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Antiquity Research
At Antiquity we develop robust historical and archaeological contexts. Our clients benefit from our commitment to advancing regional archaeology and history through well-developed and succinct research designs and context statements. Each year our staff present research at regional and/or national conferences, which helps us build our research network and influence industry standards.
Mathews, Bethany K.
2025 Quantifying South Basin Salish Sea Midden Sites: Empirical Data for Cultural Resource Management, poster presented at the 90th Society for American Archaeology meeting, Denver, CO, 24 April 2025.
Mathews, Bethany K., Riley Mallory, and Libby Musolino
2025 Donation Land Claim Landscapes: American Settlement of Southern Puget Lowland Prairies, poster presented at the 85th Society for Applied Anthropology meeting, Portland, OR, 27 March 2025.
Mathews, Bethany K., and Katy Leonard-Doll
2025 Prairies are Cultural Landscapes: Preserving Prairie History and Archaeology in the Southern Puget Lowland, poster presented at the 85th Society for Applied Anthropology meeting, Portland, OR, 27 March 2025, and at the 90th Society for American Archaeology meeting, Denver, CO, 24 April 2025.
Mathews, Bethany K., Lance Wollwage, Laura Johnson, and Kaiah Costa
2025 Olympia’s Second Street Sheet Midden: Shellfish Analysis of an Early Euro-American Site, poster presented at the 85th Society for Applied Anthropology meeting, Portland, OR, 27 March 2025.
Mathews, Bethany K., Lance Wollwage, Kaiah Costa, and Laura Johnson
2025 What the Shuck?: Recognizing Precolonial, Early Colonial, and Historic Shell Middens in Olympia, WA, poster presented at the 85th Society for Applied Anthropology meeting, Portland, OR, 27 March 2025.
Mathews, Bethany K.
2024 “To Be Held by Her in Her Own Right”: Feminism and the Donation Land Claim Act in Washington State, poster presented at the 77th Northwest Anthropological Conference, Portland, OR, March 2024.
Leonard-Doll, Katy and Bethany K. Mathews
2024 Prairie Archaeological Sites in Thurston and Lewis Counties: Empirical Data For Cultural Resource Management, poster presented at the 77th Northwest Anthropological Conference, Portland, OR, March 2024.
Johnson, Laura
2024 Establishing a Faunal Comparative Collection to Aid Cultural Resource Interpretation of Sites in Western Washington, poster presented at the 77th Northwest Anthropological Conference, Portland, OR, March 2024.
Mathews, Bethany K. and Michelle R. Lynch
2023 The Status of Northwest Historical Archaeology: An Analysis of Representation, poster presented at the 76th Northwest Anthropological Conference, Spokane, WA, April 13.
Mathews, Bethany K.
2023 Women Homesteaders of Northeastern Washington: Orcharding in the Okanogan Highlands, poster presented at the 76th Northwest Anthropological Conference, Spokane, WA, April 13.
Journal of Northwest Anthropology NWAC Proceedings link
Mathews, Bethany K.
2023 Washington Women’s Homesteading, 1862–1949: Developing a Historic Context of Women’s Homesteading Experiences, poster presented at the Society for American Archaeology, Portland, OR, March 30.
Mathews, Bethany K.
2022 Women Homesteaders of Washington’s Channeled Scablands: Summary Statistics and Spatial Patterns for 5 Counties, poster presented at the 75th Northwest Anthropological Conference, poster presented virtually, March 10.
Journal of Northwest Anthropology NWAC Proceedings link
Mathews, Bethany K. and Christopher D. Noll
2021 74th Northwest Anthropological Conference: Celebrating Diverse Perspectives in Anthropology. Journal of Northwest Anthropology, Special Publication 5, pp. 1-3.
Journal of Northwest Anthropology NWAC Proceedings link
Mathews, Bethany K.
2021 Western Washington Women Homesteaders: Summary Statistics and Spatial Patterns for Nineteen Counties, poster presented virtually at the 74th Northwest Anthropological Conference, April 8. Reproduced in Journal of Northwest Anthropology, Special Publication 5, pg. 227.
Mathews, Bethany K.
