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02/09/2026

Journal of Northwest Anthropology Memoir 27, Bison Procurement and Processing at a Complex Hunting Camp in the Columbia Plateau of Eastern Washington, by Gerald F. Schroedl with contributions by R. Lee Lyman and Carl F. Gustafson, is now available on the JONA Storefront and Amazon.com for $25.99.

Based on excavations at site 45GA17 in the Little Goose Dam Reservoir conducted in 1966 and 1968, this volume presents analysis of faunal remains and associated stone tools and manufacturing debris dating to approximately 2000 B.P. The remains of at least eight bison, documented butchering features, and substantial evidence of tool production support interpretation of the site as a complex hunting camp rather than a Plains-style primary kill site. The study contributes to broader understandings of subsistence practices and site organization in the Columbia Plateau.

The publication coincides with the 60th anniversary of the 1966 excavations, marking six decades since the initial field investigations at 45GA17.

JONA thanks the authors for their contribution to our Memoir Series and to the archaeological record of Pacific Northwest prehistory.

For additional information about Memoir 27 and the JONA Memoir Series, please visit: .

02/03/2026

The Journal of Northwest Anthropology is pleased to announce the forthcoming publication of Memoir 27, Bison Procurement and Processing at a Complex Hunting Camp in the Columbia Plateau of Eastern Washington, by Gerald F. Schroedl, with contributions by R. Lee Lyman and Carl F. Gustafson.

Based on excavations at site 45GA17 in the Little Goose Dam Reservoir conducted in 1966 and 1968, this volume presents analysis of faunal remains and associated stone tools and manufacturing debris dating to approximately 2000 B.P. The remains of at least eight bison, documented butchering features, and substantial evidence of tool production support interpretation of the site as a complex hunting camp rather than a Plains-style primary kill site. The study contributes to broader understandings of subsistence practices and site organization in the Columbia Plateau.

The publication coincides with the 60th anniversary of the 1966 excavations, marking six decades since the initial field investigations at 45GA17.

Memoir 27 will be available this week through the JONA Storefront and Amazon for $25.99.

For additional information about Memoir 27 and the JONA Memoir Series, please visit: .

12/02/2025

Publish with the Journal of Northwest Anthropology! Submissions for article and book-length manuscripts are open year-round with no service or reading fees.

We welcome contributions of professional quality concerning anthropological research in northwestern North America. Theoretical and interpretive studies and bibliographic works are preferred, although highly descriptive studies will be considered if they are theoretically significant. The primary criterion guiding selection of papers will be how much new research the contribution can be expected to stimulate or facilitate.

Submit an abstract at https://www.northwestanthropology.com/submissions. Our Style Guide can also be accessed at this link.

If you feel you have a complete manuscript which is ready to be submitted, or have any questions about the submission process, please email: [email protected]

11/25/2025

The Journal of Northwest Anthropology, Volume 59, Number 2, is now available to subscribers on our website through the Current Issues page. Print subscribers will receive their hard copies in the coming weeks.

JONA thanks the authors whose contributions help further anthropological scholarship across the region.

Support Northwest anthropology and ongoing research by subscribing through the JONA Storefront. Subscriptions start at $30 per year.

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11/13/2025

Releasing soon! The Journal of Northwest Anthropology, Volume 59, Number 2, will be published in the coming weeks. Don’t miss the Fall 2025 issue! Support Northwest anthropology and research by subscribing through the JONA Storefront. Digital and print subscriptions start at $30 per year.

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05/30/2025

The Journal of Northwest Anthropology is pleased to announce several new publications for Spring 2025.

Memoirs 24, 25, and 26 have been added to our growing repertoire of book-length publications, expanding the journal's ongoing contribution to Pacific Northwest anthropological research:

* Memoir 24: "Seaburg's Story Studies: Collected Works of William R. Seaburg," edited by Jay Miller, Laurel Sercombe, and Susanne J. Young;
* Memoir 25: "Generationally-Linked Archaeology: 'Living-Off-The-Land' for 4,000 Years on the Salish Sea," by Ed Eugene Carriere and Dale R. Croes;
* Memoir 26: "Exploring Faunal Assemblages to Identify Ethnic Groups: Makahs, Quileutes, and Precontact Shell Middens on the Northwestern Olympic Peninsula, Washington," by Gary C. Wessen, Stephan R. Samuels, and David R. Huelsbeck.

