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A Probable Association of Mammoth and Artifacts in the Willamette Valley, Oregon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

L. S. Cressman  and
W. S. Laughlin
L. S. Cressman
Affiliation:
University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon
W. S. Laughlin
Affiliation:
Willamette University, Salem, Oregon
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Some eleven years ago, about three miles outside of Lebanon, Oregon, on the north side of an extension of the foothillsof the Cascade Range, a rancher, in cleaning out his spring, discovered a fossilized bone of a large mammal. In response to his communication, Dr. S. B. Laughlin of the Department of Sociology at Willamette University, in Salem, went to the site with Professor Monk and Professor Clark, and carried out an excavation. Part of a mammoth tooth was found, a portion of a tusk, and a small bone chisel made from the rib of a mammal perhaps the size of a deer.

This locality was called to the attention of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Oregon by Professor Laughlin's son within the past year; and in May, he and Cressman, with a number of assistants, went to the site to carry out further excavations.

Type
Research Article
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 6 , Issue 4 , April 1941 , pp. 339 - 342
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1941

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References

1 See L. S. Cressman, “Early Man in South Central Oregon” (read at Pacific Science Congress, Stanford University, August 1939; in press for Proceedings, Pacific Science Congress; Cressman, “Early Man and Culture in the Northern Great Basin Region of South Central Oregon,” Carnegie Institution of Washington Year Book, 1938–1939, No. 38, pp. 314–317 (December IS, 1939); Cressman, “Early Man and Culture in South Central Oregon,” Report of Committee on Research, American Philosophical Society, Grant No. 302 (1939), pp. 194–196 (reprinted from Year Book of the American Philosophical Society for 1939, pp. 147–326); Cressman, Howel Williams, and Alex D. Krieger, Early Man in Oregon: Archaeological Studies in the Northern Great Basin, University of Oregon Monographs, Studies in Anthropology, No. 3, August 1940; Merriam, John C, President-Emeritus, Carnegie Institution of Washington, “Paleontological, Geological and Historical Research,” pp. 306–308 (reprinted from Carnegie Institution of Washington Year Book, 1938–1939, No. 38, pp. 301–310, December IS, 1939); and Cressman, in Carnegie Institution of Washington Year Book, 1939–1940, No. 39, pp. 300–306.

2 Elevations are taken from the U.S.G.S. Topographical Sheet “Lebanon Quadrangle, Oregon,” edition 1924.

3 Mr. Robert E. Brooke, laboratory technician in the Dept. of Geology at the University of Oregon, prepared a thin section of the artifact and submitted the following report: “Highly silicious with undeterminable grain sizes. Appears to have an alteration zone about ⅛ to ¼ inch around the outside. Largely stained with iron oxide and possibly a slight alteration to kaolinite, which probably means it has been exposed to weathering over a long duration. It was probably originally a high temperature vein product. I would say that it closely resembles a jasper.“

4 The specimens referred to are in the Museum of Anthropology at Willamette University, Salem, Oregon.