CULTURAL SEQUENCE

FOR THE

MID-COLUMBIA AND COLUMBIA PLATEAU
   

        WE INCLUDED THE DIFFERENT NAMES FROM THE VARIOUS UNIVERSITIES INTO COMMON TERMS THAT BOTH THE PROFESSIONALS AND THE AMATEURS ARCHAEOLOGIST CAN UNDERSTAND AND IDENTIFY.  WE HAVE NO REASON TO VOID, REMOVE, OR LEAVE OUT ANY FIELD SCHOOLS OR UNIVERSITY CLASSIFICATION TERM ONLY TO SIMPLIFY TERMS INTO A COMMON USEABLE LANGUAGE.    PLEASE NOTE, THAT MANY TYPES OR STYLES WILL OVERLAP INTO THE PHASES THAT FOLLOW, EXAMPLE CASCADE STYLE DARTS OR POINTS WILL OVERLAP WELL INTO THE EARLY PLATEAU PHASE.  WE ALSO ASK, THE PROFESSIONALS, AMATEURS AND COLLECTORS TO STANDARDIZE TERMS FOR THE SAKE OF ARCHAEOLOGY.    WE AT THE SAME TIME WILL NOT USE "STREET NAME" OR "STREET TERMS" USED IN "OVERSTREET'S GUIDE BOOK"  AND ENCOURAGE ALL TO SUPPORT A STANDARDIZE FORMAT.
   

SUNDALE BASE PHASE:

 LOCATION

CULTURAL PATTERN

TIME PERIOD 

CLIMATE

ARTIFACTS ASSEMBLAGE

 

 

 

 

SITE LOCATION:

FIRST DISCOVERED AT

35-GM-9 IN GILLIAM CO.

& 45-KL-5 NEAR ALDERDALE, CREEK

THE PEOPLE HAVE

SEASONAL ROUNDS

HOUSE PITS ARE COMMON

   EARLY MATT LODGES HAVE

ARRIVED.  MAIN FOOD SOURCE

IS FISHING & GATHERING 

 HOLOCENE 

MID-ALTERTHERMAL

GENERALLY POINTS

ARE BECOMING

SMALLER IN SIZE

STEMS OF POINTS

ARE CONCAVED WITH

 EXPANDING BASE

 

AGE RANGE IS ABOUT 4,000 BP TO 2,500 BP.

 

 

BY ROBERT COLE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON.

FIELD WORK BY L.S. CRESSMAN PhD AND DAVID COLE PhD UNIVERSITY OF OREGON. 

 Photo from the Van Ronk photo collection 2005

 

NOTE: SOME ARCHAEOLOGISTS HAVE EXPRESSED

CONCERN THAT THIS STYLE IS PART OF THE FRENCHMAN SPRINGS AND EARLY

QUILOMENE BAR PHASE. WE BELIEVE THE STYLE CAME A LITTLE LATER AND WAS FOUND

IN LARGER AMOUNTS IN THE MID JOHN DAY RESERVOIR TO UPPER DALLES RESERVOIR.
  45-KL-5: OLD ALDERDALE  TOWNSITE, EAST END OF MOUTH OF ALDER CREEK. HY-WAY 14 KLICKITAT, CO. WA. JDR. 1964 GONE UNKNOWN COLUMBIA PLATEAU 45-KL-26A: WAKEMAP MOUND SITE.NEAR HORSETHIEF  STATE PARK HY-WAY 14 KLICKITAT, CO. WA. DALLES DAM RES. GONE  1950'S      45-KL-8A: CECIL'S ROCK RANCH SITE:  HY-WAY 14 EAST OF ROOSEVELT, WA. KLICKITAT, CO. WA.  JDR GONE 1965
 
    45-KL-5: OLD ALDERDALE  TOWNSITE, EAST END OF MOUTH OF ALDER CREEK. HY-WAY 14 KLICKITAT, CO. WA. JDR. 1964 GONE    
         
         

     
         

