The last house at Bridge River : the archaeology of an aboriginal household in British Columbia during the fur trade period / edited by Anna Marie Prentiss.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Prentiss, Anna Marie, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lillooet Indians--Antiquities.

Lillooet Indians.

Lillooet Indians--British Columbia--Bridge River--History.

Excavations (Archaeology)--British Columbia--Bridge River.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Bridge River (B.C.)--Antiquities.

Bridge River (B.C.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (pages cm)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Salt Lake City, Utah : The University of Utah Press, 2017.

Summary:

The Last House at Bridge River offers a comprehensive archaeological study of a single-house floor and roof deposit dated to approximately 1835-1858 C.E.Although the Fur Trade period of the nineteenth century was a time of significant change for aboriginal peoples in the Pacific Northwest, it is a period that is poorly understood.

Contents:

Introduction / Anna Marie Prentiss

Historical ecology of the Middle Fraser Canyon, British Columbia, during the nineteenth century / Matthew J. Walsh

Archaeology of the fur trade period occupation at Housepit 54, Bridge River site / Anna Marie Prentiss

Lithic technology during the fur trade period at Housepit 54 / Anna Marie Prentiss, Kelly French, Sara Hocking, Matthew Mattes, Matthew Walsh, Mary Bobbitt, and Kristen D. Barnett

Lithic technology and risk : a winter household at the Bridge River Village site during the fur trade period / Kelly French

Fur trade artifacts at Housepit 54, Bridge River site / C. Riley Auge, Mary Bobbitt, Kelly J. Dixon, and Thomas A. Foor

Faunal remains and artifacts from the fur trade period occupation at Housepit 54 / Alexandra Williams-Larson

Plant use practices of a historic Státímc household, Bridge River, British Columbia / Natasha Lyons, Anna Marie Prentiss, Naoko Endo, and Kristen D. Barnett

Geochemical characterization of fur trade period floor sediments from Housepit 54, Bridge River Village / Nathan Goodale, Katherine Hill, David G. Bailey, Alissa Nauman, Anna Marie Prentiss, Emily Rubinstein, Bruce Wegter, and Khori Newlander

Spatial analysis of the fur trade floor and roof at Housepit 54 / Alexandra Williams-Larson, Kristen D. Barnett, Pei-Lin Yu, Matthew Schmader, and Anna Marie Prentiss

Indigenous household spatial analysis / Kristen D. Barnett and Brenda Frank

Cultural change and continuity across the late pre-colonial and early colonial periods : archaeology of the S7istken site / Lisa Michelle Smith

Conclusions / Anna Marie Prentiss.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

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ISBN:

1-60781-544-3

OCLC:

1013728737