community with Kayenta migrants (Stone 2015), descriptions of the complete architectural and excavation data have never been published. These remain...

"This manuscript is based on excavations of three prehistoric sites located in western Washington, near the town of Granite Falls, and classified as The Old Cordilleran Culture/Tradition or OCT. This cultural designation was initially based on archaeological observations by B. Robert Butler in 1961. The three archaeological sites were designated as part of the Olcott Complex, a lithic industry and the name given to OCT material in western Washington....

"Swordfish Cave is a well-known rock art site located on Vandenberg Air Force Base in south central California. Named for the swordfish painted on its wall, the cave is a sacred Chumash site. It was under threat from various processes and required measures to conserve it. Nearly all of the cave's interior was excavated to create a rock art viewing area. That effort revealed previously unknown rock art and made it possible to closely examine how early...