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Submitted by bat400 on Sunday, 30 December 2007  Page Views: 6748

Multi-periodSite Name: Matalam Alternative Name: Umatilla
Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 28.783 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: The West Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Umatilla, OR
Latitude: 45.920400N  Longitude: 119.3479W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
1 Ambience:
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4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
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no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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no data Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Ancient Village in Umatilla County, Oregon.
Site of pre-contact village at the confluence of the Umatilla and Columbia rivers. Finds indicate 12000 years of occupation. At the time of contact the Umatilla tribe used the village as a center for salmon fishing, preservation and trading.

The modern town of Umatilla Junction was sited along the native village. Both settlements have been flooded by Columbia river dams.

Note: Joint effort by Oregon town and Indian Reservation to document flooded village site.
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Oregon city, tribes trying to save 2,500-year-old village site by bat400 on Sunday, 30 December 2007
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Originally submitted by coldrum ---

Crumbling asphalt roads and docks still mark where the town of Umatilla once stood, but even deeper are the remnants of the 2,500-year-old tribal village of matalam.

Almost nothing has been done with the 70-acre Umatilla town site, found within 800 acres owned by the Army Corps of Engineers.

The city was moved to its current site in the mid-1960s to make way for the Columbia River to rise behind the John Day Dam.

Now the city of Umatilla and the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation have started talking about what can be done to preserve the area and its history.

The site, which is closed to the public, won't be developed with restaurants and hotels, said City Manager Larry Clucas. Plans are more likely to involve interpretive signs or possibly a center that could store artifacts and teach visitors about the area's history and culture, he said.

Before pioneers came to the area and made Umatilla a shipping center, matalam was home to up to 1,000 people during the salmon runs, said Teara Farrow, tribal program manager.

It was one of the largest village sites in Oregon, and it was a center for food and trade, she said. Previous excavations have turned up objects 2,500 years old, said Julie Longenecker, anthropologist and archaeologist for the tribes. The majority of what is out there is still in undisturbed layers up to 12 feet deep.

"There is layer upon layer and level upon level of human occupation here," she said during a recent tour of the town site.

Inside the town site is a separate enclosed tribal burial grounds. The tribes monitor the entire area, which is covered in dense undergrowth, for looters and other problems.

As Longenecker and Farrow walked along the river bank, they pointed to where looters have dug looking for artifacts. Longenecker showed some city officials an exposed shell midden that was disturbed.

Clucas said the city would like to partner with the tribes to protect the site but also "make it available for interpretation so people will see it as a historical site."

For more, see the This Seattle Times.
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