David & Jennifer Chance and Associates
Publications
1990 “The Unbroken Weir.” Chapter 2 in Land of the
Quinault, Pauline Capoeman, Jacqueline Storm, Larry Workman, &
David Chance, eds., Taholah, Quinault Indian Nation. Contours of the
life of the Quinaults and salient events of the 18th and 19th
centuries. Explains the Quinault attack on the crew of the Spanish
ship Sonora in 1775.
1989 Archaeology of the Hatiuhpuh Village. Senior
author, with Jennifer Chance, R. Kirk Steinhorst, S.B. Whitwer, and
Elaine Anderson. Walla Walla, Corps of Engineers. 239 pp., 76
illustrations. A village of oval benched houses on the lower Snake
River, dated to 4,200 years ago, with deliberately destroyed
(‘killed’) milling stones. Further development and testing of
the Mean Ratio Distance comparison and clustering of assemblages over
the Columbia Plateau. With the collaboration of mathematicians
Steinhorst and Whitwer.
— “The Place of Fort Colvile.” A chapter in The
Colville Collection, Patrick Graham, ed., Colville, Examiner
Press. The historical significance of the Hudson’s Bay Company
fort and district headquarters, a resting stop on the first
transcontinental trade and post route.
1986 People of the Falls. Kettle Falls Historical
Center. 110 pp., 56 illustrations. Illustrated by Jennifer Chance.
Placed on the "Washington Reading List" by the Washington
Centennial Commission. Describes more than 9,000 years of human
history at the falls based on our work that began in 1967.
1985 Kettle Falls, 1978: Further Archaeological Excavations in
Lake Roosevelt. University of Idaho Anthropological
Reports 84. Senior author, with Jennifer Chance, Richard Casteel,
Craig Henry, James McKie, Robert Sappington and Darby Stapp. 387 pp.,
110 illustrations. Further delineation of the upper Columbia
prehistoric sequence and the description of the Chekwo Aspect of the
Sinaikst Period. The periodization is expanded and clarified using
some forty-five radiocarbon dates.
— Archaeology at Spalding, 1978 and
1979,” University of Idaho Anthropological
Reports 85. Senior author, with Jennifer Chance, Elaine Anderson,
Richard Casteel, Bruce Cochran, and John White. 199 pp., 64
illustrations. The discovery of the early Lapwai component including
burned bones of the extinct short-faced bear, Arctodus simus,
and other Pleistocene fauna located just above the Glacier Peak tephra
(volcanic ash). Also, excavation of houses of the Ineet Village of
the first millenium CE with food milling assemblages indicating
two-family dwellings.
1981 Sentinel of Silence:
A Brief History of Fort Spokane. Commissioned and published by the Pacific
Northwest National Parks Association, Seattle. 59 pp., 30 illustrations.
Army life at an infantry and cavalry post next to large reservations on the
northern edge of the Columbia Plateau, 1880-98.
1980 “Historical Center Can
Be a Reality.” Columbia River Times. Serialized. Promotes the
establishment of a visitor center.
1979 “Kettle Falls 1977: Archaeology in and beside Lake
Roosevelt,” University of Idaho Anthropological
Reports 53. Senior author, with Jennifer Chance. Appendices by
James O’Neill and Craig Henry. 182 pp., 71 illustrations. The
discovery of a microblade industry within aeolian deposits on a high
terrace overlooking the falls. Introduction of the Mean Ratio
Distance method for the multivariate comparison of assemblages from
Kettle Falls.
1978 A review of Stanley South’s Method and Theory in
Historical Archaeology (Academic Press), in
Historical Archaeology 11.
1977 “Kettle Falls 1972: Excavations in Lake
Roosevelt,” University of Idaho Anthropological
Reports 31. Senior author, with Jennifer Chance & John
Fagan. Appendices by Donald Grayson, Thomas Mulinski, and Glen Rice.
246 pp., 80 illustrations. Discovery and analysis of the first
elements of the sequence of human history along the upper Columbia
River. Quantitative and stylistic indicators of two long-duration
traditions at Kettle Falls over the past nine millenia: the break
between the two traditions falls between 4000 and 3000 years ago, at a
time of low population density.
