Document Type
Thesis
Date of Degree Completion
Spring 2016
Degree Name
Master of Science (MS)
Department
Resource Management
Committee Chair
Patrick T. McCutcheon
Second Committee Member
Steven Hackenberger
Third Committee Member
Craig S. Revels
Abstract
Investigators of the Mid-Plateau archaeological record have interpreted artifact deposits in their environmental settings as evidence of human land use labeled as site types. Land use models consisting of cultural and environmental variables were developed from those studies. Those variables were compared to a sample of archaeological records located in the upland eastSaddleMountainsand lowland Wenas Creek-Yakima River confluence. While much of the archaeological record fits expectations derived from cultural-environmental models of human land use developed during this research thesis, significant variation in the archaeological record remains unexplained.
Recommended Citation
Anderson, Cathy J., "Land Use Variation on Mid-Columbia Plateau Upland and Lowland Archaeology Sites" (2016). All Master's Theses. 385.
https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/etd/385
Language
English