Volumes 51 through 57

2017–2023


  • Engendering the Past: The Status of Gender and Feminist Approaches to Archaeology in the Pacific Northwest and Future Directions, by Tiffany J. Fulkerson

  • Chemical Sourcing of Obsidian Artifacts from the Grisson Site (45-KT-301) to Study Source Variability, by Anne B. Parfitt and Patrick T. McCutcheon

  • Exploratory Analysis and Significance Testing of the Nez Perce Settlement Patterns Model, by Lyle D. Nakonechny

  • Ancient Artifact or New Age Totem: Analysis of a Carved Sacrum from the Oregon Coast, by Dennis G. Griffin

  • Changes in Middle Holocene Shellfish Harvesting Practices: Evidence from Labouchere Bay (49-PET-476), Southeast Alaska, by Mark R. Williams


  • Editorial by Darby C. Stapp

  • The Kyzylsyr Middle Paleolithic (ProtoDyuktai) Culture of Northern Asia (150,000–35,000 Years Ago) by Yuri A. Mochanov and Svetlana A. Fedoseeva
    Introduction and Translation by by Richard Bland
    Commentary by Roy Carlson

  • Entering the American Continent: The Chehalis River Hypothesis by Dale R. Croes and Vic J. Kucera

  • Treaties, Coast Salish Literacy, and Thomas G. Bishop: A Republication of An Appeal to the Government to Fulfill Sacred Promises Made 61 Years Ago by Robert E. Walls

  • Owyhee Canyonlands and the Shoshone-Paiute Tribes by Ted Howard

  • Remembering David L. Cole (1928–2017): A Transitional Figure in Oregon Archaeology by Rick Minor and John L. Fagan

  • Metric Analysis of Chipped Cobble Net Weights on the Lower Spokane River (Spokane Arm of Lake Roosevelt) by Christopher M. Casserino

  • Journal of Northwest Anthropology List of Reviewers 2016–2017

  • 69th Annual Northwest Anthropological Conference Abstracts 24–26 March 2016

  • Erratum in Chemical Sourcing of Obsidian Artifacts from the Grissom Site (45-KT-301) to Study Source Variability


  • Editorial by Darby C. Stapp

  • The Social Importance of Volcanic Peaks for the Indigenous Peoples of British Columbia by Rudy Reimer/Yumks

  • The Pacific Crabapple (Malus fusca) and Cowlitz Cultural Resurgence by Nathaniel D. Reynolds and Christine Dupres

  • Enduring Legacy: Geoarchaeological Evidence of Prehistoric Native American Activity in the Post-Industrial Landscape at Willamette Falls, Oregon by Rick Minor and Curt D. Peterson

  • A Multi-Authored Commentary on Carry Forth the Stories: An Ethnographer’s Journey into Native Oral Tradition with a Response from the Author, Rodney Frey by Darby C. Stapp, Deward E. Walker, Jr., Caj and Kim Matheson, Tina Wynecoop, Suzanne Crawford O’Brien, Aaron Denham, and Rodney Frey

  • A History of Anthropology at Reed College and the Warm Springs Project by Robert Moore, Robert Brightman, and Eugene Hunn

  • New Materials on the Ancient Bone-Carving Art of the Eskimos of Chukotka by Yu. A. Shirokov, Translated by Richard L. Bland


  • Fertility of First-Generation Japanese Immigrant Women in Seattle: The Influence of Ken Affiliation, Residential Location, and Employment Status by Akiko Nosaka and Donna Lockwood Leonetti

  • Seasonal Sociopolitical Reversals and the Reinforcement of Autonomy and Fluidity among the Coast Salish by Emily Helmer

  • Seeing the Forest for the Trees: A Spatial Database to Enhance Potential of Legacy Collections at the Washington State University Museum of Anthropology by William J. Damitio, Andrew Gillreath-Brown, and Shannon Tushingham

  • Coast Salish Sweep ~ Tripling Chehalis Stories by Jay Miller

  • The Hunting of Marine Animals and Fishing among the Natives of the Northwest Coast of America by Alphonse Louis Pinart, Translated by Richard L. Bland

  • Abstracts from the 70th Annual Northwest Anthropological Conference, Spokane, WA, 13–15 April 2017


  • "Makahs, Quileutes, and the Precontact History of the Northern Olympic Peninsula, Washington" - Gary C. Wessen

  • "Not Even Hearsay? The Oral Narratives of the First Nations of British Columbia" - David Henige

  • "'I Was Surprised:' The UBC School and Hearsay--A Reply to David Henige" - Charles R. Menzies and Andrew Martindale

  • "Portable Engravings of the Northeastern Paleoasiatics (Late Neolithic and Paleometal): An Attempt at Semantic and Ethnic Interpretation" - Margarita A. Kir'yak (Author) and Richard L. Bland (Translator)

