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Linda Freidenburg worked on cultural resources projects at Fort Vancouver in the 1990s. Freidenburg earned her M.A. in Anthropology from Portland State University in 1993. Her thesis contributed to the chronology of human occupation of the Tualatin Valley in Oregon through the dating of projectile point assemblages, titled This Looks Like an Old Point: Time and Projectile Points in the Tualatin Valley. Her thesis chair was Kenneth M. Ames, with Marc R. Feldesman, John L. Fagan, and Daniel M. Johnson as the other committee members.
Freidenburg acted as an archaeological contractor for Fort Vancouver National Historic Site as an employee of Eastern Washington University, Archaeological and Historical Services, working alongside Bryn Thomas. Her work mainly consisted of cataloging artifacts from earlier excavations, developing a significant portion of the records for the Fort Vancouver museum collection. She authored a report on the relocation and re-excavation of the inferred post hole for the well sweep located in the northeastern portion of the Fort Vancouver stockade. As a result of this work, the National Park Service placed a historically accurate well sweep reconstruction inside the fort stockade.
Freidenburg co-authored three other reports with Thomas. These are: the installation of an underground telephone line (Freidenburg and Thomas 1994), excavations at the HBC Carpenter Shop (Thomas and Freidenburg 1997), and a review of information regarding burials and cemeteries associated with Fort Vancouver and Vancouver Barracks (Thomas and Freidenburg 1998). For the Carpenter Shop excavations, Freidenburg served as the lab director and occasional field work hand. The aim of the project was to gain additional information prior to the reconstruction of the building, which occurred in 1997.