Emerging from the mist : studies in Northwest Coast culture history

Matson, R. G. (Richard Ghia), 1944- (Added Author). Coupland, Gary Graham, 1953- (Added Author). Mackie, Quentin, 1962- (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0774809825 (pbk.)
ISBN: 0774809817 (bound)
ISBN: 9780774809825 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9780774809818 (bound)
Physical Description: xiii, 380 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
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Publisher: Vancouver : UBC Press, c2003.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

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

Formatted Contents Note:

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.