Table of Contents

1. Project Background

2. Research Design
Cultural Chronology
Past Environment & Climate Change
Site Function
Trade
Human Remains/Burials

3. Environmental Overview
Geological Setting
Glacial-era Floods & Tephra Chronology
Climatic & Vegetation History
Late Pleistocene
Latest Pleistocene/Early Holocene
Middle Holocene
Early Late Holocene
Late Holocene
Vegetation
Faunal Resources

4. Cultural Context
Prehistory
Ethnographic Period
Historic Period

5. Stratigraphy & Site Formation Processes
Geomorphic Context
Rockshelter Stratigraphy
Colluvial Slope Stratigraphy
Floodplain Stratigraphy
Site Formation

6. Features
Rockshelter
Hearths/Fire Pits
Storage Pit
Floodplain

7. Human Remains

8. Lithic Debitage & Formed Tools
Raw Materials
Reduction Technology
Obsidian X-ray Fluorescence
Blood Residue Analysis
Lithic Technology
Obsidian Sourcing
Blood Residue Analysis
Culture-History
Index Fossils & Tool Functions
Cascade Technique
Gravels & Travels
Comparisons With Other Sites

9. Modified Bone & Antler
Manufacturing Technology & Function
Use-Life Classes
Modified Bone Collection
Changes Through Time
Comparison of Windust Phase Floodplain & Rockshelter Deposits

10. Faunal Remains
Marmes Fauna
Taxa Identified
Intersite Analyses

11. Fish Remains
Comparison of Rockshelter & Floodplain Fish

12. Invertebrate Fauna (Shellfish)
Results by Stratum

13. Botanical Materials
Temporal Considerations
Contaminants

14. Summary of Results

15. Interpretation
Cultural Chronology
Trade
Past Environment & Climate Change
Site Function
Subsistence
Marmes Rockshelter in a Regional Perspective

About the Author

Brent Hicks is vice president of cultural resources management and principal archaeologist for Historical Research Associates, Inc. Skilled in all aspects of research and fieldwork in both historic and prehistoric archaeology, as well as lithic artifact analysis, he has over three decades of experience in cultural resources management, and has conducted and managed archaeological investigations in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and California.

Reviews

"[Marmes Rockshelter is] a major contribution to the archaeology of western North America."--Journal of Anthropological Research

"All serious students of Northwest history and archaeology need this book."--Statesman Review

"Certainly one of the best-written reports I've seen in some time."--Tri-City Herald

"Everything that has been discovered about this site and the people who used it is here."--Statesman Review

"If you have a serious interest in archaeology of this region, then you should have this book."--Tri-City Herald