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The Ethnohistory Of Baker Cabin, A Clackamas County Pioneer Site, V. Claire Woodward May 1975

The Ethnohistory Of Baker Cabin, A Clackamas County Pioneer Site, V. Claire Woodward

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Baker Cabin, a pioneer log structure, is located on privately owned property near the community of Carver, Oregon. According to traditional accounts the cabin has existed continuously on this site since its construction in 1856. Archaeological excavations of the cabin's foundation and the surrounding area uncovered date-able artifacts and a second foundation with an associated well. Analysis of the artifacts associated with the present cabin foundation indicate a post-1870 construction date those associated with the second foundation and its well indicate an 1850’s occupation.

Four hypotheses that are explored in this paper can be derived from the interpretation of all …


A Functional Interpretation Of Pottery From Batan Island, Philippines, Joanne M. Laetsch May 1972

A Functional Interpretation Of Pottery From Batan Island, Philippines, Joanne M. Laetsch

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This thesis is a report on a pottery analysis which was carried out in the laboratory of the Department of Anthropology at Portland State University. The earthenware materials involved were collected from three surface sites on Batan Island, Philippines, during the summer of 1969.

The interpretation of these potteries was based upon the direct-historical approach to archaeological research. The use of this method was proposed after a cursory examination of the earthenwares revealed certain general similarities between the archaeological potteries and the ethnographically-known wares produced in the area at the present time. One of the sites was a known habitation, …