Former Students

Paul H. Sanders

• 1982 A lithic analysis of the Windust Phase component, Hatwai site (10NP143), Nez Perce County, Idaho, MA thesis, University of Wyoming.

Ricky G. Atwell

• 1989 Subsistence variability on the Columbia Plateau. Master's thesis, Department of Anthropology, Portland State University, Portland.

Doria Raetz

• 1989 Bone Tool Assemblages as an Aid to Shell Mound Site Typologies on the Northwest Coast . Master's thesis, Department of Anthropology, Portland State University, Portland.

Shirley Jo Barr Williams

• 1989 Analysis of ancient blood residues on the Deitz Ranch site Clovis artifacts, MA thesis, PSU

Robert J. Burnett

• 1991 The archaeology of 35CL98, an early site in the northern Willamette Valley. MA thesis PSU

Maureen M. Newman Zehendner

• The "Sunken Village site". an overview and management plan" MA thesis, PSU, 1992

Linda Freidenberg

• 'These look like old points': a projectile point chronology for the Tualatin Valley. MA Thesis PSU 1993.

Steve Hamilton

• 1994 Technological organization and sedentism: expedient core reduction, stockpiling, and tool curation at the Meier site (35CO5). Masters thesis, Department of Anthropology, Portland State University, Portland.

John Wolf

• 1994 The spatial distribution of ground stone tools as a marker of status differentials in a Chinookan plank house on the lower Columbia River . Master's thesis, Department of Anthropology, Portland State University, Portland.

Mary Ricks

• 1995 A survey and analysis of prehistoric rock art of the Warner Valley region, Lake County, Oregon. Ph.D. Dissertation, Portland state University

Cameron Smith

• 1996 Social stratification within a protohistoric plankhouse of the Pacific Northwest coast: use-wear and spatial distribution analysis of chipped lithic artifacts. Master's thesis, Department of Anthropology, Portland State University, Portland .
• 2004 The Social Organization of Production in Three Protohistoric Lower-Columbia River Plank Houses. Ph. D. dissertation, Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver B.C.
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Melissa Darby

• 1996 Wapato for the people : an ecological approach to understanding the Native American use of Sagittaria latifolia on the lower Columbia River. Master's thesis, Department of Anthropology, Portland State University, Portland.

William Cornett

• 1998 Enculturing Nature. Master's thesis, Department of Anthropology, Portland State University, Portland

Deborah Davis

• 1998 Bone Tool Technology: Measurements of curation and the Spatial Distribution of Bone and Antler Artifacts from a Pacific Northwest Coast Plankhouse. Master's thesis, Department of Anthropology, Portland State University, Portland.

Russell R. Hatz

• 1998 The Development of a Cultural Resouces Management Database Using Existing Data for Non-Federal Lands PSU MA Thesis.

Darin Molnar

• 1999 Artifact Information Management System (AIMS) 5.0, An Archaeological Artifact Attribute Electronic Database Management System. Master's thesis, Department of Anthropology, Portland State University, Portland.

Pat Banach

• 2002 Copper on the Pacific Northwest Coast. Master's thesis, Department of Anthropology, Portland State University, Portland.

Jon Daehnke

• 2002 Public Outreach and the “Hows” of Archaeology: Archaeology as a Model for Education. Master's thesis, Portland State University, Portland.

Alex Gall

• 2002 A critical examination of the cultural resource management policies and practices at three international development agencies. Mater's thesis, Portland State University, Portland.

Gretchen A. Kaehler

• 2002 Patterns in Glass: The Interpretation of European Glass Trade Beads from Two Protohistoric Sites in the Greater Lower Columbia Region. PSU MA Thesis

Tom Becker

• 2004 Results of Shellfish Analysis from 35LNC33, A Site in the Salmon River Estuary, Lincoln County, Oregon. Master's thesis. Department of Anthropology, Portland State University, Portland.

Elizabeth A. Sobel

• 2004 Social Complexity and Corporate Households on the Southern Northwest Coast of North America, A.D. 1450 – 1855. Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan .

Leslie O'Rourke

• 2005 The Wapato Valley Predictive Model: Prehistoric Archaeological Site Location on the Floodplain of the Lower Columbia in the Portland Basin . Master's thesis, Portland State University, Portland.

Robert David

• 2005 Rock Art as Shaman's Tools: Testing and Refining Landscape Symbolism Models in the Klamath Basin. Master's thesis, Portland State University, Portland.

James Carlson

• 2005 The Chipped Stone Assemblage at Çadir Höyük in the Alisar Regional Project: Technology and Typology in the Chalcolithic and Bronze Ages on the north central Anatolian Plateau . Master's thesis, Portland State University, Portland.

Shingo Hamada

• 2006 The Ainu; Anthropology as Cultural Critique. Master's thesis, Portland State University, Portland.

Stephanie Butler

• 2007 The Interpetation of Indoor Storage Facilities From Two Plankhouse Sites in the Columbia River Region.

Paul Solimano

• Investigating settlement patterns on the Upper Columbia.