— “Kettle Falls 1976:
Archaeology in Lake Roosevelt,” University of Idaho Anthropological Reports
39. Senior author, with Jennifer Chance. 241 pp., 98 illustrations. The
search for an assemblage at Fort Colvile from the 1820’s. Discovery of three
successive blacksmith shops; that from the 1830’s had the most varied
assemblage.
1976 Kanaka Village/Vancouver Barracks:
1974. University of Washington Reports in Highway
Archaeology 3. Senior author, with Jennifer Chance, Jacqueline
Storm and J. S. Addington. 306 pp., 103 illustrations. The first
well-stratified, superimposed 19th century assemblages recovered in
the Pacific Northwest; the location and partial excavation of the
house built by Quartermaster Capt. Rufus Ingalls for himself and his
friend, Lt. Ulysses Grant. Presents a method for using window glass
for dating, further developed by Karl Roenke.
— “Material History at Vancouver,” Clark County History 17:4-20.
1974 “Exploratory Excavations at Spalding Mission,
1973,” University of Idaho Anthropological
Reports 14. Senior author, with Jennifer Chance. 110 pp., 15
illustrations. The excavation of some of the 1838-48 Nez Perce
Mission buildings: the mission residence & student dormitory, the
first print shop of the Pacific Northwest, school, mills, and
irrigation canals of missionaries Henry and Eliza Spalding of the
American Board Mission of Boston.
1973 “Influences of the Hudson’s Bay Company on the
Native Cultures of the Colvile District.” Northwest
Anthropological Research Notes, Memoir 2. 166 pp.,
maps & charts. Analyzes historical data to demonstrate a
symbiotic relationship that changed tribal religion, politics, wealth,
population, and social structure, 1785-1870.
— “Balancing the Fur
Trade at Fort Colvile,” The Record 34:23-35. Illustrated. The
business methods and records of the Hudson’s Bay Company trade.
1972 “Fort Colvile: The Structure of a Hudson’s Bay
Company Post, 1825 to 1871, and After,” University of Idaho
Anthropological Reports 4. Commissioned by the National Park
Service. 83 pp., 9 illustrations.
1967 “Archaeological Survey of Coulee Dam National
Recreation Area,” Washington State University
Laboratory of Anthropology Report of Investigations 42. 87 pp., 6
illustrations. For the National Park Service. Shows the need for
drastic revision of the findings made in 1939-41, including a much
greater time depth. Diagnostics are strongly affected by the types of
stone used to make tools.
Reports and Papers:
1998 “The Puget’s Sound Agricultural Company and the
Nineteenth-century Settlement of Western Washington.” 335
pp. & 20 illustrations. Commissioned by the Air Force through the
National Park Service. The central role of a subsidiary of the
Hudson's Bay Company in opening western Washington to British,
Canadian, and white American settlement. How company lands and herds
were overwhelmed by Euro-American squatters and homesteaders, and by
the Yakima War.
1996 “Archaeological
Evaluations at Warren and the South Fork of the Salmon River.” Illustrated by
Jennifer Chance. For Milford Engineering Inc. and Midvale Telephone Co. A
map and tests of one of the first towns of Idaho; discovery and tests of a
fishing & hunting site with 7,000 years of history at the bottom of the
South Fork canyon; the second and third components have small pit-houses. A
floor of the third held dense deer bone and a grooved maul of coastal type.
1995 “The Fur Trade of the Upper Columbia River,
1792-1871.” 551 pp. Commissioned by the Bonneville Power
Administration and the National Park Service. From the first contacts
with the Kutenai to the closing of the Fort Colvile District in
1871. How the fur traders were pushed to the margins by the Oregon
Treaty of 1846, by subsequent warfare, and then by white settlement.
— “That Distant Murmur:
How the Earliest People of Kettle Falls were Discovered.” Paper read to the
Friends of the Spokane Public Library. On the Shonitkwu Period assemblages
found in the early Holocene gravels on Hayes Island at Kettle Falls.
— “Cabins in Clearings: Homesteading in the Pend
Oreille Country of Washington.” Commissioned by the Colville
National Forest. 278 pp., 37 illustrations. How settlement was
accomplished under several land laws; the immense difficulties faced
by the settlers; the role of women in homesteading; the
government’s buy-back of homesteads to create national forests.
— “Riddles of a Stagecoach Station and Other Questions
at the City of Rocks.” Senior author, with Jennifer Chance.
Written for the National Park Service. 127 pp., 85 illustrations.
