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 A Cultural Resource Overview for the 1990's, BLM Prineville District, Oregon

This report, compiled by INFOTEC Research, Inc., for the USDI Bureau of Land Management (BLM), is an updated overview of cultural resources on the Prineville District. The primary objective is to provide management guidance for the District during the 1990s, and thus focus on land use patterns and site distributions. Data utilized in this compilation are derived from a dBASE IV computer file of all the cultural resource sites recorded on the District, interviews with knowledgeable persons, ethnographic notes from Warm Springs Native American informants, and inspection of pertinent literature and archival records. The reliability of the computer file data is analyzed, and found to be quite variable in quality and content. Review and examination of ethnograpic, archaeological, and historic information reveals that human use in the District has been highly variable for the last 1 2,000 years. Analysis of the relationship between human land use and environmental variables indicates that many distributional patterns are apparent in the data. The cultural resource sites recorded on the District are assigned provisionally to BLM-defined resource use categories. Directions for future research are examined in the context of two theoretical domains, specific hypotheses are presented, and methods applicable to addressing the research topics discussed. Specific management guidance is provided, including a proposed list of prioritized actions. The bibliography includes not only references cited, but also all substantial literature pertaining to the District. The second volume consists of a printed version of the site forms encoded onto the dBASE IV computer file.

Document Type / Category
Cultural Resource Series
Document Collection
BLM Library
State/Office
National Office
Author
Lebow, Clayton G. et al.
Publication Date
1990