Incised Pebbles, Indigenous Art, (Other Keyword)
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The Pentlatch Pebbles: Incised stones from an ancient K'omoks village site in Courtenay, British Columbia (2017)
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Recent excavations at the K'omoks First Nation ancient village site at Pentlatch resulted in the discovery of 122 incised pebbles and small cobbles. Such artifacts are very rare in the Pacific Northwest, with only one other comparably large assemblage having been reported at Tse-whit-zen in Port Angeles, Washington. The incised stones from the Pentlatch site were found throughout the site area and from all stratigraphic contexts, spanning (at least) several hundreds of years of occupation;...