Sorts out the myths and facts of a mountain-pass stage station
excavated on the old Kelton Stage Road.
1993 “Quest on a Bald
Mountain.” 24 pp. A study of human occupation distribution over central Idaho, with altitude, distance and other correlates to account for occupation density
variations over the last eight millenia. Written for the Forest Service. 24
pp.
— “An Ethnographic Review of the Sylvis Trail.”
Commissioned by the Plum Creek Timber Co. 58 pp., 34 illustrations.
Evidence of ancient trails and sacred activities of the Kalispel
Indians along the crest of the Selkirks. Combines surveys, Kalispel
informant data, ethnographic notes, and data from the National
Archives.
1992 “Archaeology at City of Rocks.” Senior author,
with Jennifer Chance. Commissioned by the National Park Service. 127
pp., 45 illustrations. Discovery of ceramic, lithic, and structural
evidence of the Fremont people at rock shelters; study of the ancient
harvesting of pinyon nuts in an earlier open midden. The evidence
supports the thesis that pinyon has been growing in northern Utah and
southern Idaho for less than 3,000 years.
1991 “An Archaeological Estimate of the Slawntehus Site.”
Senior author, with Jennifer Chance. Commissioned by the National Park
Service. 76 pp., 48 illustrations. Study of a single component from about
7000 years ago recovered from an eroding terrace overlooking the Colville River. A description & illustration of the diagnostics and discussion of the
problems of stratigraphy and chronology.
— “Palus History, Residence and Political Leadership,
ca. 1855-1940.” Commissioned by the Colville Confederated Tribes
as an exhibit for US v Oregon in the U.S. District Court
for Oregon. 39 pp. Documents the chieftainship and movements of the
Palus people to the Colville Reservation.
— “The Lumber Industry of
Washington’s Pend Oreille Valley, 1888-1941.” Commissioned by the Colville National Forest. 359 pp., 68 illustrations. About the Panhandle Lumber, Diamond
Match, Ohio Match, and smaller companies, the connections between the
homesteaders and lumbering, and the ideology and tactics of the Industrial
Workers of the World (Wobblies). Uses transcribed oral histories and
publications of the Pend d'Oreille Historical Society, company records, and
homestead files.
— “The Archaeological and Historical Reconnaissance
of Six Candidate Sites for a Ground Wave Emergency Network Relay Node
near Rockford, Idaho.” Report to SRI International and the Air
Force. 81 pp., 20 illustrations. Addresses the concept of
cultural landscape.” Locates the wagon ruts and footpaths of the
northern “Goodale Cutoff” to the Oregon Trail.
1990 “A Review of
North-central Oregon History and Historical Archaeology.” Written for the
Bureau of Land Management. 66 pp. The research potential of homesteads,
ranches, sheep herding, range wars, and mining; literature review and
description of the holdings of several county museums.
— Maps and photography of
logging camps, dams, and log flumes of the Panhandle Lumber Company and Diamond
Match in the LeClerc Basin of the Selkirks, produced for the Forest Service.
— Composite map of the historic buildings at military Fort
Spokane, produced for the National Park Service. Based upon surveys
and National Archives research.
— “The Archaeological
Reconnaissance of the City of Rocks Reserve.” Senior author, with Jennifer
Chance. Commissioned by the National Park Service. 110 pp., 4 illustrations.
Prehistoric and historic sites along the California Trail and its Salt Lake
Alternate. Photography and description of the inscriptions by the overland
emigrants.
1989 “The Tubaduka and the
Kamuduka Shoshoni of the City of Rocks and Surrounding Country.” Commissioned
by the National Park Service. Describes the people who lived around the
Albion, Goose Creek and Raft River ranges, from historical sources and
ethnography. 78 pp.
— “Archaeological
Enquiries at Milner, Idaho.” Senior author, with Jennifer Chance.
Commissioned by the Idaho Power Company. 100 pp., 34 illustrations. The study
and mapping of parts of the main Oregon Trail and its collateral features, and
of later gold-mining camps.
— “Investigations into
the Archaeological Potential of the Timbered Tracts Owned by the Nez Perce
Tribe of Idaho.” Commissioned by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. 82 pp., 31
illustrations. Documents Nez Perce agricultural homesteads of the early 20th
century.
