Emerging from the mist : studies in Northwest Coast culture history

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Emerging from the mist : studies in Northwest Coast culture history

Coupland, Gary Graham, 1953- (Added Author). Matson, R. G. (Richard Ghia), 1944- (Added Author). Mackie, Quentin, 1962- (Added Author).

Summary:

Annotation Our understanding of the precontact nature of Canada's Northwest Coast has changed dramatically over the last twenty years. This 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.

Annotation The Northwest Coast of North America, note the editors (anthropologists from the Canadian Universities of British Columbia, Toronto, and Victoria), is the location of one of the most prominent examples of a complex hunter-gatherer society in ethnographic studies, yet they wonder why there is a relative lack of archaeological studies of the area. Seeking to address this problem, they present 13 studies that explore archaeological sites on Vancouver Island, other areas of British Columbia, and the states of Oregon and Washington. The book is distributed by the U. of Washington Press Annotation 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

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ISBN: 0774809817
ISBN: 0774809825
ISBN: 9780774809818
ISBN: 9780774809825
Physical Description: xiii, 380 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Vancouver : UBC Press, ©2003.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references (pages 334-369) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: Introduction: the northwest coast in perspective / R.G. Matson -- A hunter-gatherer paramount chiefdom: Tsimshian developments through the contact period / Andrew R.C. Martindale -- Northwest coast wet-site artifacts: a key to understanding resource procurement, storage, management, and exchange / Dale R. Croes -- The coast Salish house: lessons learned from Shingle Point, Valdes Island, British Columbia / R.G. Matson -- Nuu-chah-nulth houses: structural remains and cultural depressions on southwest Vancouver Island / Alexander P. Mackie and Laurie Williamson -- Preliminary analysis of socioeconomic organization at the McNichol Creek site, British Columbia / Gary Coupland, Roger H. Colten, and Rebecca Case -- Dimensions of regional interaction in the prehistoric Gulf of Georgia / Colin Grier -- The cultural taphonomy of the Nuu-chah-nulth whale bone assemblages / Gregory G. Monks -- The thin edge: evidence for precontact use and working of metal on the northwest coast / Steven Acheson -- A stitch in time: recovering the antiquity of a coast Salish basket type / Kathryn Bernick -- Reviewing the Wakashan migration hypothesis / Alan D. McMillan -- Location-allocation modeling of shell midden distribution on the west coast of Vancouver Island / Quentin Mackie -- The northwest coast as a study area: natural, prehistoric, and ethnographic issues / Leland Donald.