Publications and Presentations | Tushingham Lab

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This page lists recent publications, completed theses, and professional presentations by past and current members of the Tushingham Lab. The names of student members are listed in bold. This list is not exhaustive and will be updated on an ongoing basis.

Publications

Carney, Molly R., Jade d’Alpoim-Guedes, Kevin J. Lyons, and Melissa Goodman-Elgar
2019	Gendered Places and Depositional Histories: Reconstructing a Menstrual Lodge in the Interior Northwest. American Antiquity, in press. DOI: 10.1017/aaq.2019.30.

Fulkerson, Tiffany, and Shannon Tushingham
2019	Who Dominates the Discourses of the Past? Gender, Occupational Affiliation, and Multivocality in North American Archaeology Publishing. American Antiquity 84(3). In press.

Moonkham, Piyawit
2019	Collective Memory and Embodiment of the Naga in the Northern Thai Cultural Landscape: An Introductory Observation. Explorations: A Graduate Student Journal of Southeast Asian Studies (15):69–85.

Stapp, Darby C., Julia G. Longenecker, Tiffany J. Fulkerson, Shannon Tushingham
2019	Why Don't We Write More? Essays on Writing and Publishing Anthropological Research. Special reprint volume of the Journal of Northwest Anthropology.

Fulkerson, Tiffany, and Shannon Tushingham
2019	Writing and Publishing in Anthropology: Voices, Insights, and Disciplinary Trends. Journal of Northwest Anthropology 53(1):181–189.

Damitio, William J., Andrew Gillreath-Brown, and Shannon Tushingham
2018	Seeing the Forest for the Trees: A Spatial Database to Enhance Potential of Legacy Collections at the Washington State University Museum of Anthropology. Journal of Northwest Anthropology 52(2):183–199.

Helmer, Emily
2018	Seasonal Sociopolitical Reversals and the Reinforcement of Autonomy and Fluidity among the Coast Salish. Journal of Northwest Anthropology 52(2):168–182.

Tushingham, Shannon, Charles M. Snyder, Korey J. Brownstein, William J. Damitio, and David R. Gang
2018	Biomolecular Archaeology Reveals Ancient Origins of Indigenous Tobacco Smoking in North American Plateau. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115(46):11742–11747. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1813796115.

Fulkerson, Tiffany J.
2017	Engendering the Past: The Status of Gender and Feminist Approaches to Archaeology in the Pacific Northwest ad Future Directions. Journal of Northwest Anthropology 51(1):1–36.

Tushingham, Shannon, Tiffany Fulkerson, and Katheryn Hill
2017	The Peer Review Gap: A Longitudinal case Study of Gendered Publishing and Occupational Patterns in a Female-Rich discipline, Western North America (1974–2016). PLoS ONE 12(11):e0188403. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0188403.

Tushingham, Shannon, Janet P. Eidsness, Tiffany Fulkerson, Justin Hopt, Colin Christiansen, Angela Arpaia, and Julielani Chang
2016	Late Holocene Coastal Intensification, Mass Harvest Fishing, and the Historical Ecology of Marine Estuaries: The View from the Manila Site (CA-HUM-321), Humboldt Bay, Northwestern Alta California. California Archaeology 8(1):1–35. DOI: 10.1080/1947461X.2016.1176359.

Molly Carney and her collaborators analyzed charred plant remains, among other techniques, to understand the social context of an archaeological structure in northeastern Washington. The evidence, they argue in their new paper, shows that it was a gendered space: a menstrual lodge.

WhyDon'tWeWriteMore_Cover — *Tiffany Fulkerson, Shannon Tushingham and other collaborators recently organized a series of essays on writing and publishing in the* Journal of Northwest Anthropology. These essays by prominent scholars in the field are now available in a single volume.

Theses

Helmer, Emily
2019	Places of Practice: Interpreting Settlement Patterns and Persistent Places in Southern Oregon. Unpublished Master’s thesis, Department of Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman.

Damitio, William J.
2018	Pipes and Smoking in Precontact Northwest Societies. Unpublished Master’s thesis, Department of Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman.

Frierson, Andrew G.
2018	Occupational History and Land Use at Rock Creek Shelter (35LK22), Southeastern Oregon. Unpublished Master’s thesis, Department of Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman.

Professional Presentations

Carney, Molly
2019	Alter-nut-ive Recipes: Exploring the Diversity of Foods Prepared in Prehistoric Earth Oven Cooking. Poster presented at the 84th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
2019	Observations on Columbia Plateau Contemporaneous Individual and Group Structures, 1600 BP–present. Paper presented at the 72nd Northwest Anthropological Conference, Kennewick, Washington.

Carney, Molly, Jade d’Alpoim-Guedes, Kevin J. Lyons, and Melissa Goodman-Elgar
2019	Ethnobotanical Knowledge and Gendered Spaces: Reconstructing a Menstrual Lodge in the Interior Northwest. Paper presented at the 82nd Society for Ethnobiology Annual Meeting, Vancouver, British Columbia.

Damitio, William J., and Shannon Tushingham
2019	Tobacco Smoking in Northwestern North America: Synthesizing the Results of Organic Chemical Residue Analyses. Poster presented at the 84th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Download poster.

Damitio, William J., Shannon Tushingham, Korey Brownstein, and David Gang
2019	The Archaeology of Smoking in Northwest North America: Synthesis of Archaeological Pipe Data and Evidence from Chemical Residue Studies. Paper presented at the 72nd Northwest Anthropological Conference, Kennewick, Washington.