— “Archaeological Tests
in Three Prehistoric Villages at Spalding, Idaho.” Senior author, with
Jennifer Chance and Norman Bowers. Report to the National Park Service. 73
pp., 8 illustrations. Locates villages of three components at the mouth of
Lapwai Creek.
1988 “A Review of the
Archaeology of the Nez Perce Country.” Senior author, with Jennifer Chance
& Elmer Paul. Written for the National Park Service. 141 pp., 20
illustrations. Critiques the archaeology accomplished to date, and suggests
new directions.
— “Interpretations of
Selected Kalispel Valley Artifacts.” Report to Washington State University, 15 pp. Locates the site of the “Pend Oreille Bay” bateau camp of the HBC on
the brigade route between Fort Colvile and Flathead House.
— “A Survey and Interpretation of the Archaeological
and Historical Features of the White Bird Battlefield.” Senior
author, with Jennifer Chance. Commissioned by the National Park
Service. 115 pp., 28 maps and illustrations. Fieldwork supports the
conclusion that the battle began farther south than usually thought,
and that it was more a Nez Perce victory than a blunder of the
army. Breastworks and grave sites from the battle were discovered.
1987 “The Nez Perce
Place-Names of Elmer Paul.” 23 pp. & four maps. With Elmer Paul and
Jennifer Chance. Commissioned by the National Park Service. Lists and locates
some 400 place-names known to Paul, with etymologies. Clarifies band
locations, and supports the existence of dominant villages with satellites.
Salish place-names are found in the eastern area, and Waiilatpuan (Cayuse) names
occur on the west, suggesting recent Nez Perce expansion.
— “Archaeological
Explorations at St. Paul’s Mission.” Senior author, with James Thomson &
Jennifer Chance. Commissioned by the National Park Service. 15 pp., 4
illustrations. Confirms the location of the original church.
— “A View of the Slippy Assemblage.” Report of the
Bowers Laboratory to the Bureau of Land Management. Description of a
Tucannon Phase (ca. 2000 BCE) assemblage next to a spring at about
5000 feet, with a center-polished milling stone.
1986 “Archaeological Tests
at Spalding, Idaho.” Report of the Bowers Laboratory to the National Park
Service. A second attempt to find the foundations and wheel-pit of the
Spalding gristmill.
— “Beyond Theology: the Agricultural and Crafts
Instruction of Henry and Eliza Spalding." Paper presented to an
NPS seminar at Whitman College on missionary influences in Pacific
Northwest history. How the Spaldings stressed agriculture, domestic
arts, and literacy, placing themselves at the very beginning of
agricultural missions.
1985 “Sources for the History of St. Paul’s Mission of
the Society of Jesus at Kettle Falls, Washington.” Commissioned by
the National Park Service. 23 pp. of annotated bibliography and
descriptions of archival collections to support a monograph.
— “The Excavation of the
‘Root Cellar’ at Fort Spokane.” Senior author, with Jennifer Chance. Report
of the Bowers Laboratory to the National Park Service. Shows that the cellar
was actually part of an earlier quartermaster warehouse.
— “The Amphibolite
Whetstones of the Fishery Site.” A report to the National Park Service. Five
glacial erratics used to sharpen fish spears also exhibit cup-marks, an
unexplained "artifact" found from northwestern Europe to eastern North America.
1984 The Evolution of Intent at Fort Lawton.
Commissioned by the City of Seattle through Geo-Recon International.
110 pp., 12 illustrations. The purposes of this army post changed
from serving as a coastal mortar battery to check British and Japanese
naval threats, to processing soldiers for the Pacific during World War
II.
— “Archaeological Tests
of the Blacksmith Shop at Fort Lapwai.” Report to the Dept. of Housing and
Urban Development. Horizontal patterning in and around the shop from density
contouring shows a preference for the sunny side of the building.
1983 “Who, actually, were
the Pioneers of 1880?” Paper read to the "Pioneer Picnic" of the
Stevens County Historical Society, Colville. Census information reveals that
the majority of the 19th-century homesteaders in the Colville Valley were of Indian or “mixed-race” affiliation.