  • "A Comment from Mark G. Plew on Kir'yak's Portable Engravings of the Northeastern Paleoasiatics" - Mark G. Plew

  • "Why Don't We Write More?: Essays on Writing and Publishing Anthropological Research" - Darby C. Stapp, Julia Longenecker, Virginia Butler, Kenneth M. Ames, Roy Carlson, Alice B. Kehoe, R. Lee Lyman, Robert R. Mierendorf, Mark Plew, Thomas F. King, Dennis Griffin, Dale R. Croes, Kevin J. Lyons, Madonna L. Moss, Mark S. Warner, Dennis Dauble, Bruce Granville Miller, Jay Miller, Nathaniel D. Reynolds, Astrida R. Blukis-Onat, Rodney Frey, Shannon Tushingham and Tiffany Fulkerson


  • Zooarchaeology on the Northwest Coast of North America - Gregory G. Monks

  • Understanding the Fire History of the San Juan Islands, Washington, Through Charcoal Accumulation Rates and Traditional Ecological Knowledge - Sarah E. Coffey, Wendy B. Anderson, and Benjamin R. Tanner

  • The Influence of Coastal Geomorphic Processes on Terrestrial Archaeological Site Distributions: A Puget Sound Example - J. Tait Elder, Melissa Cascella, and M. Shane Sparks

  • Why Are There No Pre-Clovis Mammoth Sites in the Columbia Plateau? - Robert Lee Sappington

  • “Mammoths” and “Mammoth-Bisons” in Ancient Art of the Northern Far East - Alexander I. Lebedintsev, Translation by Richard L. Bland

  • Abstracts from the 71st Annual Northwest Anthropological Conference, Boise, Idaho, 28–31 March 2018


  • “La Gente de Washington es la Más Tranquila” (People from Washington are the Most Laid-Back): An Ethnographic Perspective on Honduran and Salvadoran Migration to the Pacific Northwest, by Jordan Levy and Sandra Estrada

  • Salish Sea Islands Archaeology and Precontact History, by Richard M. Hutchings and Scott Williams

  • A Comment on Wessen’s “Makahs, Quileutes, and the Precontact History of the Northwestern Olympic Peninsula, Washington,” with a Reply from Gary C. Wessen, by Jay Powell and Gary C. Wessen*

  • “Notes Regarding my Adventures in Anthropology and with Anthropologists” by John Swanton with an Introduction by Jay Miller

  • “The Haida” by Adolf Bastian with an Introduction by Richard L. Bland


  • “No One Asked for an Ethnography." Reflections on Community-based Anthropology in Coast Salish Country by Thomas W Murphy

  • Image Rock: Rediscovering a Petroglyph in the High Cascades by David A. Kaiser and Julia Cleary

  • Coast Salish Social Complexity, Community Ties, and Resistance: Using Mortuary Analysis to Identify Changes in Coast Salish Society Before, During, and After the Early Colonial Period by Alexandra M. Peck

  • Confirmation Bias: Commentary on the 2020 JONA Article, "Salish Sea Islands Archaeology and Precontact History” by Adam N. Rorabaugh, Kate Shantry, and James W. Brown

  • Historical Archaeology of Fort Boise's Surgeon's Quarters Porch Evidences the Behavior of Children by Nathan J. May

  • Abstracts from the 72nd Annual Northwest Anthropological Conference, Kennewick, Washington, 20–23 March 2019


  • Credit vs. Market (Early Russian-American Discussions on Evolution of the Northwest Coast Societies) by Igor V. Kuznetsov

  • History of Lushootseed Language Instruction by Laurel Sercombe

  • Stalking the Wild Pigeon: Diffusion of a Word for ‘Pigeon’ on the Northwest Coast by William R. Seaburg

  • Makahs, S’Klallams, and the Hoko River by Gary C. Wessen

  • Seeing Women in Stone: A Spatial Analysis of Lithic Technology and Use-Wear to Identify a Norton Tradition Ena on the Kvichak River, Bristol Bay, Alaska by Kathleen Scanlan

  • “We Didn’t Go Anywhere”: Restoring Jamestown S’Klallam Presence, Combating Settler Colonial Amnesia, and Engaging with Non-Natives in Western Washington by Alexandra M. Peck

  • The State of Oregon and Nine Federally-Recognized Tribes Forge a Path Forward by Dennis G. Griffin, Karen Quigley, Kassandra Rippee, Carolyn Holthoff, and Nancy J. Nelson

  • Whistlin’ Dixie? Comments on the Association for Washington Archaeology’s Statement on Racism, Anti-Racism, Diversity, and Inclusion by Richard M. Hutchings


