| Title | Brush Fences and Basket Traps: the Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Tidewater Weir Fishing on the Oregon Coast |
| Publication Type | Thesis |
| Year of Publication | 2002 |
| Authors | Byram, Robert Scott |
| Academic Department | Dept. of Anthropology |
| Degree | Ph. D. |
| Pagination | 359 p. |
| University | University of Oregon |
| City | Eugene, Or. |
| Type of Work | Doctoral Dissertation |
| Call Number | Available through Summit, available through Interlibrary Loan, Digital Open Access |
| Keywords | archeology, indigenous peoples, theses, weirs |
| Notes | Focuses on Coquille River and Yaquina Bay sites. Chapter 3 gives an extensive and valuable description of fishing sites and methods used by the Alsea people, but a 1995 motorboat survey of the Alsea River did not reveal any identifiable remains of fishing weirs. "It appears that slough channels in Alsea Bay have been greatly altered by infilling, road construction, diking and draining, and the flooding of a large slough for a lake. Given the numerous historic accounts of weir fishing in this estuary (Chapter 3), historic landscape alterations may best explain the lack of exposed sites." (p.202-203) |
| URL | https://works.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1004&context=byram |
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