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Title:

The archaeology of North Pacific fisheries / Madonna L. Moss and and Aubrey Cannon, editors.

Publisher:

University of Alaska Press,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

xii, 312 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.

Subject:

Fisheries--Northwest Coast of North America--History.
Fisheries--North Pacific Ocean--History.
Indians of North America--Northwest Coast of North America--Antiquities.
Indians of North America--Northwest Coast of North America--Social life and customs.
Ethnoarchaeology--Northwest Coast of North America.
Coastal archaeology--Northwest Coast of North America.
Excavations (Archaeology)--Northwest Coast of North America.
Fish remains (Archaeology)--Northwest Coast of North America.
Northwest Coast of North America--Antiquities.
Northwest Coast of North America--Social life and customs.

Other Authors:

Moss, Madonna.
Cannon, Aubrey.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

The archaeology of North Pacific fisheries : an introduction / Madonna L. Moss and Aubrey Cannon -- Identification of salmon species from archaeological remains on the Northwest Coast / Trevor J. Orchard and Paul Szpak -- Little Ice Age climate : Gadus macrocephalus otoliths as a measure of local variability / Catherine R. West, Stephen Wischniowski, and Christopher Johnston -- Pacific cod and salmon structural bone density : implications for interpreting butchering patterns in North Pacific archaeofaunas / Ross E. Smith ... [et al.] -- Site-specific salmon fisheries on the central coast of British Columbia / Aubrey Cannon, Dongya Yang, and Camilla Speller -- Heiltsuk stone fish traps on the central coast of British Columbia / Elroy White -- Riverine salmon harvesting and processing technology in northern British Columbia / Paul Prince -- Late Holocene fisheries in Gwaii Haanas : species composition, trends in abundance, and environmental or cultural explanations / Trevor J. Orchard -- Locational optimization and faunal remains in northern Barkley Sound, western Vancouver Island, British Columbia / Gregory G. Monks -- Pacific cod in southeast Alaska : the "cousin" of the fish that changed the world / Madonna L. Moss -- Zooarchaeology of the "fish that stops" : using archaeofaunas to construct long-term time series of Atlantic and Pacific cod populations / Matthew W. Betts, Herbert D.G. Maschner, and Donald S. Clark -- Processing the patterns : elusive archaeofaunal signatures of cod storage on the North Pacific Coast / Megan A. Partlow and Robert E. Kopperl -- Cod and salmon : a tale of two assemblages from Coffman Cove, Alaska / Madonna L. Moss -- Fish traps and shell middens at Comox Harbour, British Columbia / Megan Caldwell -- An archaeological history of Holocene fish use in the Dundas Island group, British Columbia / Natalie Brewster and Andrew Martindale -- Patterns of fish usage at a late prehistoric northern Puget Sound shell midden / Teresa Trost ... [et al.] -- Herring bones in southeast Alaska archaeological sites : the record of Tlingit use of yaaw (Pacific herring, Clupea pallasii) / Madonna L. Moss, Virginia L. Butler; and J. Tait Elder -- Conclusion : the archaeology of North Pacific Fisheries / Aubrey Cannon and Madonna L. Moss.

ISBN:

1602231478 (electronic book)
9781602231474 (electronic book)
160223146X (pbk. : acid-free paper)
9781602231467 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)700735480

LCCN:

2011003389

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)