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slub

CATEGORY: artifact
DEFINITION: Soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design

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Northwest Riverine tradition

SYNONYM: Plateau tradition
CATEGORY: culture
DEFINITION: A series of cultures which reached maturity in the interior of Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia, and in Idaho at the beginning of this millennium. The Columbia-Snake, Fraser-Thompson, and Klamath Rivers run through it and it is where the Old Cordilleran tradition arose. It is characterized by pebble choppers, leaf-shaped flaked stone projectile points, stone hammers, stone bowls, tubular pipes, stone slubs, and fine stone carving. It is an integrative concept created by G.R. Willey in an effort to characterize all of Plateau prehistory between 500-1850 AD.