Title Rewriting Marpole : the path to cultural complexity in the Gulf of Georgia / Terence N. Clark

Published Gatineau, Québec : Canadian Museum of Civilization and the University of Ottawa Press, [2013]

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 265 pages) : illustrations, colour maps Series Mercury series Archaeology paper ; 172 Mercury series. Archaeology paper (Canadian Museum of Civilization) ; 172. Contents Introduction -- Environmental setting -- Ethnographic summary -- Culture history -- Methodology : integrative archaeology -- Data and analysis -- Discussion and conclusion -- Appendix 1 : Artifact frequencies -- Appendix 2 : Faunal frequencies -- Appendix 3 : Radiocarbon age estimates Summary A prehistoric culture study of a key area on the Canadian northwest coast. This book examines prehistoric culture change in the Gulf of Georgia region of the northwest coast of North America during the Locarno Beach (3500–1100 BP) and Marpole (2000–1100 BP) periods. The Marpole culture has traditionally been seen to possess all the traits associated with complex hunter-gatherers on the northwest coast (hereditary inequality, multi-family housing, storage-based economies, resource ownership, wealth accumulation, etc.) while the Locarno Beach culture has not. This research examined artifact and faunal assemblages as well as data for art and mortuary architecture from a total of 164 Gulf of Georgia archaeological site components. Geographic location and ethnographic language distribution were also compared to the archaeological data. Analysis was undertaken using Integrative Distance Analysis (IDA), a statistical model developed in the course of this research. Results indicated that Marpole culture was not a regional phenomenon, but much more spatially and temporally discrete than previously thought Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Includes abstract in French Subject Indians of North America -- Georgia, Strait of, Region (B.C. and Wash.) -- Antiquities Antiquities, Prehistoric -- Georgia, Strait of, Region (B.C. and Wash.) SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology. Antiquities Antiquities, Prehistoric Indians of North America -- Antiquities SUBJECT Georgia, Strait of, Region (B.C. and Wash.) -- Antiquities Subject North America -- Strait of Georgia Region Form Electronic book Author Canadian Museum of Civilization. LC no. 2016416191 ISBN 9780776607948 0776607944 9780776620831 0776620835 1299483151 9781299483156

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