Coast Salish (Other Keyword)
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Field, laboratory and archival archaeological research has helped to reconstruct important parts of the ancestral seasonal landscape in the southern Strait of Georgia. Contextual understanding of place provides a baseline for questions of sociality during the last c. 5000 years prior to the colonial era. Evidence illustrates several of the historical processes through which community identities were brought into focus in the Coast Salish world. As an example, I explore what is known about one of...
Terraforming, Monumentality and Long Term Practice in the Coast Salish World (2016)
The archaeological record of the southern Gulf Islands of coastal British Columbia provides evidence of deliberate and long-term construction of coastal landforms over the last 4500 years. Local landscapes were altered, modified and managed in the service of production, but the implications of such practices for the construction of place, of inequality, and of political networks are profound. I document the magnitude and extent of landscape construction spatially, focusing on quantifying...
x̌ʷiq̓ʷix̌ʷalqʷuʔ - Coast Salish Community-Based Participatory Archaeology in Practice (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The x̌ʷiq̓ʷix̌ʷalqʷuʔ project is a partnership between the Stillaguamish Tribe Cultural Resources Department and the Department of Anthropology at Western Washington University designed to reorient archaeological practice to address the concerns of Indigenous communities. Implementing a community-based participatory framework, the program seeks to decenter...