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Rock art and Settlement in the Owyhee Uplands of southeastern Oregon
| Table 1: Generalized Owyhee River Chronology - adapted from Andrefsky and Presler 2000:16 |
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| Period Name | Phase Name | Ages |
| Ethnographic | Ethnographic | AD 1,850 |
| Expansion | 300 BP |
| Southern Snake River | Southern Snake River | 1,000 BP |
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| Rosegate | 4,500 BP |
| Early Archaic | Uplands Camp | 6,000 BP |
| Paleoindian | Windust | 8,000 BP |
| | 11,000 BP |
| Table 2: Counts and Frequencies of features at archaeological sites in the Owyhee uplands. |
| All archaeological sites | 511 | 100% |
| Feature | Count | Frequency |
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| Lithic Scatter | 481 | 94.1% |
| Lithic Tools | 201 | 39.3% |
| Rock shelter | 44 | 8.6% |
| Ground stone | 78 | 15.3% |
| Petroglyphs | 25 | 4.9% |
| Pictographs | 0 | 0% |
| Rock features | 24 | 4.7% |
| Pottery | 3 | .6% |
| Pit house | 1 | .2% |
| Woven items | 1 | .2% |
| Table 3: The occurrence of Heizer and Baumhoff's (1962) petroglyph styles at sixteen archaeological sites in the Owyhee Uplands. |
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| Smithsonian Number | Abstract | Representational | Pit and Grove | Scratched |
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| 35ML130 |
Yes |
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Yes |
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| 35ML168 |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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| 35ML605 |
Yes |
Yes |
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| 35ML688 |
Yes |
Yes |
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| 35ML850 |
Yes |
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| 35ML992 |
Yes |
Yes |
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| 35ML1044 |
Yes |
Yes |
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Yes |
| 35ML1045 |
Yes |
Yes |
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Yes |
| 35ML1046 |
Yes |
Yes |
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Yes |
| 35ML1049 |
Yes |
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| 35ML1050 |
Yes |
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Yes |
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| 35ML1051 |
Yes |
Yes |
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Yes |
| 35ML1052 |
Yes |
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| 35ML1053 |
Yes |
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| 35ML1054 |
Yes |
Yes |
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| 35ML1057 |
Yes |
Yes |
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Background
Results and Discussion
From Myrtle Shock's Rock art and settlement in the Owyhee uplands of southeastern Oregon
Bachelor of Philosophy in Anthropology thesis, University of Pittsburgh, University Honors College, 2002.
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Myrtle Shock: myrtle
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Last updated Wednesday January 14, 2004.