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U. S. OBSIDIAN SOURCE CATALOG # WWW.SOURCECATALOG.COM
OREGON OBSIDIAN SOURCES
WHITEWATER RIDGE
ALTERNATE NAMES: Bear Valley, Foster Spring, John Day, Juniper Spring, Variety 1, Juniper Spring, Variety 2,
Little Bear Creek, Parish Cabin Campground, Seneca, Whitewater Spring, Whitewater Spring 2.
LOCATION - COUNTY: Grant, Malheur.
ACCESS AND OWNERSHIP: Malheur National Forest.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: Pam Endzweig, Don Hann, John Shaefer.
REFERENCES
Ambroz, Jessica A.
1997 Characterization of Archaeologically Significant Obsidian Sources in Oregon by Neutron Activation Analysis.
Unpublished Master’s Thesis, Department of Chemistry, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri.
Armitage, Charles L.
1995 An Archaeological Analysis of Central Oregon Upland Prehistory. Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of
Anthropology, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon.
Baxter, Paul W., Thomas J. Conolly, and Craig E. Skinner
2015 Obsidian Use in the Willamette Valley and Adjacent Western Cascades of Oregon. In Toolstone Geography of the
Pacific Northwest, edited by Terry L. Ozbun and Ron L. Adams, pp. 218-233. Archaeology Press, Simon Fraser
University, Burnaby, British Columbia.
Bennett, Roy B. and J. M. D'Auria
1974 The Application of Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy to Determining the Provenience of Obsidian. International
Journal of Applied Radiation and Isotopes 25:361-371.
Boula, Kathryn
2013 An Overview of the Drift Fence Site (35UM169): An Upland Camp in the Blue Mountains, Northeastern Oregon.
Current Archaeological Happenings in Oregon 38(1):8-24.
Bransford, Gordon and G. Head
1975 Report on an Obsidian Quarry Source and Associated Artifact Types in Central Oregon (Abstract). Washington
Archaeologist 19(2).
Cadena, Guadalupe P.
2012 Hunter-Gatherers, Mobility, and Obsidian Procurement: A View from the Malheur Headwaters, Northeast Oregon.
Unpublished Master's Thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas.
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The Malheur Headwaters, Northeast Oregon. Current Archaeological Happenings in Oregon 37(4):3-6.
Carlson, Roy L.
1994 Trade and Exchange in Prehistoric British Columbia. In Prehistoric Exchange Systems in North America, edited by
Timothy G. Baugh and Jonathon E. Ericson, pp. 307-361. Plenum Press, New York, New York.
Connolly, Thomas J., Craig E. Skinner, and Paul W. Baxter
2015 Ancient Trade Routes for Obsidian Cliffs and Newberry Volcano Toolstone in the Pacific Northwest. In Toolstone
Geography of the Pacific Northwest, edited by Terry L. Ozbun and Ron L. Adams, pp. 180-192. Archaeology Press,
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia.
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D'Auria, John M., Malcolm A. James, and Dorothy Godfrey-Smith
1992 A Library of Trace Element Characterisations for Volcanic Glasses from North-Western North America Using X-Ray
Fluorescence. Report prepared for the British Columbia Heritage Trust by the Department of Chemistry, Simon Fraser
University, British Columbia, Canada.
Endzweig, Pamela E.
1994 Late Archaic Variability and Change on the Southern Columbia Plateau: Archaeological Investigations in the Pine
Creek Drainage of the Middle John Day River, Wheeler County, Oregon. Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Department
of Anthropology, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon.
Erlandson, Jon M., R. E. Hughes, C. E. Skinner, M. L. Moss, and J. Boughton
1991 Trace Element Composition of Obsidian Artifacts from the Beaverdam Creek Site (35CR29), Central Oregon. Current
Archaeological Happenings in Oregon 16(2):9-11.
Ericson, Jonathon E.
1977 Evolution of Prehistoric Exchange Systems: Results of Obsidian Dating and Tracing. Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation,
University of California, Los Angeles, California.
1981
Exchange and Production Systems in Californian Prehistory: The Results of Hydration Dating and Chemical
Characterization of Obsidian Sources. BAR International Series 110, Oxford, England.
Fiebelkorn, Robin B., George W. Walker, Norman S. MacLeod, Edwin H. McKee, and James G. Smith
1982a An Index to K-Ar Age Determinations for the State of Oregon. U.S. Geological Open-File Report 82-596.
1982b Index to K-Ar Determinations for the State of Oregon. Isochron/West 37.
Kassa, Sonja C.
2014 The Archaeology of Obsidian Occurrence in Stone Tool Manufacture and Use Along the Mid-Columbia River,
Washington. Unpublished Master’s Thesis, Department of Resource Management, Central Washington University,
Ellensburg, Washington.
Kassa, Sonja C. and Patrick T. McCutcheon
2016 The Archaeology of Obsidian Occurrence in Stone Tool Manufacture and Use Along Two Reaches of the Northern
Mid-Columbia River, Washington. Journal of Northwest Anthropology 50:79-102.
Lyons, William H., Scott P. Thomas, and Craig E. Skinner
2001 Changing Obsidian Sources at the Lost Dune and McCoy Creek Sites, Blitzen Valley, Southeastern Oregon. Journal
of California and Great Basin Anthropology 23:273-296.
Minor, Rick
2013 Great Basin Obsidian at The Dalles: Implications for the Emergence of Elites in the Southwestern Plateau. Journal of
Northwest Anthropology 47:25-46.
Musil, Robert R. and Brian O'Neill
1997 Source and Distribution of Archaeological Obsidian in the Umpqua River Basin of Southwest Oregon. In
Contributions to the Archaeology of Oregon: 1995-1996, edited by Albert Oetting, pp. 123-162. Association of
Oregon Archaeologists Occasional Papers No. 6, Eugene, Oregon.
Parfitt, Anne B. and Patrick T. McCutcheon
2017 Chemical Sourcing of Obsidian Artifacts from the Grissom Site (45-KT-301) to Study Source Variability. Journal of
Northwest Anthropology 51:37-72.
Sappington, Robert L.
1981 A Progress Report on the Obsidian and Vitrophyre Sourcing Project. Idaho Archaeologist 4(4)4-17.
Skinner, Craig E.
1983 Obsidian Studies in Oregon: An Introduction to Obsidian and An Investigation of Selected Methods of Obsidian
Characterization Utilizing Obsidian Collected at Prehistoric Quarry Sites in Oregon. Unpublished Master's Terminal
Project, Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon.
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1995a
Obsidian Characterization Studies. In Archaeological Investigations, PGT-PG&E Pipeline Expansion Project, Idaho,
Washington, Oregon, and California, Volume V: Technical Studies, by Robert U. Bryson, Craig E. Skinner, and
Richard M. Pettigrew, pp. 4.1-4.54. Report prepared for Pacific Gas Transmission Company, Portland, Oregon, by
INFOTEC Research, Inc., Fresno, California, and Far Western Anthropological Research Group, Davis, California.
1995b Obsidian Hydration Studies. In Archaeological Investigations, PGT-PG&E Pipeline Expansion Project, Idaho,
Washington, Oregon, and California, Volume V: Technical Studies, by Robert U. Bryson, Craig E. Skinner, and
Richard M. Pettigrew, pp. 5.1-5.51. Report prepared for Pacific Gas Transmission Company, Portland, Oregon, by
INFOTEC Research, Inc., Fresno, California, and Far Western Anthropological Research Group, Davis, California.
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