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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450170603321

Titolo

Emerging from the mist [[electronic resource] ] : studies in Northwest Coast culture history / / edited by R.G. Matson, Gary Coupland, and Quentin Mackie

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Vancouver, : UBC Press, c2003

ISBN

1-283-13114-5

9786613131140

0-7748-5183-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (400 p.)

Collana

Pacific Rim archaeology, , 1483-2283

Altri autori (Persone)

CouplandGary Graham <1953->

MatsonR. G <1944-> (Richard Ghia)

MackieQuentin <1962->

Disciplina

979.5/01

Soggetti

Indians of North America - Northwest Coast of North America - Antiquities

Indians of North America - Material culture - Northwest Coast of North America

Electronic books.

Northwest Coast of North America Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references: p. [334]-369.

Nota di contenuto

Intro; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: The Northwest Coast in Perspective; 2 A Hunter-Gatherer Paramount Chiefdom: Tsimshian Developments through the Contact Period; 3 Northwest Coast Wet-Site Artifacts: A Key to Understanding Resource Procurement, Storage, Management, and Exchange; 4 The Coast Salish House: Lessons from Shingle Point, Valdes Island, British Columbia; 5 Nuu-chah-nulth Houses: Structural Remains and Cultural Depressions on Southwest Vancouver Island; 6 Preliminary Analysis of Socioeconomic Organization at the McNichol Creek Site, British Columbia

7 Dimensions of Regional Interaction in the Prehistoric Gulf of Georgia 8 The Cultural Taphonomy of Nuu-chah-nulth Whale Bone Assemblages; 9 The Thin Edge: Evidence for Precontact Use and



Working of Metal on the Northwest Coast; 10 A Stitch in Time: Recovering the Antiquity of a Coast Salish Basket Type; 11 Reviewing the Wakashan Migration Hypothesis; 12 Location-Allocation Modelling of Shell Midden Distribution on the West Coast of Vancouver Island; 13 The Northwest Coast as a Study Area: Natural, Prehistoric, and Ethnographic Issues; Epilogue; References; Notes on Contributors; Index; A; B

CD; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y