In addition, the Spring 2025 issue of JONA, Volume 59, Number 1, is now available to digital and print subscribers.

For more information on these new releases, please visit: www.northwestanthropology.com/publications

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05/20/2025

The Journal of Northwest Anthropology is pleased to announce the publication of JONA Memoir 24. Seaburg’s Story Studies: Collected Works of William R. Seaburg, edited by Jay Miller, Laurel Sercombe, and Susanne J. Young, is available for purchase on the JONA Storefront and Amazon for $29.95.

When Bill (William R. Seaburg, Ph.D.) passed from Parkinson’s complications at the age of 75, he left behind assorted publications, talks, and drafts which have been compiled here for this memoir, Seaburg’s Story Studies. The logical sections within Story Studies derive from the materials themselves, gathered into five sections, including a regional folklore bibliography.

Bill was a consummate scholar of ethnohistory, folklore, and Native literature, whose work reflected a thoughtful and meticulous approach to the study of Native languages, customs, and communities in western Oregon and Washington. Bill Seaburg, as most knew him, was devoted to Pacific Northwest anthropology. Bill, more than many, was a bridge to the earlier generations of Northwest anthropologists. Through his unique relationship to Elizabeth Jacobs, he was able to tap into the ideas and research of her husband Melville, and their other contemporaries. Whether it was through his linguistic research, his story telling analyses, or his ethnohistory work, Seaburg’s Story Studies has much to offer Northwest anthropology.

Seaburg’s Story Studies: Collected Works of William R. Seaburg is an important addition to our growing list of JONA Memoirs. Anyone who takes a day to read through Seaburg’s Story Studies will be richer for the experience, and as a result, a more rounded and complete Pacific Northwest anthropologist.

05/07/2025

The Journal of Northwest Anthropology, Volume 59, Number 1, is now available. The latest issue of JONA has been published to our website. Subscribers can access the Spring 2025 issue on the Current Issues page. Hard copy subscribers can expect their journal in the coming weeks.

The contents of the Spring 2025 issue include:

“Finding Home Ground: Named Places and Political Geography in the Pacific Northwest,” by Astrida R. Blukis Onat;

“Structural Constraints and the Fertility of Japanese Immigrants in the Pacific Northwest During the Early 1900s,” by Akiko Nosaka and Donna L. Leonetti;

“Taxonomically Diagnostic Skeletal Characters Used to Identify Zooarchaeological Mammalian Specimens in the Interior Pacific Northwest,” by R. Lee Lyman;

“New Data on Personal Knives Found on Faddei Severnyi Island and in Simsa Bay,” by Elena A. Okladnikova, translated by Richard L. Bland;

“Ethnobotany of Western Washington at 80: Commemorating Erna Gunter’s Pioneering Text, Updates, and Varied Impacts,” by Jay Miller.

Don’t want to miss the Spring 2025 issue? Want to support Northwest anthropology and research? Visit the JONA Storefront to become a digital or print subscriber! Annual subscriptions start at just $30/year. Visit our website for more details.

Standalone volumes and publications can be purchased on Amazon and the JONA Storefront.

04/21/2025

The Journal of Northwest Anthropology is excited to announce the publication of Memoir 26.

Exploring Faunal Assemblages to Identify Ethnic Groups: Makahs, Quileutes, and Precontact Shell Middens on the Northwestern Olympic Peninsula, Washington by Gary C. Wessen, Stephan R. Samuels, and David R. Huelsbeck is now available for purchase on the JONA Storefront and Amazon.

Visit www.northwestanthropology.com/publications for more information or www.northwestanthropology.com/storefront to purchase a print copy.