35-UM-35: OLD UMATILLA TOWN SITE, UMATILLA, CO. OREGON. JDR 1960'S

45-FR-101: CHIAWANA PARK, WEST END OF PASCO, WA. NEAR RD. 88 TO 90 FRANKLIN CO. WA.. MCNARY DAM RESERVOIR.  1960'S
   

    45-DO-5: MCEROY EDDY SITE, EAST END OF SMALL TOWN OF BRIDGEPORT, WA. DOUGLAS CO. WELL'S DAM RESERVOIR 1950'S
         
         
        45-DO-51: MCEROY EDDY, EAST END OF TOWN OF BRIDGEPORT, WA. DOUGLAS, CO. WA.

QUILOMENE BAR PHASE:

 LOCATION

CULTURAL PATTERN

TIME PERIOD 

CLIMATE

 

ARTIFACTS
ASSEMBLAGE

SITE LOCATION:

45-KT-23 -KITTITAS CO, WA.

 

PATTERNS HAVE WELL

 DEVELOPED INTO

SEASONAL ROUNDS AND

 FISHING & GATHERING

 

END OF ALTERHERMAL

WEATHER IS WARMING

 

LARGE EXPANDING

STEMMED POINTS

THE ARRIVE OF

COMPOSITE HARPOON

SPEAR ALSO SMALLER

TRIANGULAR POINT
 

AGE RANGE IS ABOUT 3,500 BP TO 2,500 BP.

  
 
  FROM: 45-KL-5: OLD ALDERDALE  TOWN SITE, EAST END OF ALDER CREEK. KLICKITAT, CO. WA. JDR- GONE FROM: 45-KL-5: OLD ALDERDALE  TOWN SITE, EAST END OF ALDER CREEK. KLICKITAT, CO. WA. JDR- GONE FROM: 45-KL-5: OLD ALDERDALE TOWN SITE, EAST END OF ALDER CREEK. KLICKITAT, CO. WA. JDR- GONE FROM: 45-KL-5: OLD ALDERDALE  TOWN SITE, EAST END OF ALDER CREEK. KLICKITAT, CO. WA. JDR- GONE
FROM: 45-KL-8A AKS CECIL'S ROCK RANCH, NEAR ROOSEVELT, WA. KLICKITAT CO. WA.19 60'S JDR GONE FROM: 35-MU-???: CASH DOLLAR SITE, FROM: 45-KL-8A AKS CECIL'S ROCK RANCH, NEAR ROOSEVELT, WA. KLICKITAT CO. WA.19 60'S JDR, 1960'S   FROM: 45-KL-8A AKS CECIL'S ROCK RANCH, NEAR ROOSEVELT, WA. KLICKITAT CO. WA.19 60'S JDR, 1960'S
      FROM: 45-KL-5: OLD ALDERDALE  TOWN SITE, EAST END OF ALDER CREEK. KLICKITAT, CO. WA. JDR- GONE UNKNOWN COLUMBIA

RIVER.
         
         
         

     
         
 

BY: CHARLES M. NELSON AT WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY 

 Photo from the Van Ronk photo collection 2005

  

 EARLY PLATEAU 1 PHASE or CLASSIC I

 LOCATION

CULTURAL PATTERN

TIME PERIOD 

CLIMATE

ARTIFACTS ASSEMBLAGE

THE

ENTIRE MID-COLUMBIA

RIVER FROM UPPER 

VANTAGE TO DALLES.

FISHING & GATHERING

WELL DEFINED VILLAGES, TWINED BASKETRY CORDAGE

OLIVELLA BEADS AND

DENTALIUM SHELL BEADS

RIVERINE RIVER RESIDENTIAL 

EARLY MESOTHERMAL

HOLOCENE

PRESENT TIME

 EARLY TERRITORY

EXPANSION

SMALLER CONTRACTING

STEMMED POINTS VERY

AND FISHING HARPOONS,

SOME EARLY FISH WEIRS

LARGE TRIANGULAR KNIVES

SMALLER SCRAPERS, LONG

EYED NEEDLES COASTAL

 

AGE RANGE IS ABOUT 2,800 BP TO 2,000 BP.

