12 Location-Allocation Modelling of Shell Midden Distribution on the West Coast of Vancouver Island

Chapters in this book

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