04/14/2025

The Journal of Northwest Anthropology Memoir 24, Seaburg’s Story Studies: Collected Works of William R. Seaburg, edited by Jay Miller, Laurel Sercombe, and Susanne J. Young, will be releasing soon!

When Bill (William R. Seaburg, Ph.D.) passed from Parkinson’s complications at the age of 75, he left behind materials for two books, as well as assorted publications, talks, and drafts which have been compiled here for this memoir, Seaburg’s Story Studies. The logical sections within Story Studies derive from the materials themselves, gathered into five sections, including a regional folklore bibliography. It comprises publications, conference presentations, progress reports, and class materials.

Bill was a consummate scholar of ethnohistory, folklore, and Native literature, whose work reflected a thoughtful and meticulous approach to the study of Native languages, customs, and communities in western Oregon and Washington. Bill Seaburg, as most knew him, was devoted to Pacific Northwest anthropology. Bill, more than many, was a bridge to the earlier generations of Northwest anthropologists. Through his unique relationship to Elizabeth Jacobs, he was able to tap into the ideas and research of her husband Melville, and their other contemporaries. Whether it was through his linguistic research, his story telling analyses, or his ethnohistory work, Seaburg’s Story Studies has much to offer Northwest anthropology.

Seaburg’s Story Studies: Collected Works of William R. Seaburg is an important addition to our growing list of Journal of Northwest Anthropology Memoirs. Our goal with single-author memoirs is to highlight the ideas and accomplishments of twentieth century anthropologists so that their ideas and accomplishments will not be forgotten. We are helping accomplish this goal by compiling an anthropologist’s work—much of which was likely published in small and often discontinued journals—into one volume, which we will make available to our community at low cost. Anyone who takes a day to read through Seaburg’s Story Studies will be richer for the experience, and as a result, a more rounded, complete Pacific Northwest anthropologist.

JONA Memoir 24 will be available for purchase in Spring 2025 on the JONA Storefront and Amazon.com.

04/07/2025

The Journal of Northwest Anthropology Memoir 26 will be published soon. Exploring Faunal Assemblages to Identify Ethnic Groups: Makahs, Quileutes, and Precontact Shell Middens on the Northwestern Olympic Peninsula, Washington, by Gary C. Wessen, Stephan R. Samuels, and David R. Huelsbeck, will soon be available for purchase on the JONA Storefront and Amazon for $49.95.

Quileute peoples of the Northwestern Olympic Peninsula used the marine environment suggest that these two groups targeted different combinations of the locally available fish, mammals, and birds. Vertebrate faunal assemblages from late precontact shell middens in each group’s territory are used to explore whether the reported differences are apparent in this data. The effort is complicated by substantial differences in the sample sizes currently available for each group and statistical tests are used in order to better understand these problems and make valid comparisons. The very large fish and mammal samples offer detailed insights, while the much smaller bird assemblages are more problematic. After detailed considerations of the bone assemblages directly, interpretations of the probable cultural behaviors of both late precontact Makahs and Quileutes are considered. While there are many strong similarities in the assemblages from the two groups of sites, some clear differences are apparent. Makah assemblages contain substuantial evidence of both nearshore and offshore fish and a broad range of marine and terrestrial mammals. In contrast, Quileute assemblages contain a much higher proportion of nearshore fish and much more limited ranges of both marine and terrestrial mammals. The observed differences are largely consistent with the ethnographic accounts and suggest additional details about some of these behaviors that are not described in those accounts. The authors believe that these conclusions are supported by the existing data sets but recognize that the substantial differences in the sample sizes remain a concern. As such, the authors offer recommendations for both further sampling of sites in both territories and further studies that can be done with the existing samples.

04/04/2025

The Journal of Northwest Anthropology, Volume 59, Number 1, is scheduled for publication in the coming weeks.

Don’t want to miss the Spring 2025 issue? Want to support Northwest anthropology and research? Visit the JONA Storefront to become a digital or print subscriber. Annual subscriptions start at just $30/year.

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