Prehistory: Plateau
At a glance:
- Series: American Indians Ready Reference
- Categories: Social Science, Geography, Archaeology
- Subcategories: Native Americans, American Indians, Anthropology, Anthropologists, Prehistoric Humans
- Curriculum: American Indian History, Canadian History
- Geographical Location: Canada, Oregon, Idaho, Washington
- Date: c. 9500 -c. 1800
Article abstract: The native cultures of the Plateau area were among the last to make contact with Europeans and thus maintained their own traditions the longest.
The Plateau culture area is enclosed between the Cascade mountain range to the west and the even higher northern Rockies to the east. The area is very dry; it is closely related to the Great Basin, but its dryness is tempered somewhat by its more northerly location (and therefore cooler temperatures) and the presence of two major river systems, the Columbia and the Fraser.
Alone among all the...
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