  • Reflections on the State of Northwest Archaeology: Essays in Honor of Virginia Butler, by Shelby L. Anderson, Jeremy Spoon, Michele Ruth Gamburd, Madonna L. Moss, Patrick (Pat) Lubinski, Dana Lepofsky, Gary Wessen, Douglas Deur, Perry Chocktoot Jr., Elizabeth (Betsy) J. Reitz, Dave Ellis, Julie K. Stein, Douglas Wilson, Virginia Parks, Lyssia Merrifield, Scott Thomas, Kelly Cannon-Miller, Chelsea Rose, Amanda Taylor, Bob Kopperl, Ross Smith, and Virginia L. Butler

  • Conceptualizations of Coast Salish Wealth through the Spatio-Temporal Distributions of Ground Stone Disk Beads in British Columbia, Canada, by Megan Harris

  • The Use and Cultural Importance of Suckers (Catostomidae Cope, 1871) among the Indigenous Peoples of Northwestern North America: An Ethnographic Overview, by Thomas C.A. Royle

  • New Light on the Antiquity of Chinook Jargon (Chinuk Wawa) from Francis Drake’s Exploration of the Northwest Coast, by Melissa Darby

  • The Social Mechanics of Hop Production: The Relationships Between People and Machines in the Yakima Valley Hops Fields, by Mackenzie Stinson, Jazmin Gonzalez, and Rodrigo Renteria-Valencia

  • Amelia Louise Susman Schultz (1915–2021), by Jay Miller


  • Editorial, by Darby C. Stapp

  • Names Used Among Native Americans at the Colville Indian Agency: Perspectives from the 1885 Bureau of Indian Affairs Census, by Jillian Gordner, Arland Thornton, and Linda Young-DeMarco

  • Aboriginal Olympic Peninsula: Culture History of Chimakuan Precedent, by Jay Miller

  • 1980s WARC (Washington Archaeological Research Center): An Experiment in Communitarianism for Pacific Northwest Archaeology—And it did WARC (Work), by Dale R. Croes and Steven Hackenberger

  • “Eskimo and Aleut Masks of the Pinart Collection” by Éveline Lot-Falck, with an Introduction by Richard L. Bland

  • Response to Hutchings’ “Whistlin’ Dixie? Comments on the Association for Washington Archaeology’s Statement on Racism, Anti-Racism, Diversity, and Inclusion,” by Robert Kopperl

  • A Few Comments on “Whistlin’ Dixie? Comments on the Association for Washington Archaeology’s Statement on Racism, Anti-Racism, Diversity, and Inclusion” by Richard Hutchings, by Gary C. Wessen


  • Science and Fiction: Kennewick Man/Ancient One in Latter-day Saint Discourse, by Thomas W Murphy, Simon G. Southerton, and Angelo Baca

  • Columbia Plateau Culture Area Rock Art Bibliography, by Leigh Marymor, David A. Kaiser, James D. Keyser, with Foreword by William D. Layman

  • Fruit Trees and Orchards on Historic Sites: Documentation and Treatment Recommendations, by Rene F. Burk

  • Calculating Return Rates for Habitats in the Great Basin, by Megan A. McGuinness, 2022 NWAC Student Paper Winner

  • Violence, Structure, and Agency in Labor Market Segmentation Among Mexican Migrant Farmworkers, by Lark P. Cummings, 2022 NWAC Student Paper Winner

  • Inchelium Cultural Research Center, by Tina Wynecoop


  • Graphing Culture Change on the Plateau: A History, by R. Lee Lyman

  • Whitewashing Washington State History: The 1889 Project, by Jack Fiander

  • Big Parcels: Modernist Planning in Washington State History, by Andrew M. Gardner and Becca C. Murphy

  • Patterns of Lithic Raw Materials and Heat-Treatment within Tryon Creek (35WA288), by Galen Miller-Atkins

  • Archaeological Wet Sites Indicate Salal Berries and Acorns were Staple Foods on the Central Northwest Coast, by Dale R. Croes

  • Edmond Meany’s Linguistics Suspicions, by Jay Miller

  • Books Received 


  • Editorial, by Darby C. Stapp

  • Blackfeet Stories of “Marriage” and “Death”: Untangling Settler-Colonial Conceptions of Blackfeet Identity, by Dianne F. Baumann

  • Setting Fire to Make Rain: An Ethnoecological Note, by Nathaniel D. Reynolds

  • An Approach for Explaining Technological and Functional Variation Between Four Montane Lithic Assemblages Near Mount Rainier, Washington, by Patrick T. McCutcheon, Joy D. Ferry, Greg C. Burtchard, and Megan K. Walsh

  • Archaeology and Cultural Identity: Native Latvian and Native American, by Astrida R. Blukis Onat

  • Elitism and White Supremacy in U.S. Animal Shelters: How the Impoundment and Re-Homing of Dogs is Policed Using the White Savior Complex, 2023 Northwest Anthropological Conference Student Paper Winner, by Tina Hope

  • Abstracts from the 74th Annual Northwest Anthropological Conference, Virtual, 7-9 April 2021

  • Journal of Northwest Anthropology List of Reviewers 2020-2022

  • Books Received


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