TIME AND CULTURE IN THE NORTHWEST
ANTHROPOLOGY 333
SPRING 2003
Syllabus

Time: M,W,F 9:10-10:00 Room: COLL 138
Instructor: Dr. Mary Collins, Associate Director of the Museum of Anthropology
Office: 126 College Hall Telephone: 335-4314 email: collinsm@wsu.edu
Office hours: Wednesday 10:00 to 11:00, Thursday 1:00 to 2:00. Or by appointment.

Course Description
This course will introduce students to archaeological approaches to understanding human history and behavior in the northwest with an emphasis on the regions in and around Washington State. In addition to significant coverage of the prehistory of the northwest, the course will expose students to work that has been done on historic sites including sites reflecting Anglo-American, Afro-American, Asian American, and Native American communities. The course will also discuss the role of contemporary archaeology in planning and development projects and natural resource management including contemporary controversies related to cultural resources.

Evaluation and Grades
Participation is an essential component of this course, including attendance and contribution to class discussions and group projects. There will be a mix of papers, exams, and projects due through out the semester (these are described below). All will have a point value assigned to them with 500 cumulative points possible. Grades will be assigned according to the following breakdown:
A 470-500 points ($92%)
A- 440-469 points ($88%)
B+ 425-439 points ($85%)
B 410-425 points ($82%)
B- 390-409 points ($78%)
C+ 375-389 points ($75%)
C 360-374 points ($72%)
C- 340-359 points ($68%)
D 300-349 points ($60%)
F <300 points (<60%)

Exams (200 possible points):
There will be one mid-term exam scheduled the week before spring break and a final exam during finals week. Each will be worth 100 points and will contain both objective (60 points) and essay questions (40 points). Five possible essay questions will be distributed in class the week before the exam. At the time of the exam three of the questions will be randomly drawn and you will be expected to write on two of them.

Research paper and class presentation (150 possible points):
Each student will research and write one significant paper (100 points) and do a 10-15 minute oral summary (50 points) of the paper to the rest of the class. A list of suggested topics will be provided on the class web site. On the class schedule below there are dates by which you must have chosen a topic and discussed it with me, prepare an outline and discuss it with me, and submit a draft. You won’t be penalized points wise for missing any of these steps, but if you let me help you along the way you will have a more enjoyable time writing the paper and a better chance for a good grade. You may submit the paper as paper or electronically, but, be sure to keep a copy somewhere!

Class project (100 points):
The class will be divided into teams of four or five. Each team will be given a packet of information that describes a scenario involving an archaeological site and a planned development project that will impact the site. Also included will be information about other resources potentially impacted by the planned project such as wild life, recreation, water quality, and tribal concerns. Each team will act as the ‘agency archaeologist’ whose job it is to determine the character and significance of the site, the nature of possible impacts to the site, and to suggest possible mitigation alternatives for the planned development. Each team will prepare a written management document. Representatives of several local agencies: Mona Wright, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; Mark Hill, U. S. Forest Service; and Rich Bailey, Bureau of Land Management are helping us by providing case studies from their files. Examples of the types of document each group should prepare will be posted on the class web site. The final documents prepared by each team will also be posted on the web site. Portions of class meeting times will be allocated to team meetings. These will be determined on an as needed basis but should not happen more than four times or less than twice. We will spend one day of class discussing the results of each teams work. At that time the real world outcomes will be revealed and compared to the plans developed by each team.

Readings journal (50 points):
Each student will maintain a journal that briefly summarizes and comments on the assigned readings. The journal entry is due the same week as the reading is assigned. The quality of the content and style will not be evaluated–you do something you get the points. You can use any format you like, but I recommend that you submit the journal entries as emails to me. Again, keep copies, accidents do happen.

Field Trip:
On Saturday, April 26th, there will be an optional field trip. The trip will include visits to at least one archaeological site and one rock art site. We will also visit the National Park Service Interpretive Center at Spalding and the Nez Perce Reservation at Lapwai. The trip will be co-led by members of the Nez Perce Tribal Cultural Resources Program. Logistics will be discussed in class and posted on the class web site. Because this will not take place during the regular class meeting time attendance is not required but you won’t want to miss this!

Required text books:

Ames, Kenneth M. And Herbert D. G. Maschner
1999 Peoples of the Northwest Coast: Their Archaeology and Prehistory. Thames and Hudson, London. ($24.95)

Hayden, Brian
1997 The Pithouses of Keatley Creek. Harcourt, Brace, New York. ($25.95)

Stein, Julie
2000 Exploring Coast Salish Prehistory: The Archaeology of San Juan Island. University of Washington Press, Seattle. ($17.95)

Optional Text (copies of assigned readings will be available at Holland Reserve)

Walker, Deward E. Jr. (editor)
1998 Plateau. Handbook of North American Indians, vol. 12. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Class outline and reading assignments:
Week 1: Jan. 13-17. Contextual background: the New World 25,000 to 100 years ago. And, the cultural area concept and culture areas in the northwest.

