Sampling the Local Fare: Fishes at the Sam Israel House Pit (45GR76), Soap Lake, Washington

• Main Author: Fruge, Adam
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: ScholarWorks@CWU 2020
• Subjects: fish; zooarchaeology; lacustrine; salmon; minnow; sucker; Aquaculture and Fisheries; Archaeological Anthropology; Desert Ecology; Genetics; Geology; Glaciology; Hydrology; Other Environmental Sciences; Other Food Science; Other Nutrition; Physical and Environmental Geography; Population Biology; Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecology; Zoology; Minnows; Longnose sucker
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/etd/1365; https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2389&context=etd

The Sam Israel site is a precontact archaeological complex with numerous fish bones at the north end of Soap Lake, Washington. Excavated in 1976, the fish remains recovered from there were never fully analyzed prior to this research. Since this inland Columbia Plateau site had thousands of fish bone...