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A Tale of Two Sites D epartment of Anthrop olo gy Spring 1997 A tale of two sites by Peter Mehringer The announcementsread, "Great BasinArchaeologi DesertSeries points of black obsidian,knives of white cherl, cal Field School,Steens Mountain Region: Past Cultures and fragmentsof bovid bonesand teeth.Casual collectors and Environmentsof SoutheastemOreson." Students ar- were visiting the site and they could removeartifacts crucial rived from both coasts,the to our understanding.Still, did Midwest, Montana,Oregon, Lost Dune hold undisturbedburied Washington,Canada, and a few i,,,1 deposits;if so, could they be dated; from WSU. They joined gradu- ,1,,',:',were the bovid remainsfrom bison ate studentsBill Lyons and .lll or cattle;and, how do we explain Robert Wegener, and myself, ,,,,''lso much Shoshoneanbrown ware to learn archaeologicalsurvey, l,' pottery100 miles beyond its antic- excavation,mapping and labo- ipatedrange in northemNevada or ratory methods,and aboutthe ,,,, Idaho? recordof prehistoricpeoples The 1995field schoolexca- and environments. ., vationsanswered the initial ques- 'rr Someof you probablyre- tions.Some time between300 and memberback nearly 20 years 500 yearsago Lost Dune had been to the SteensMountain Prehis- ,: a bisonbutchering camp. Bill Ly- tory Project-a combinedef- ons' dissertation--duewithin the fort by faculty and students r,, year-will addressthe many inter- from the Universitiesof Ore- gon,Washington, and Wash- :": tery,stone aftifacts, and the human ington State.You may evenre- dimensionsof this seemingly PeteMehringer and.fieldschool student call the luxuriant Malheur out-of-placeassemblage. Ehrin Milner excayatinpat Skull CreekDunes Marshes,aspen-clad Steens The 1996field schoolbegan Mountain, FrenchglenStore, by helping Bill Lyons at Lost and the extraordinarystratigra- Dune.Then, it shiftedendeavors to phy and arlifact concentrationsexposed in CatlowValley's Skull CreekDunes, Catlow Valley,where Steens Mountain '81). Skull CreekDunes. Ken PetersenGh.D. GeneHat- PrehistoryProject excavators had documentedmore than '82), '85), tori (Ph.D. andespecially Peter Wigand (Ph.D. 8000years of occasionaloccupation. In continuingto visit along with membersof the 1911-82Palynology and Desert the Skull Creeksites after the 1981excavations, we wit- WestPrehistory classes, all pafiicipatedin the inaugural nessedreceding dune faces where nature's leveling forces studies.The areahas remained a focus of classfield trips were exposing,eroding, and mixing 4000 yearsof human andmy research. leavings.One suchthreatened site was a 2000-year-old Burns District BLM archaeologist,Scott Thomas, and meter-deepmidden tested in 19Bl by SteensMountain his predecessorBruce Crespinplotted a courseof recovery Projectarchaeologists. This middenbecame the subjectof andresearch for two critical sites-Lost Dune and Skull field schoolstudy and Rob Wegener's M.A. thesis. CreekDunes. In 1981Scott had discoveredthe Lost Dune Now for the restof the story-a return to Skull Creek site eastof the Malheur NationalWildlife Refuge,where Dunesbecame especially attractive after an alerl, sharp-eyed '85) Carla Burnside (B.A. is now the archaeologist.Lost studentspied a pottery sherdduring the fall '95 DesertWest Dune yieldedOregon's largest known collectionof brown field trip. Despite16 yearsof intensearchaeological attention '96. warepottery. Surface scatters of pot sherdsaccompanied this was a first! In March WSU studentvolunteers WashingtonState UniversiU $ I Capacitycrowd enjoysEvans'lecture on L.V McWhorter The Museum hasbeen busy this year with several an ethnomusicologicalstudy of centralAfrican Pygmies. specialprograms for the public as well aslots of work be- As a resultof an on-goingcooperative agreement be- hind the scenesbringing the archaeologicalcollections into tweenthe Walla Walla usableorder. Fall semester'shighlight was a Museum- District of the US Army sponsoredlecture, exhibit and Corpsof Engineersand receptionhonoring the WSU CNA, forly percentof Pressrelease of SteveEvans' the archaeologicalcol- biographyof L.V. McWhorter, lectionsfrom the lower Voice of the Old Wolf. The SnakeRiver regionhave Museumholds a fabulouscol- beeninventoried and cu- lectionof Plateauethnographic rated suchthat we have artifacts,including many relics a computerizeddatabase of the Nez PerceWar of 1811. allowingfor item-by-item which were given to WSU by identificationand access. 