 

 

BY, DAVID G. RICE WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY-PULLMAN

         
         
         
   
         
     
         
         
     

       
     
         
     
         

PHASE: MID-PLATEAU II  

LOCATION

CULTURAL PATTERN

TIME PERIOD 

CLIMATE

ARTIFACTS ASSEMBLAGE

 

 

 

 

FROM THE MID-COLUMBIA

RIVER TO UPPER RIVER

AREA NEAR UPPER VANTAGE, WA.

PLANK HOUSE ARRIVES

ON THE LOWER MID- COLUMBIA RIVER AT DALLES, OR.

FISHING & GATHERING

CARVED STONE PESTLES

MAULS, DECORATED PAINT

POTS.  MANY COMPOSITE HARPOON 

SPEARS AND LINGUISTIC DIVERSITY.

PRESENT CLIMATE

LATE HOLOCENE 

SMALLER

EXPANDING POINTS

WITH CORNER NOTCHING

MANY CORNER NOTCHED

WITH LARGE EXPANDING

WINGS. LARGE PENTAGONAL'S,

A FEW LARGE LANCEOLATE,

BANDIT NET SINKERS, LARGE

NETS FOR FISHING WITH SINKERS

 

 

 

 

 

AGE RANGE IS ABOUT 2,000 BP TO 800 BP.

 
         
         
         
         
         
   
         
   
 
   
         
         
         
       
         

PHASE: LATE PLATEAU III or Classic III

 LOCATION

CULTURAL PATTERN

TIME PERIOD 

CLIMATE

ARTIFACTS ASSEMBLAGE

SITE LOCATION:

THE ENTIRE MID- COLUMBIA RIVER

WASHINGTON STATE.

SEMI-PERMANENT RIVER

VILLAGES WITH YEARLY ROUNDS.  MANY CARVED BONE & STONE TOOLS WITH FIGURINES, PIPES, PENDANTS & OTHER CARVED AND GROUND STONE. FISHING-GATHERING LATE PERIOD OF THIS PHASE ARRIVAL OF THE HORSE 1690'S TO 1700'S.

PRESENT CLIMATE

LATE HOLOCENES

POINTS AND DARTS ARE EVEN SMALLER WITH EXPANDING WINGED & CORNER REMOVED AS WELL SIDE NOTCHED ARROWHEADS PENTAGONAL KNIVES, LARGE CRESCENT KNIVES WITH BONE HANDLES, NET WEIGHTS, ARRIVAL OF THE DAGGER POINTS, BONE HARPOONS SPEARS

 

AGE RANGE IS ABOUT 1,000 BP To Historic.

 

 

MOST OF THE N.W.  UNIVERSITIES HAVE DONE FIELD WORK ON THIS TIME PERIOD.

 Photo from the Van Ronk photo collection 2005
         
         
 
         
     
         
         
     
         

HISTORIC PHASE:

 LOCATION

CULTURAL PATTERN

TIME PERIOD 

CLIMATE

ARTIFACTS ASSEMBLAGE

HISTORIC PERIOD BEGINS WITH THE ARRIVAL OF THE EURO-AMERICANS AT ABOUT 1780'S TO 1810'S AND INTO THE EARLY 1960's

FISHING & GATHERING TO EUROPEAN-AMERICAN TRADE MATERIALS SUCH IRON KNIVES, ARROWHEADS GLASS BEADS, GUNS, GUN POWDER, TRAPS AND OTHER TRADE ARTIFACTS. 

PRESENT WEATHER

MOST OF THE LITHIC ART AND ARTIFACTS REMAIN THE SAME AS IN THE PLATEAU III.  SO IN LOOKING FOR EXAMPLES LOOK IN THE LATE PLATEAU III

 

AGE RANGE IS ABOUT 9,500 BP TO 6,000 BP.

 

 
         
         
         
         
         
         
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