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

Paisley Caves: chronology and flexible foodways

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

Jenkins and colleagues report repeated dates and stratified tool deposits; the association of a dated sample with human activity still requires scrutiny. The Oregon museum presents Paisley as a research context within a changing regional record, not proof that the surrounding desert was empty before one arrival.

Cave sequence and chronological-evidence context Terminal Pleistocene and Holocene; proposed early evidence approximately 14,500 calendar years ago, subject to sample and context review Stratigraphy, radiocarbon samples, stone tools and plant or animal food remains Lakeview, Oregon, 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.
Resumo

Grutas, humedais, lares, rios e evidências

Conexões entre bacias, planaltos, lagos, rios e regiões vizinhas

Lakeview, Oregon, United States is a modern orientation, not an ancient capital or boundary. Selected cave activities do not reveal one regional government or a census of all households.

Organização política e escala comunitária

Selected cave activities do not reveal one regional government or a census of all households. Early Paisley dates require sample identification, contamination and stratigraphic checks; Western Stemmed Tradition is not a people or personal ancestry category.

Transformação posterior, património vivo e recepção moderna

Living communities and heritage institutions retain their own authority; this atlas cannot establish identity, ancestry, descent, recognition or membership. Tools and food remains cannot identify every ancient language or speaker; living peoples' own histories are not dependent on archaeological classification. Events after 1800 CE and modern research, reconstruction and stewardship are dated separately from the main historical context.

Dating and context Jenkins and colleagues report repeated dates and stratified tool deposits; the association of a dated sample with human activity still requires scrutiny.

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]
Museum interpretation The Oregon museum presents Paisley as a research context within a changing regional record, not proof that the surrounding desert was empty before one arrival.

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]
Flexible foods The multiproxy study assesses both plant and animal foods and the identification limits of different samples, rather than assuming exclusive big-game hunting.

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]
Sequência histórica

Uma cronologia breve e documentada

Estes marcos servem de orientação e não constituem uma história completa.

  1. Early evidence

    The published chronology extends beyond the main collection's rounded opening date; sample identity and archaeological association remain essential.

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  2. Distinct technologies

    Stemmed and fluted tool classifications need not represent a single linear technological succession.

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  3. Stratigraphic synthesis

    The research team published its radiocarbon and stone-tool analysis.

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  4. Food evidence reassessed

    A multiproxy study examined diet and sample-formation problems without establishing modern identity.

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Cultura e língua

Práticas alimentares, trabalho com fibras, agricultura, armazenamento e trabalho doméstico

Línguas mencionadas neste perfil

  • Tools and food remains cannot identify every ancient language or speaker; living peoples' own histories are not dependent on archaeological classification.

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

Research focus: Stratigraphy, radiocarbon samples, stone tools and plant or animal food remains.

Selected cave activities do not reveal one regional government or a census of all households.

Early Paisley dates require sample identification, contamination and stratigraphic checks; Western Stemmed Tradition is not a people or personal ancestry category.

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.

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Baseada no conteúdo aprovado do perfil As citações usam os identificadores de fontes abaixo Sem contexto de conta ou DNA

Interpretação de similaridade genética gerada por IA, sem comprovação de ancestralidade. Conteúdo informativo, sem caráter de orientação profissional.

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Antes de continuar, saiba que a análise será produzida por um modelo de IA. O conteúdo pode ser incompleto, impreciso ou incorreto. Ele descreve similaridade genética estatística com populações de referência e não comprova ancestralidade, etnia, identidade ou descendência. Destina-se apenas a fins informativos e educacionais e não constitui orientação médica, diagnóstica, genealógica, jurídica ou de outra natureza profissional. Não se baseie nele para tomar decisões de saúde, financeiras, jurídicas ou familiares. Na medida permitida pela legislação aplicável, a DNA Genics, S.L. não assume responsabilidade por perdas ou decisões decorrentes do uso desse conteúdo.

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Fontes usadas nesta 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

    Clovis Age Western Stemmed Projectile Points and Human Coprolites at the Paisley Caves

    Dennis L. Jenkins and colleagues; Science, university repository record · Institutional research, heritage interpretation or community account; brief attributed paraphrase · 2012-07

  10. S2

    Paisley Caves

    University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History · Institutional research, heritage interpretation or community account; brief attributed paraphrase · Undated institutional record; consulted 2026-10-20

  11. S3

    Younger Dryas and early Holocene subsistence in the northern Great Basin: multiproxy analysis of coprolites from the Paisley Caves, Oregon, USA

    John C. Blong and colleagues; Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences · Institutional research, heritage interpretation or community account; brief attributed paraphrase · 2020

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Revisión editorial: 20 outubro 2026

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