1". the McWhorter family. Several It is now possibleto 1 family membersattended the studysome of themost Harvest Moon StevenRoss Evans programwhich so exceededthe imporlantarchaeological room capacitythat we had to collectionsrepresenting the prehistoryof the southeastern turn someaway. Events scheduled for the spring semester Plateau.Work sponsoredby the National Park Servicehas includetwo presentationssponsored by theWashington resultedin the samekind of accessfor two collectionsfrom Commissionfor the HumanitiesInquiring Minds Program. the MosesLake area,45GR27 and 45GR30,excavated by We will be hosting"Legends of the Longhouse"by Har- R.D. Daughertyin 1948and 1950.Individuals interested in vestMoon, a Quinault ambassador,for elementaryage thesecollections should contact the Museumfor more infor- children.Also part of the Inquiring Minds Programwill be mation. BrianPertl's "Singing to theForest, Dancing to theMoon," -Mary Collins A tale of two sites W numberof tiny bits of stoneand bone. retumedwith Rob Wegenerand me; Much to Prof. Carl Gustafson'sdelight we found more pottery and a (or horror),Rob Wegenerhas separated 500-year-oldbison skull as well-an- about32,000 bone fragments from last other first for Skull CreekDunes! summer'sdiggings; one-half of these Thanksto the BLM firefighters arecharred. Though most bonecame and their pumpertrucks we washed from blacktailedjackrabbits, the peo- most excavatedsediments from both ple of Skull CreekDunes also took a sitesthrough l/16 inch meshscreens. varietyof smallanimals, birds and hsh, This, of course,led to a nightmarish as well as pronghom,mountain sheepand deer.Rob is continu- ing his investigationswith de- scriptionof a similarly huge sampleof stonetools and deb- itage. Now that field studiesare completed,samples sorted, and BiLlLyons peers through the analyseswell underway,the fa- transitat LostDune. tigued yet unflaggingresearch- ers a"rereporting their findings. Conf'erenceand journal publications They presentedpapers at last arenot far behind.Anthropology M.A. October'sGreat Basin Anthro- studentBrian Harveyis going a step (L to R) Pete Mehringer student Ehrin pology Conferenceand at de- furlher in bringingOregon archaeology Milner and Rob Wegenerexcavate an Elko partmentcolloquia. Updates to the public. Brian, who dug with the point (inset) Dunes daft at the Skull Creek will comeatApril's Northwest midden. W Fromthe Chair'sdesk The chair'sdesk looks nofth acrossthe Tenell Mall from the first floor of College Hall. After one semesterof sitting hereI am becomingaccustomed to the view, which is sharedby a dehantwooden rooster left, apparently,by GeoffGamble, who this year is wSU's Interim Provost.Less tangible but much appreciatedare the many legacies of my immediatepredecessor, John Bodley, who leavesthis position after four years to retufll to full-time teachingand research in the Department.Under his leadership, '97,the as of spring Departmenthas grown to 60 undergraduatemajors and 65 enrolled graduatestudents. Being chair gives me a perspectiveon the departmentthat I have neverhad be- fore. I now appreciate,for example,the vastamount of work donewith goodhumor by the ofFrcestaff (LeAnn Couch, Joan Pubols, Annette Bednar, and Karene Kramer). I can seeas well how hard the faculty works to meet studentneeds while maintainingimpressive records of scholarshipand outside service. I would like to thank particular Tim Kohler in William Lipe, who stepsdown from the presidencyof the Societyfor AmericanArchaeology this spring,forrepresenting us with distinction. Congratulationsas well to Peter Mehringer, who is servingin his secondyear (of three)as a wSU Meyer DistinguishedProfessor. Many of you were contactedby phonein Januaryfor newsto sharewith other alumnae/i(see below). you can now keepin touch with the departmenton the Web (of course!)at http://www.wsu.edu:80801-anthro/nthhome.html. Within the University,and within the contextof our profession,this departmentis very much like the little rooster in the window.We may be small,but somehowagainst all oddswe do greatthings. Pleaseconsider using the enve- lope in this newslettertokeep us crowing. -- Tim Kohler AnthropologyAlumni: the world is theiroyster AnthropologyAlumni leadvery interestinglives, around the the new California StateUniversity Monterey Bay campus. nofthwest and aroundthe world. Here'swhat they've told us Their publishingbusiness specializes in archaeologicaltopics, they'redoing. includingreprints of a numberof WSU reports.A comprehen- Thanksto everyonewho spokewith Gregg Graber on the sivelist of publicationsis availableon their web site,at http:// phone,or sente-mail. The response was so positive, we could www.coyotepress.com. only '71), fit half in the newsletterthis year.Look for more newsin JamesChatters (8.A. Tri-Cities,Washington, owns AnthroNews'98. andruns Applied Paleoscience '86), Technologies.He hasrecently B.D.Adams (B.A. Everett,Washington, hasjust sta(ed publisheda numberof afticles,and has been completing projects a newjob with the SnohomishCounty Sheriff'sDepartment. for theU.S. Forest Service '91), andthe Colps of Engineers,among EllyAmade (M.A. Boulder,Colorado,
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