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Author
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
258 p.
Description
The public has long held a fascination with the archaeological work at the Hoko River due to the excellent preservation of artifacts at the site. Beginning in the 1970s, numerous newspaper articles, along with several television mini-documentaries, spread news about the ongoing excavations.
Author
Pub. Date
c1995
Physical Desc
xxi, 248 p. : ill., maps ; 28 cm.
Description
Three thousand years ago, Native Americans on Washington's Olympic Peninsula occupied a key seasonal fishing camp on a bar of the Hoko River, close to the south shore of the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Over the centuries, these ocean-oriented peoples discarded cordage, basketry, bent-wood fishhooks, woodworking tools, faunal and floral remains, and other cultural materials at a bend in the Hoko River. The perishable items were remarkably preserved in...
Author
Pub. Date
c1975
Physical Desc
unpaged : ill., maps ; 28 cm.
Description
The changing course of the Hoko River has exposed a water-saturated archaeological site with numerous layers of waterlogged vegetal materials and perishable artifacts. Using hydraulic techniques, i.e. water pumps, fire hoses, and garden hoses with fine adjust nozzles, the Hoko River site (45CA213) has been test excavated. Numerous perishable artifacts, including wood wedges, bent wood and composite fishhooks, fishing lines, unilaterally and bilaterally...
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