Coast Salish Archaeology Essays

This is a collection of papers on Coast Salish archaeology. Click on a header and the document will slide out for reading (if you are on a smartphone you will be directed to a new page). Most papers include an abstract or an introduction near the top for quick perusal.

Harlan I. Smith & the Jesup North Pacific Expedition

(early draft of paper published in: Gateways: Exploring the Legacy of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition, edited. by I. Krupnik and W. Fitzhugh. Pp. 139-180. Arctic Studies Center, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington.)

Maintaining Complexity: Changes in Social Inequality During the Marpole-Late Transition in the Gulf of Georgia Region (SAA Conference Paper, subsequently published in The Midden)

The Dead and the Living: Burial Mounds & Cairns and the Development of Social Classes in the Gulf of Georgia Region (MA Thesis)

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Table Giving Ranges of Radiocarbon Dates for Mounds and Cairns

Table Giving Age Ranges of Mounds and Cairns based on Stratigraphic Associations & Radiocarbon Dates

Stó:lô Culture - Ideas of Prehistory and Changing Cultural Relationships to the Land and Environment

The Whalen Farm Site (in press in volume edited by RG Matson)

40 Years Later: Whalen Farm Revisited (The Midden)