Virginia L. Butler
Professor of Anthropology

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Publications

Butler, V.L. 1993 Natural vs. cultural salmonid remains: origin of The Dalles Roadcut bones, Columbia River, Oregon. Journal of Archaeological Science 20:1-24. View Full Text PDF (5.0MB)
Butler, V.L. & J.C. Chatters 1994 The role of bone density in structuring prehistoric salmon bone assemblages. Journal of Archaeological Science 21:413-424. View Full Text PDF (2.6MB)
Butler, V.L. 1994 Fish feeding behaviour and fish capture: the case for variation in Lapita fishing strategies. Archaeology in Oceania 29:81-90.  
Chatters, J.C., V.L. Butler, M.J. Scott, D.M. Anderson, and D.N. Neitzel 1995 A paleoscience approach to estimating the effects of climatic warming on salmonid fisheries of the Columbia River basin. Canadian Special Publication of Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 121:489-496. View Full Text PDF (3.3MB)
P.V. Kirch, D.W. Steadman, V.L. Butler, J. Hather, and M.I. Weisler 1995 Prehistory and human ecology in Eastern Polynesia: Excavations at Tangatatau Rockshelter, Mangaia, Cook Islands. Archaeology in Oceania 30:47-65.  
Butler, V.L. 1996 Tui chub taphonomy and the importance of marsh resources in the western Great Basin of North America. American Antiquity 61(4):699-717. View Full Text PDF (4.8MB)
Butler, V.L. and R. A. Schroeder 1998 Do Digestive Processes Leave Diagnostic Traces on Fish Bones? Journal of Archaeological Science 25:957-971. View Full Text PDF (3.4MB)
Butler, V.L. and N. J. Bowers 1998 Ancient DNA from Salmon Bone: A Preliminary Study, Ancient Biomolecules. 2:17-26. View Full Text PDF (2.4MB)
Butler, V.L. 2000 Resource depression on the Northwest Coast of North America. Antiquity 74:649-661. View Full Text PDF (2.4MB)
Butler , V.L. 2001 Fish Faunal Remains. In Archaeological Survey and Excavations in the Carson Desert and Stillwater Mountains, Nevada, edited by R.L. Kelly, University of Utah Anthropological Papers No 123, Salt Lake City.  
Butler, V.L. 2001 Changing Fish Use on Mangaia, Southern Cook Islands: Resource Depression and the Prey Choice Model. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 11:88-100. View Full Text PDF (2.6MB)
Butler , V.L. and J. E. O'Connor 2004 9,000 years of fishing on the Columbia River. Quaternary Research 62 (1):1-8. View Full-Text PDF (0.7MB)
Butler , V.L. 2004 Where have all the Native Fish Gone? The Fate of the Fish that Lewis and Clark Encountered on the Lower Columbia River. Oregon Historical Quarterly 105(3):438-463. View Full-Text PDF (3.4MB)
Butler , V.L. and M.G. Delacorte 2004 Doing Zooarchaeology as if it Mattered: Use of Faunal Data to Address Current Issues in Fish Conservation Biology in Owens Valley, California. In Archaeology and Conservation Biology, edited by R. Lyman and K. Cannon, University of Utah Press, pp. 25-44. View Full-Text PDF (3.0MB)
Butler, V.L. 2004

Fish Remains. In Marmes Rockshelter: A Final Report on 11,000 Years of Cultural Use, edited by B. A. Hicks, Washington State University Press, Pullman, Washington. pp. 320-337.
The appendices from this report and additional information from this project are available online at the website of the Museum of Anthropology, Washington State University (www.archaeology.wsu.edu)

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Butler, V.L and S.K. Campbell 2004 Resource Intensification and Resource Depression in the Pacific Northwest of North America: A Zooarchaeological Review. Journal of World Prehistory 18 (4):327-405. View Full-Text PDF (0.7MB)
   
Last Updated September 28, 2005