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Oregon Archaeological Society P.O. Box 13293, Portland, Oregon 97213 (503) 727-3507  Email contact: info@oregonarchaeological.org

The Society has published reports on various archaeological sites and topics since 1959. They are written through the efforts of Society volunteers, and with the guidance of professional archaeologists. Many items are available at monthly meetings. Full payment must be made before the item can ship. Purchase orders will not be accepted.

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Talking With the Past: The Ethnography of Rock Art (OAS Publication #16).  Editors: James D. Keyser, George Poetschat, Michael W. Taylor.  Clottes, Lewis-Williams, Keyser, Whitley, Hays-Gilpin and rock art scholars from around the world talk with traditionalist Indian elders to exchange knowledge about the roles of rock art in the lives of ancient people. In 2002 the Oregon Archaeological Society organized a conference that brought together rock art scholars from around the world and tribal traditionalists from the lower Columbia River region to discuss rock art of many different regions. The result is this volume, which combines newly gathered ethnography with scholarly analysis and interpretation, to provide fresh views of the roles of rock art in societies around the world. Rock art—paintings and carvings from the prehistoric past—occurs on every continent except Antarctica. Some of the best known, and oldest, is found in France and Spain where the ice age ancestors of modern day Europeans painted horses, bison, wooly mammoths, and wooly rhinoceroses in caves such as Lascaux, Chauvet, and Altamira. Using oral tradition, myth, and folklore, knowledgeable traditionalists have provided insights into why the images were made, who painted and carved them, and what the meanings are for various symbols. For over 150 years scholars have sought and recorded this important information. This volume includes both scholarly and traditionalist insights into rock art from around the world and across the last 30,000 years. 

Format Information: Dimensions: 6” x 9”. Binding: Perfect bound softcover & hardcover with dust jacket. Number of pages: 380+ pages. Illustrations: Richly illustrated with photos and drawings including two pages of color plates.

Ordering Information: Price: Softcover $30 (OAS Members $25) / Hardcover $40 (OAS Members $35)Mail orders please add $4.00 for shipping and handling. Wholesale prices available. Please send check (no credit cards please) to: The Oregon Archaeological Society, P.O. Box 13293, Portland, OR 97213

Warrior Art of Wyoming's Green River Basin - Biographic Petroglyphs Along the Seedskadee (OAS Publication 15) by James D. Keyser and George R. Poetschat. Located along the Oregon Trail (upper left), rock art sites such as Names Hill (tipi at upper right), South Piney (bear at lower right), and La Barge Bluffs (elk at lower left) contain  hundreds of ancient rock art images, all of which are included in Warrior Art of Wyoming's Green River Basin. These fantastic images, created by the Plains Shoshone Indians, include both ceremonial and biographic subjects. The Green River, known to the resident Shoshones as Seedskadee Agie, flows through a high Plains-like Basin that was the crossroads of North America during three hundred years of the Historic period. In this area the Shoshone acquired their first horses and spread northwestward onto the Great Plains to become the feared "Snakes". Later the area served as a corridor for horse raiders going south to steal more of these coveted animals. Fur trappers first entered the basin in 1812 and from 1825 through 1840 the area was home to the Green River Rendezvous, an annual trade fair where fur trappers, traders, missionaries, artists and Indians mixed together in a spirited free-for-all. From 1840 to 1865 the Basin was crossed by thousands of emigrants traveling the Oregon and Overland Trails, many of whom left their marks among those of the Indian artists. Finally came the Transcontinental Railroad in 1868 and the beginning of the end for the cultures of the tribes who had inhabited this area. The petroglyphs at these sites document all of these events and more in the picture-writing of Plains Indian Biographic Art. Published in 2005. Soft back, 197 pages with 91 figures. ISBN 0-9764804-1-7 Price: $25.00 + $4.00 s/h.

Echoes of the Ancients, Rock Art of The Dalles-Deschutes Region (OAS Publication 14) edited by members James D. Keyser, Michael W. Taylor and George Poetschat. Many OAS members helped author and research the material in the new book. The Dalles-Deschutes region of the Columbia River, located in the heart of the Columbia Plateau, was a center of prehistoric human habitation for more than 10,000 years. Eddies, rapids, and waterfalls stretching from just upstream of The Dalles, through the Long Narrows to Celilo Falls provided the premier fishery on the entire Columbia Plateau. Here untold generations of people lived their lives, passing their customs, traditions, and knowledge into the future. Echoes of the Ancients honors these people by sharing a bit of their history, culture, and spirituality with newer generations. Soft back, 130 pages with 82 figures and 15 color plates. ISBN 0-9764804-0-9 Price $15.00 + $4.00 s/h.

COLUMBIA PLATEAU ROCK ART (OAS publication 11) In Oregon - The Butte Creek Sites: Steiwer Ranch, Rattlesnake Shelter. In Washington - Owl Cave.  This report is the culmination of an OAS rock art recording and documentation project under the supervision of James D. Keyser, OAS president and former Forest Service regional archaeologist.  The three sites contain some of the most spectacular rock art in the Columbia Plateau with more than 400 images that include several spirit figures and the westernmost Biographic rock art yet discovered. Owl Cave contains the deepest dark zone rock art in the region, and is one of the very few dark zone rock art sites in western North America. In addition to describing the sites and motifs, the report discusses the function, age and cultural relationships of the rock art.  It contains 116 pages and 87 figures that illustrate rock art from these sites and comparable images from across the western U.S. Price is $15.00, plus $4. S&H.

 

 

 

Wakemap Mound - Publication 1

A stratified Site on the Columbia River and nearby sites on the Long Narrows of the Columbia River.  This text covers a famous site near Petroglyph Canyon which was excavated by the University of Washington in 1954 and succeeding years. Published in 1959. 44 pages. Price $5.00 + $2.00 s/h.

 

 

 

Indian Trade Goods  Includes an overview of Indian trade goods, identification of glass beads, buttons, metal objects, coins and other objects. Many illustrations. 47 pages. First publication: 1965, revised 1993. Price $7.00 + $2.00 s/h. Price reduced to $3.00 + $2.00 s/h

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

General Reference Guide (OAS Publication 5)

Identification of Artifacts and Descriptions of Features Encountered in Archaeological Site Excavations. This illustrated guide covers both prehistoric and contact period artifacts from a number of OAS excavation projects on the Lower Columbia River in the 1960's and 1970's. 22 pages. Price $4.00 + $2.00 s/h. Price reduced to $2.00 + $2.00 s/h

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Formative Years of the Oregon Archaeological Society (OAS Publication 10)

Reprints of the Oregon Archaeological Society "Screenings" Newsletters 1951 through January 1955. Compiled in 1997. 95 pages Price $7.00  + $2.00 s/h.