2020 The Process and Practicality of Ordering Washington Homestead Land Entry Files: A Case Study of Women Homesteader Records, Northwest History Conference, Tacoma, Washington, October 20.
Mathews, Bethany K.
2019 Washington Women Homesteaders: Finding the Underrepresented History of Land Claimants in Early Washington State, poster presented at the 73rd Northwest Anthropological Conference in Kennewick, WA, March 21.
Mathews, Bethany K.
2019 Very Truly Yours: The Eliza Hurd Letters, Olympia, WA, 1860–1862. Zine 2, The Undertold Histories Project.
Mathews, Bethany K.
2019 Feminism & FreeLove in Olympia, 1862: The Sensational Marriage of Eliza Ann Woodard Hurd & Charles Henry DeWolfe. Zine 1, The Undertold Histories Project.
Mathews, Bethany K.
2014 “Plant Foods” in Qwu?gwes—The Archaeological Site (45TN240), Fish Trap, and Homestead; Comprehensive Eleven-year Scientific Description and Cultural Explanatory Report Edited by Dale Croes, Rhonda Foster, and Larry Ross.
Mathews, Bethany K.
2013 Spatial Analysis of the Western Pluvial Lakes Tradition in the Southern Columbia Plateau and Northern Great Basin of North America, Society for American Archaeology Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii, April 5.
Mathews, Bethany K.
2012 Testing the Western Pluvial Lakes Tradition Hypothesis in the Northern Great Basin and Southern Columbia Plateau, presented at Northwest Anthropological Conference in Pendleton, OR, March 15.
Mathews, Bethany K.
2010 [2011] Balanophagy in the Pacific Northwest: The Acorn-Leaching Pits at the Sunken Village Wetsite. Journal of Northwest Anthropology 43:125-140. Reprinted in 2011 Collection of Papers from the Journal of Northwest Anthropology Associated with Traditional Indigenous Resources, Part 1 General and Terrestrial.
Armstrong, Chelsey G.D. Jason Moore, Antonia Rodrigues, Bethany Mathews, Dale Croes, Dana Lepofsky, and Dongya Yang
2011 Recovering Ancient DNA from Archaeologically Preserved Garry Oak (Quercus garryana) Acorns, poster presented at Society of Ethnobiology Annual Meeting, Columbus, Ohio, May 5.
Mathews, Bethany K. and Leroy Keener
2010 “The greatest of all delicacies”: Waterlogged Archaeology and the Search for Ancient Food Preference on the Northwest Coast of North America, presented at Society of Ethnobiology Annual Meeting, Victoria, British Columbia, May 7.
Mathews, Bethany K.
2009 “Acorns and Acorn-Leaching Pits:” In Sunken Village, Sauvie Island, Oregon USA: A Report on the 2006-2007 Investigations of National Historic Landmark Wet Site 35MU4, edited by Dale R. Croes, John L. Fagan, and Maureen Newman Zehendner, pp. 85-94. Journal of Wetland Archaeology, 9. Oxbow Books, University of Exeter, England.
Mathews, Bethany K.
2008 Acorn Leaching Pits, Oak Woodlands and Comparative Ethnography of the Northwest Coast, presented at American Society for Ethnohistory Conference in Eugene, OR, November 13.
Mathews, Bethany K.
2008 Balanophagy in the Pacific Northwest: The Acorn-Leaching Pits at the Sunken Village Wetsite and Comparative Ethnographic Acorn Use, presented at 61st Annual Northwest Anthropological Conference in Victoria, BC, Canada, April 25.
Mathews, Bethany K.
2008 Balanophagy in the Pacific Northwest: The Acorn-Leaching Pits of the Sunken Village Wet Site 35MU4 and Comparative Ethnography of Acorn Use, presented at 73rd Annual Society for American Archaeology Meeting, Vancouver, BC, Canada, March 28.
Mathews, Bethany K.
2007 The Acorn-Leaching Pits of Sauvie Island: Macroflora Analysis, Comparison of Regional Acorn Use, and Human Population Size Estimate, presented at 60th Annual Northwest Anthropological Conference in Pullman, WA, March 15.