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1 Introduction: The Northwest Coast in Perspective
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R.G. Matson
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Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents vii
- Illustrations ix
- Acknowledgments xv
- Introduction: The Northwest Coast in Perspective 1
- A Hunter-Gatherer Paramount Chiefdom: Tsimshian Developments through the Contact Period 12
- Northwest Coast Wet-Site Artifacts: A Key to Understanding Resource Procurement, Storage, Management, and Exchange 51
- The Coast Salish House: Lessons from Shingle Point, Valdes Island, British Columbia 76
- Nuu-chah-nulth Houses: Structural Remains and Cultural Depressions on Southwest Vancouver Island 105
- Preliminary Analysis of Socioeconomic Organization at the McNichol Creek Site, British Columbia 152
- Dimensions of Regional Interaction in the Prehistoric Gulf of Georgia 170
- The Cultural Taphonomy of Nuu-chah-nulth Whale Bone Assemblages 188
- The Thin Edge: Evidence for Precontact Use and Working of Metal on the Northwest Coast 213
- A Stitch in Time: Recovering the Antiquity of a Coast Salish Basket Type 230
- Reviewing the Wakashan Migration Hypothesis 244
- Location-Allocation Modelling of Shell Midden Distribution on the West Coast of Vancouver Island 260
- The Northwest Coast as a Study Area: Natural, Prehistoric, and Ethnographic Issues 289
- Epilogue 328
- References 334
- Notes on Contributors 371
- Index 375
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents vii
- Illustrations ix
- Acknowledgments xv
- Introduction: The Northwest Coast in Perspective 1
- A Hunter-Gatherer Paramount Chiefdom: Tsimshian Developments through the Contact Period 12
- Northwest Coast Wet-Site Artifacts: A Key to Understanding Resource Procurement, Storage, Management, and Exchange 51
- The Coast Salish House: Lessons from Shingle Point, Valdes Island, British Columbia 76
- Nuu-chah-nulth Houses: Structural Remains and Cultural Depressions on Southwest Vancouver Island 105
- Preliminary Analysis of Socioeconomic Organization at the McNichol Creek Site, British Columbia 152
- Dimensions of Regional Interaction in the Prehistoric Gulf of Georgia 170
- The Cultural Taphonomy of Nuu-chah-nulth Whale Bone Assemblages 188
- The Thin Edge: Evidence for Precontact Use and Working of Metal on the Northwest Coast 213
- A Stitch in Time: Recovering the Antiquity of a Coast Salish Basket Type 230
- Reviewing the Wakashan Migration Hypothesis 244
- Location-Allocation Modelling of Shell Midden Distribution on the West Coast of Vancouver Island 260
- The Northwest Coast as a Study Area: Natural, Prehistoric, and Ethnographic Issues 289
- Epilogue 328
- References 334
- Notes on Contributors 371
- Index 375
