CMT (Other Keyword)
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Culturally Modified Trees (CMTs) bearing the scars of First Nation’s resource use are ubiquitous in British Columbia’s old growth forests, yet remain one of the most endangered archaeological site types due to industrial logging. The majority of CMTs are bark strip features with precise spatial, temporal, and harvesting pattern data that, when viewed on a landscape level, have great informative value related to forest use. However, CMT use in archaeological studies has been infrequent, small...
The Giving Tree: The Story and Archaeology of the Western Redcedar on Washington’s Department of Natural Resources Lands (2024)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Co-Producing Space: Relational Approaches to Agrarian Landscapes, Labor, Commodities, and Communities", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Washington Department of Natural Resources (DNR) manages over 2.4 million acres of trust lands, which must generate revenue for the state’s beneficiaries. Therefore, DNR harvests three-billion board-feet of lumber annually. Long before these forests were managed by DNR, they...