1982 “Kanaka Village/Vancouver Barracks,
1975,” University of Washington Reports in Highway
Archaeology 7. Senior author, with Jennifer Chance, Caroline
Carley, Karl Gurcke, Timothy Jones, George Ling, Michael Pfeiffer,
Karl Roenke, Jacqueline Storm, Robert Thomas, and Charles Troup. 322
pp., 93 illustrations. Discovery of a small HBC fort beside the
Columbia River. Illustration of changes in the detailed cultural and
natural stratigraphy of the filled-in Kanaka Village pond.
Descriptions of artifact classes, and type sequences of trade beads,
clay pipes, glass, etc.
— “The Slawntehus Period.”
Paper read to the 35th annual Northwest Anthropological Conference,
Burnabay. An expanded definition of the period 5000-8000 BP on the upper
Columbia River, the parochialism of assemblages, the weakness of the fisheries,
and the discontinuity of such diagnostic artifacts as the microblades.
1981 “The Kootenay Fur Trade
and its Establishments: 1795-1871.” Commissioned by the Army Corps of
Engineers. 118 pp. The sources indicate there were at least nine fur-trading
forts and posts in the northern Rocky Mountains linked to the Kutenai Indians,
1807 to 1871.
— “The Colville Tribe,”
and "The Spokane Tribe." Two chapters in A Cultural Resource
Overview for the Colville and Idaho Panhandle National Forests and the Bureau
of Land Management. L. Hudson, ed., Cultural Resource Consultants,
Sandpoint. Vol. 1, pp. 89-131.
1980 “Research Questions and
Approaches for the Middle Columbia River Area.” Commissioned by the Corps of
Engineers. 48 pp. Evaluates the potential for archaeology above the shores of
the John Day pool on the Columbia, and how it might contribute to the large
gaps in the sequence at The Dalles.
— “Observations on the Recent Prehistory of Kettle
Falls.” Paper read to the 33rd annual Northwest
Anthropological Conference. On the Chekwo assemblages of the Sinaikst
Period, the heat treatment of brown into maroon-colored argillite, and
the stone-lined hearths.
1978 “A New Variation in Kettle Falls Prehistory.” Paper read to the 31st annual Northwest
Anthropological Conference, Pullman. On the Mission Point component with its
microblade industry and the indications of physical insecurity.
— “The Influence of the Hudson’s Bay Company in the
Kootenai Valley.” In Waters of Wealth: A Seminar on the
Kootenai Region of the United States and Canada, Selected
Transcripts. Seattle District, Army Corps of Engineers.
— “Archaeological Tests
and Excavations at the Agency Office Area, Spalding, Idaho: a Summary of the
work of July and August, 1978.” Interim report to the National Park Service.
The site of the Nez Perce Agency before and during the Nez Perce War of 1877.
1977 “Influences of the Hudson’s Bay Company on the Kutenai.” Paper read to the Kootenai Seminar, Libby, Montana. On a symbiotic relationship in which firearms traded for furs ensured the
survival of the Kutenai in their struggles with the Piegans.
1975 “The Early Horizon at
Kettle Falls.” Paper read to the 28th annual meeting of the
Northwest Anthropological Conference, Seattle. The unprecedented Shonitkwu
assemblages in the early Holocene gravels on Hayes Island; their Alaskan and
Asian affinities.
— “Kanaka
Village/Vancouver Barracks and the Objectives of Historical Archaeology."
Paper read to the 28th annual meeting of the Northwest Anthropological
Conference, Seattle. A quantitative approach correlated with stratigraphy
yields increased contrast between assemblages and components.
1973 "Archival Data on
Fur Trade Contacts in the Colvile District of the HBC." Paper read to the
annual meeting of the Canadian Archaeological Association, Burnaby. The
richness of these sources has not been recognized.
1971 "The Hudson's Bay Company's Impact upon the Indians of the Colvile District." Paper read
to the 24th annual Northwest Anthropological Conference, Moscow. The HBC
exerted largely benign influences over many facets of Native life, such as
religion, political structure, health, and behavior, contributing to a brief
florescence.
1970 “Archaeological Survey of Coulee Dam National
Recreation Area: 1970,” University of Idaho
Anthropological Reports 2.
1968 “Survey of Antiquities Management on Bureau of Land
Management Lands in Oregon.” Commissioned by the BLM. A systematic
evaluation of the impact of federal land practices on archaeological
sites. Based on observations at spring developments, dams, roads,
juniper clearance projects, range fences, timber sales, and other land
modifications in the BLM districts of the state.
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