Great Basin and Columbia Plateau Worlds: Lakes, Rivers, and Living Homelands
Columbia Plateau and neighboring inland contexts (orientation only) · Perfil con revisión de fuentes

Marmes: Palouse landscapes and a flood-altered archive

Reviewed community and place names are preserved where supported; no otherwise unknown ancient self-designation is invented.

The WSU Press synthesis describes a long record of human use whose surviving collections and documentation require contextual interpretation. Washington State Parks connects the investigations with the Lower Monumental reservoir project, rather than a neutral discovery story.

River rockshelter and salvage-archive context Terminal Pleistocene and Holocene use; modern inundation and salvage research distinguished Stratified archaeological collections, food and tool evidence, field records and reservoir-impact history Pullman, Washington, United States (orientation only): approximate public-town or distant institutional orientation, not an excavation, burial, sacred-site, cave-entrance, private compound or vulnerable-deposit location; never a territorial, ethnic, linguistic, cultural, political, religious, sovereignty, hunting, gathering, farming, fishing, water-rights or route boundary. The orientation may be far from the archaeological context. No access, collecting, fishing or travel permission is implied.
Resumen

Cuevas, humedales, hogares, ríos y evidencias

Conexiones entre cuencas, mesetas, lagos, ríos y regiones vecinas

Pullman, Washington, United States is a modern orientation, not an ancient capital or boundary. A shelter sequence is not a census of all Palús households or one unchanged government.

Organización política y escala comunitaria

A shelter sequence is not a census of all Palús households or one unchanged government. Marmes archaeology and living Palús histories must remain distinct; no burial detail, human-remains classification, genetic inference or vulnerable-location coordinate is reproduced.

Transformación posterior, patrimonio vivo y recepción moderna

Living communities and heritage institutions retain their own authority; this atlas cannot establish identity, ancestry, descent, recognition or membership. Archaeological tools and deposits cannot identify every ancient speaker; living communities' own names and histories have independent authority. Events after 1800 CE and modern research, reconstruction and stewardship are dated separately from the main historical context.

Long but selective archive The WSU Press synthesis describes a long record of human use whose surviving collections and documentation require contextual interpretation.

Brief DNAGENICS AI-assisted paraphrase of registered evidence, not author or community endorsement. Retain chronological, sampling and interpretive limits.

Source review: 2026-10-20 [S1]
Salvage and inundation Washington State Parks connects the investigations with the Lower Monumental reservoir project, rather than a neutral discovery story.

Brief DNAGENICS AI-assisted paraphrase of registered evidence, not author or community endorsement. Retain chronological, sampling and interpretive limits.

Source review: 2026-10-20 [S2]
Collection responsibility WSU identifies the Marmes collection's institutional supervision and repository relationship; public cataloguing does not authorize unrestricted reuse.

Brief DNAGENICS AI-assisted paraphrase of registered evidence, not author or community endorsement. Retain chronological, sampling and interpretive limits.

Source review: 2026-10-20 [S3]
Secuencia histórica

Una cronología breve y documentada

Estos hitos sirven de orientación y no constituyen una historia completa.

  1. Successive activities

    The synthesis treats a long sequence of use, not one uninterrupted population.

  2. Salvage excavations

    State Parks records WSU investigations preceding reservoir flooding.

  3. Altered landscape

    Reservoir development changed preservation and access to the archaeological record.

  4. Synthesis of the archive

    The WSU Press record presents a renewed excavation synthesis.

Cultura e idioma

Prácticas alimentarias, trabajo con fibras, agricultura, almacenamiento y trabajo doméstico

Idiomas mencionados en este perfil

  • Archaeological tools and deposits cannot identify every ancient speaker; living communities' own names and histories have independent authority.

Familia lingüística: Language, material classification, political allegiance, residence and living identity are distinct; this record does not classify every ancient speaker.

Research focus: Stratified archaeological collections, food and tool evidence, field records and reservoir-impact history.

A shelter sequence is not a census of all Palús households or one unchanged government.

