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Further Comment on the Sheep Island Site, McNary Reservoir, Washington

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Thomas R. Garth
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Abstract

The Sheep Island site in the McNary Reservoir area of the Middle Columbia is unique in showing a burial stratigraphy, with flexed burials underlying a cremation “floor” and cremation pits. Both are prehistoric, whereas the nearby Berrian Island site on the north shore of the Columbia shows an abundance of historic flexed “cedar cist” burials. The presence of a mixed Salish and Sahaptin population in the area in early historic times casts doubt on these “cedar cist” burials as typically Sahaptin.

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American Antiquity , Volume 30 , Issue 1 , July 1964 , pp. 100 - 103
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1964

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