Includes bibliographical references (p. [334]-369) and index.
Contents:
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.
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