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A Chronology of Upper Willamette Valley, Oregon, Prehistory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

John R. White
John R. White*
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, OH 44555
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Abstract

On the basis of an analysis of data from 34 of the most thoroughly examined sites in the Upper Willamette Valley of Oregon, a chronological framework is devised that divides the prehistory of the region into five major periods: Period I, ranging between 8000 and 6000 B.C.; Period II, between 6000 and 4000 B.C.; Period III, between 4000 and 250 B.C.; Period IV, 250 B.C. to A.D. 1700; and Period V, the protohistoric and historic period dating between 1700 and approximately 1850. The bracketing dates for these periods are based on a combination of chronometric and relative dating techniques, including radiocarbon dating, tree-ring counts, typological comparison, pollen analysis, cross-dating with historic artifacts, and stratigraphy.

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American Antiquity , Volume 44 , Issue 3 , July 1979 , pp. 556 - 568
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1979

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