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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Moss, Madonna.

Cannon, Aubrey.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fisheries--Northwest Coast of North America--History.

Fisheries.

Fisheries--North Pacific Ocean--History.

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

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Northwest Coast of North America--Social life and customs.

Ethnoarchaeology--Northwest Coast of North America.

Ethnoarchaeology.

Coastal archaeology--Northwest Coast of North America.

Coastal archaeology.

Excavations (Archaeology)--Northwest Coast of North America.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Fish remains (Archaeology)--Northwest Coast of North America.

Fish remains (Archaeology).

Northwest Coast of North America--Antiquities.

Northwest Coast of North America.

Northwest Coast of North America--Social life and customs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (326 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Fairbanks : University of Alaska Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For thousands of years, fisheries were crucial to the sustenance of the First Peoples of the Pacific Coast. Yet human impact has left us with a woefully incomplete understanding of their histories prior to the industrial era. Covering Alaska, British Columbia, and Puget Sound, The Archaeology of North Pacific Fisheries illustrates how the archaeological record reveals new information about ancient ways of life and the histories of key species. Individual chapters cover salmon, as well as a number of lesser-known species abundant in archaeological sites, including pacific cod, herring, rockfish.

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 [and others]

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 [and others]

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781602231474

1602231478

OCLC:

893740991