Marmes Rockshelter - by Virginia L Butler & John L Fagan & Pamela J Ford & Shawn Gibson & Joy Mastrogiuseppe & Guy Moura & Terry L Ozbun

About the Book

The Marmes Rockshelter is one of the most significant archaeological sites in the Pacific Northwest, not only due to its 11,000-year record of human use beginning in early Holocene times, but also because of the attention it generated toward American archaeology. This volume includes a complete analysis and interpretation of all of the available information from the site's rockshelter and floodplain areas.

Book Synopsis

The Marmes Rockshelter is one of the most significant archaeological sites in the Pacific Northwest, not only due to its 11,000-year record of human use, but also because of the attention it generated towards American archaeology throughout the Northwest, the nation, and the world. The political story behind the discovery and excavation of early Holocene human skeletal remains at the Marmes site encapsulates, and helped incite, changes in archaeological studies following passage of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966. This contributed to current Cultural Resources Management processes, driven by federal government mandates to preserve archaeological materials and information and to seek greater public involvement in management program. These mandates, in fact, have led full-circle to this study, a complete analysis and interpretation of all of the available information from the rockshelter and floodplain areas of the site, and completion of a final report some thirty years after the Marmes site was excavated.

Review Quotes

"[Marmes Rockshelter is] a major contribution to the archaeology of western North America."

--Journal of Anthropological Research

"All serious students of Northwest history and archaeology need this book."

--Statesman Review

"Certainly one of the best-written reports I've seen in some time."

--Tri-City Herald

"Everything that has been discovered about this site and the people who used it is here."

--Statesman Review

"If you have a serious interest in archaeology of this region, then you should have this book."

--Tri-City Herald