Damitio, William J., Andrew Gillreath-Brown, and Shannon Tushingham
2019	Expanding Research Accessibility of Archaeological Collections: Development of a Geospatial Database for the Washington State University Museum of Anthropology. Poster presented at the 72nd Northwest Anthropological Conference, Kennewick, Washington. Download poster.

Fulkerson, Tiffany, and Lourdes Henebry-DeLeon
2019	Intersectional Archaeological Approaches to Burial Practices: A Case Study from the Southern Plateau, Northwest North America. Poster presented at the 72nd Northwest Anthropological Conference, Kennewick, Washington.

Helmer, Emily
2019	Persistent Places in Southern Oregon. Paper presented at the 72nd Northwest Anthropological Conference, Kennewick, Washington.
2019	Placemaking in Southern Oregon. Paper presented at the 84th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Moonkham, Piyawit
2019	The Naga Myth and Buddhist Temples: Ethnohistorical Archaeology of the Northern Thai Cultural Landscape. Paper presented at the Association for Asian Studies 2019 Annual Conference, Denver, Colorado.

Tushingham, Shannon, and Tiffany Fulkerson
2019	Women and Leadership in the Columbia Plateau. Paper presented at the 72nd Northwest Anthropological Conference, Kennewick, Washington.

Wallen, Dakota
2019	Inhabiting the Impassible: The Archaeology of Precontact Houses in Hells Canyon. Paper presented at the 72nd Northwest Anthropological Conference, Kennewick, Washington.


Carney, Molly, and Sptephenie Kramer
2018	Re-Visiting Bulb Size as a Proxy for Camas (Camassia spp.) Management in the Pacific Northwest. Paper presented at the Society for Ethnobiology and Society of Economic Botany joint meeting, Madison, Wisconsin.

Damitio, William J., and Shannon Tushingham
2018	Community Space and Household Activity at Moses Lake: Re-examinaition and Radiometric Dating of HP-A, a Large House at the Long Beach Village Site (45GR30). Paper presented at the 71st Northwest Anthropological Conference, Boise, Idaho.

Hanson, Sydney, and Molly Carney
2018	The Harvest of Action: Arguing the Importance of Paleoethnobotany in Cultural Resource Management Archaeology. Paper presented at the Society for Ethnobiology and Society of Economic Botany joint meeting, Madison, Wisconsin.

Helmer, Emily
2018	Seasonal Sociopolitical Reversals and the Reinforcement of Autonomy and Fluidity among the Coast Salish. Paper presented at the 71st Northwest Anthropological Conference, Boise, Idaho.

Moonkham, Piyawit
2018	Sacred Space as Community Center: The Social Logic of Spatial Patterns in Early Northern Thai Temples. Paper presented at the 46th Annual Meeting of Council on Thai Studies (COTS), the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
2018	Space and Myth of the Naga: An Ethnohistorical Archaeology of the Northern Thai Cultural Landscape. Paper presented at the University of Michigan CSEAS Graduate Conference, the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Wallen, Dakota, Andrew Frierson, and Tiffany Fulkerson
2018	Washington State University Archaeological research at the Hart Mountain National Antelope Refuge. Paper presented at the 71st Northwest Anthropological Conference, Boise, Idaho.

Carney, Molly
2017	Gene-Culture Coevolution, Pit Hearth Cooking, and the Diabetes Epidemic among North American Indigenous Populations. Paper 82nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, British Columbia.

Damitio, William J., and Shannon Tushingham
2017	Pipes and Smoking in Precontact Pacific Northwest North America. Poster presented at the 82nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, British Columbia. Download poster.

Damitio, William J., Shannon Tushingham, Korey Brownstein, and David R. Gang
2017	A Chemical Residue Analysis of Pre-Contact Smoking Pipes from Three Mid-Columbian Sites. Paper presented at the 70th Northwest Anthropological Conference, Spokane, Washington.

Frierson, Andrew, James W. Brown, Dominic Bush, William J. Damitio, Nichole A. Fournier, Samantha L. Fulgham, Emily L. Whistler, Shannon Tushingham, and Colin Grier
2017	Intrasite and Intersite Interpretations of Faunal Patterning at the Rock Creek Shelter Site, Southcentral Oregon. Poster presented at the 70th Northwest Anthropological Conference, Spokane, Washington. Download poster.

Goodman-Elgar, Melissa, Molly Carney, Elizabeth Truman, William J. Damitio, Emily Whistler, and Kevin Lyons
2017	Paleolandforms and Landuse Dynamics: Regional Analysis Using Multiproxy Methods in the Pend Oreille Valley, WA. Poster presented at the 70th Northwest Anthropological Conference, Spokane, Washington.

Tushingham, Shannon, William J. Damitio, Korey Brownstein, and David R. Gang
2017	Tobacco Use Patterns among Tribal Communities in the Pacific Northwest: Long Term Trajectories and Implications for Modern Health Initiatives. Paper presented at the 70th Northwest Anthropological Conference, Spokane, Washington.

Carney, Molly
2016	To Throw into the Fire: Paleoethnobotanical and Geoarchaeoogical Analyses at the Flying Goose Site 45PO435. Paper presented at the 69th Northwest Anthropological Conference, Tacoma, Washington.

Damitio, William J., Emily L. Whistler, Kevin Lyons, and Melissa Goodman-Elgar
2016	Small Scale Subsurface Sampling as a Method for Identifying Anthropogenic Features through Sediment Analysis: A Case Study from Pend Oreille County, Washington. Poster presented at the 69th Northwest Anthropological Conference, Tacoma, Washington. Download poster.