Marmes archaeology and living Palús histories must remain distinct; no burial detail, human-remains classification, genetic inference or vulnerable-location coordinate is reproduced.

No artifact, rock-art, sacred-site, burial or human-remains imagery or restricted knowledge is reproduced.

DNAGENICS provides AI-assisted, source-checked educational paraphrases. Cited authors, institutions and communities did not author or endorse this atlas. Public availability does not establish cultural consent or permission to reproduce objects, sacred knowledge or human remains. No imagery is reproduced. Specialist and community review is recommended; use the website contact channel for corrections, rights concerns or removal requests.

Guía de investigación con IA

Pregunta sobre este perfil revisado

La guía puede explicar y relacionar hechos que ya aparecen en esta página. No puede buscar en la web abierta, establecer identidad ni ciudadanía, ni evaluar ascendencia o información genética.

Basada en el contenido aprobado del perfil Las citas utilizan los identificadores de fuentes de abajo Sin contexto de cuenta ni de ADN

No introduzcas nombres, datos de contacto, información del árbol genealógico, identificadores de cuenta o kit, ni datos genéticos.

Registro de pruebas

Fuentes utilizadas en esta página

Prefer Indigenous governments, museums, heritage organizations, accountable field projects and public heritage institutions. Give source title, author or organization, date and stable link. Brief summaries are DNAGENICS AI-assisted interpretations, not author or community endorsement, reproduction permission or community review.

  1. C1

    A Brief History of CTUIR

    Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation · Institutional research, heritage interpretation or community account; brief attributed paraphrase · Undated institutional record; consulted 2026-10-20

  2. C2

    Tamástslikt Cultural Institute: public exhibition introduction

    Tamástslikt Cultural Institute, Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation · Institutional research, heritage interpretation or community account; brief attributed paraphrase · Undated institutional record; consulted 2026-10-20

  3. C3

    Expanding Paleoindian Diet Breadth: Paleoethnobotany of Connley Cave 5, Oregon, USA

    Katelyn N. McDonough, Jaime L. Kennedy, Richard L. Rosencrance, Justin A. Holcomb, Dennis L. Jenkins and Kathryn Puseman; American Antiquity · Institutional research, heritage interpretation or community account; brief attributed paraphrase · 2022

  4. C4

    Return to Fort Rock Cave: Assessing the Site's Potential to Contribute to Ongoing Debates About How and When Humans Colonized the Great Basin

    Thomas J. Connolly and colleagues; American Antiquity · Institutional research, heritage interpretation or community account; brief attributed paraphrase · 2017

  5. C5

    Xwísten Community Profile

    Xwísten, Bridge River Indian Band · Institutional research, heritage interpretation or community account; brief attributed paraphrase · 2014 web edition

  6. C6

    Introduction Lesson: Syilx History

    Okanagan Nation Alliance, Syilx 101 · Institutional research, heritage interpretation or community account; brief attributed paraphrase · Undated institutional record; consulted 2026-10-20

  7. C7

    History and Archaeology

    Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation · Institutional research, heritage interpretation or community account; brief attributed paraphrase · Undated institutional record; consulted 2026-10-20

  8. C8

    Early and Middle Archaic Projectile Point Typology and Chronology Across the Great Basin

    Bureau of Land Management Cultural Resource Series; Bryan Hockett and collaborators · Institutional research, heritage interpretation or community account; brief attributed paraphrase · 2022-12-21 institutional record

  9. S1

    Marmes Rockshelter

    Washington State University Press, excavation synthesis record · Institutional research, heritage interpretation or community account; brief attributed paraphrase · 2004

  10. S2

    Lyons Ferry State Park History

    Washington State Parks · Institutional research, heritage interpretation or community account; brief attributed paraphrase · Undated institutional record; consulted 2026-10-20

  11. S3

    Our Partner Agencies

    Washington State University Museum of Anthropology · Institutional research, heritage interpretation or community account; brief attributed paraphrase · Undated institutional record; consulted 2026-10-20

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Revisión editorial: 20 octubre 2026