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Odell Lake Site: A New Paleo-Indian Campsitein Oregon*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

L. S. Cressman
L. S. Cressman*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon
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In the summer of 1937, a new paleo-Indian site was discovered at the south end of Odell Lake in Oregon. Odell Lake (PI. VI), lies in a glacial trough just east of the divide in the Cascade Mountains, in T 23 S, R 6½ E, Willamette Meridian. The elevation of the lake is 4,792 feet (Deschutes National Forest Map, Willamette Meridian, 1947).

In the summer of 1946, the proprietors, Wilson J. Wade and Charles A. Porter, were excavating for the foundations and basement of a lodge on the south side of the outlet of Odell Lake on a bench or terrace at the east end, about 25 feet above the lake. Richard P. Bottcher, Engineer of the U. S. Forest Service, Deschutes National Forest, was present. The excavation went through a bed of pumice and into the glacial moraine on which it rests. Bottcher picked up points which he thought came from under the pumice. He showed these to Mr. Phil Brogan of Bend, Oregon, Managing Editor of the Bend Bulletin, who was aware of the previous finds under Crater Lake pumice. Brogan shortly afterward called my attention to the site.

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American Antiquity , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , July 1948 , pp. 57 - 58
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1948

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Footnotes

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I am indebted to grants from the Viking Fund, Inc., of New York, and the General Research Council of the University of Oregon in support of the field work in 1947 in connection with which this work was carried out. I wish also to thank the U. S. Forest Service of the Department of Agriculture for a permit to work on land under its jurisdiction. This site was reported in a paper read at the American Anthropological Association and Society for American Archaeology meetings at Albuquerque, 1947, and before the section on Geology and Geography of the Oregon Academy of Science, January 17,1948.

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