Emerging from the Mist : Studies in Northwest Coast Culture History.

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 -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

This book brings together the most recent research on the culture history and archaeology of a region of longstanding anthropological importance, whose complex societies represent the most prominent examples of hunters and gatherers.

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