Maplebank site, BC (Other Keyword)
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The Maplebank Site: New Findings and Reinterpretation along the North American Northwest Coast (2017)
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Most discussions of the ‘complex’ fishing-gathering-hunting peoples of the Northwest Coast (NWC) focus on the Marpole Phase sites around the Fraser River Delta, BC. These contain evidence of developed social structures, an economy based on huge salmon runs and storage, and sophisticated art/architecture, and discussions of contributing factors to these traits usually focus on the perennial access to the Fraser River salmon runs. In contrast to Marpole sites are nearby ‘Islands’ sites, located...