Description
Book SynopsisThis book brings together the most recent research on the culture history and archaeology of a region of longstanding anthropological importance, whose complex societies represent the most prominent examples of hunters and gatherers.
Table of ContentsIllustrations
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction: The Northwest Coast in Perspective / R.G. Matson
2 A Hunter-Gatherer Paramount Chiefdom: Tsimshian Developments through the Contact Period / Andrew R.C. Martindale
3 Northwest Coast Wet-Site Artifacts: A Key to Understanding Resource Procurement, Storage, Management, and Exchange / Dale R. Croes
4 The Coast Salish House: Lessons from Shingle Point, Valdes Island, British Columbia / R.G. Matson
5 Nuu-chah-nulth Houses: Structural Remains and Cultural Depressions on Southwest Vancouver Island / Alexander P. Mackie and Laurie Williamson
6 Preliminary Analysis of Socioeconomic Organization at the McNichol Creek Site, British Columbia / Gary Coupland, Roger Colten, and Rebecca Case
7 Dimensions of Regional Interaction in the Prehistoric Gulf of Georgia / Colin Grier
8 The Cultural Taphonomy of Nuu-chah-nulth Whale Bone Assemblages / Gregory G. Monks
9 The Thin Edge: Evidence for Precontact Use and Working of Metal on the Northwest Coast / Steven Acheson
10 A Stitch in Time: Recovering the Antiquity of a Coast Salish Basket Type / Kathryn Bernick
11 Reviewing the Wakashan Migration Hypothesis / Alan McMillan
12 Location-Allocation Modelling of Shell Midden Distribution on the West Coast of Vancouver Island / Quentin Mackie
13 The Northwest Coast as a Study Area: Natural, Prehistoric, and Ethnographic Issues / Leland Donald
Epilogue / Leland Donald
References
Notes on Contributors
Index