Week 2: Jan. 20-24. MONDAY, NO CLASS MLK DAY. A history of archeology in the northwest: from Franz Boas and the Jessup Expedition to Modern Cultural Resource Management.
Readings: Ames, Kenneth M. And Herbert D. G. Maschner
1999 Peoples of the Northwest Coast: Their Archaeology and Prehistory. Chapter 1, Introduction, pp. 13-42. Thames and Hudson, London.
Lohse, E. S. and Roderick Sprague
1998 History of Research. In Plateau, edited by Deward E. Walker, pp. 8-28. Handbook of North American Indians, vol. 12. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Week 3: Jan. 27-31. Northwest environments since the end of the ice ages. Submit research paper topic.
Film: The Great Floods: Cataclysms of the Ice Age. Fourteen minutes. Produced by WSU in cooperation with Coulee Dam National Recreation Area National Park Service. 1996 ?
Readings: Ames, Kenneth M. And Herbert D. G. Maschner
1999 Peoples of the Northwest Coast: Their Archaeology and Prehistory. Chapter 2, Ecology: Environments and Demography, pp. 43-56. Thames and Hudson, London.
Chatters, James C.
1998 Environment. In Plateau, edited by Deward E. Walker, pp. 29-48. Handbook of North American Indians, vol. 12. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Week 4: Feb. 3-7. Prehistory before 8000 years ago.
Readings: Ames, Kenneth M. And Herbert D. G. Maschner
1999 Peoples of the Northwest Coast: Their Archaeology and Prehistory. Chapter 3, The First Inhabitants of the Northwest Coast, pp. 57-86. Thames and Hudson, London.
Chatters, James C. and David Pokotylo
1998 Prehistory: Introduction. In Plateau, edited by Deward E. Walker, pp. 73-80. Handbook of North American Indians, vol. 12. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Week 5: Feb. 10-14: Prehistory 8000 to 2000 years ago.
Readings: Ames, Kenneth M. And Herbert D. G. Maschner
1999 Peoples of the Northwest Coast: Their Archaeology and Prehistory. Chapter 4, The Pacific and Modern Periods, pp. 87-112. Thames and Hudson, London.

Week 6: Feb. 17-21: Prehistory 2000-200 years ago on the northwest coast.
Film: The Archaeology of West Point. Twenty seven minutes. Produced by Larson Anthropological\Archaeological Services, Gig Harbor, Washington. 1995
Film: Makah Indian History. 50 minutes. The Don McCune Library. Woodinville, Washington.
Readings: Stein, Julie
2000 Exploring Coast Salish Prehistory: The Archaeology of San Juan Island. University of Washington Press, Seattle.

Week 7: Feb. 24-28: Prehistory 2000-200 years ago in the interior northwest.
Readings: Ames, Kenneth, Don E. Dumond, Jerry R. Galm, and Rick
1998 Prehistory of the Southern Plateau. In Plateau, edited by Deward E. Walker, pp. 103-119. Handbook of North American Indians, vol. 12. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Week 8: March 3-7: The archaeological study of prehistoric economic organization: subsistence and trade.
Readings: Ames, Kenneth M. And Herbert D. G. Maschner
1999 Peoples of the Northwest Coast: Their Archaeology and Prehistory. Chapter 5, Northwest Coast Subsistence, pp. 113-146. Thames and Hudson, London.
Stern, Theodore
1998 Columbia River Trade Network. In Plateau, edited by Deward E. Walker, pp. 641-652. Handbook of North American Indians, vol. 12. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Week 9: March 10-14: The archaeological study of prehistoric social organization: houses, slaves, warfare, and cemeteries. And MID-TERM EXAM.
Readings: Ames, Kenneth M. And Herbert D. G. Maschner
1999 Peoples of the Northwest Coast: Their Archaeology and Prehistory. Chapter 6, Households and Beyond, pp. 147-176; Chapter 7, Status and Ritual, pp. 177-194; Chapter 8, Warfare, pp. 195-218. Thames and Hudson, London.
Hayden, Brian
1997 The Pithouses of Keatley Creek. Harcourt, Brace, New York.
Note: Journal entries for the above readings are not due until Week 11.

Week 10: March 17-21: SPRING BREAK

Week 11: March 24-28: The archaeological study of social organization: houses, slaves, warfare, and cemeteries continued. Prepare research paper outline.
Readings: Week 9 readings continued. Journal entries are due this week.

Week 12: March 31-April 4: The Historic Period: Finding Lewis and Clark and the Hudson’s Bay Company.
Readings: National Park Service
1999 Process of Discovery: Archaeological Exploration of Fort Clatsop National Memorial. http://www.nps.gov/focl/archoverview.htm
Rasmussen, Jay
1999 Report on the 1997 Archaeological Excavations at Fort Clatsop.. http://www.lcarchive.org/fcexcav.html

Week 13: April 7-11: The Historic Period: The archaeology of race and ethnicity in the historic northwest.
Readings: Fagan, John
1993 The Chinese Cannery Workers of Warrendale, Oregon. In Hidden Heritage: Historical Archaeology of the Overseas Chinese, edited by Priscilla Wegars, pp. 215- 228. Baywood, Amityville, New York.
Copy available at Holland Reserve.

Week 14: April 14-18: Contemporary cultural and political issues in northwest archaeology: Kennewick Man and More. Submit draft of research paper. GROUP PROJECTS DUE.
Film: Mystery of the First American’s. 56 minutes. A PBS NOVA Production.
Readings: Watkins, Joe
Indigenous Archaeology: American Indian Values and Scientific Practice. Chapter 8, The Conflict at the East Wenatchee Clovis Site, pp. 117-134; Chapter 9, "The Ancient One" of Kennewick, pp. 135-154. Alta Mira Press. Walnut Creek, California Copies available at Holland Reserve.

Week 15: April 21-25: Individual student presentations

Week 16: April 28-May 2: Individual student presentations and review of team project results. FINAL VERSION OF RESEARCH PAPER DUE.

Final Exam: May _ at __ o’clock in room ______________.Reasonable accommodations are available for students who have a documented disability. Please notify the instructor during the first week of class of any accommodations needed for the course. Late notification may cause the requested accommodations to be unavailable. All accommodations must be approved through the Disability Resource Center (DRC) in Administration Annex 206 (telephone 335-1566).