Archaeology of Stranded, Intertidal, and Submerged Shorelines on the Northwest Coast of North America

Part of: Society for American Archaeology 82nd Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC (2017)

Coastal Archaeology in Northwestern North America is offering an expanding range of insights into the late Pleistocene peopling of postglacial environments and the purposeful transformation of the intertidal zone during the late Holocene to enhance and manage shellfish and fish populations. Attentiveness to relative sea level change and employing interdisciplinary tools and methods is a key driver enabling both of these research trajectories. This poster session invites emerging research contributions on this theme from along the Northwest Coast, including the Central Coast and the Discovery Islands in British Columbia where the Hakai Institute has launched a long-term archaeological research program. This poster session aims to provide an enjoyable forum for this convergent research on the coastal margin.

Other Keywords
Predictive Modelling • Intertidal • Early Holocene • LiDAR • sea-level • Core • Underwater Archaeology • Fish Trap • Microblades • Shellfish

Geographic Keywords
Yukon Territory (State / Territory) • North America (Continent) • Alaska (State / Territory) • North America - NW Coast/Alaska • Alberta (State / Territory) • New York (State / Territory) • New Hampshire (State / Territory) • Idaho (State / Territory) • Maine (State / Territory) • British Columbia (State / Territory)

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  1. Ancient Clam Gardens: Exploring Cultural and Ecological Mechanisms that Enhanced Clam Production (2017)
  2. Archaeological and architectural considerations of intertidal shellfish use and deposition on Hecate Island, Central Coast of British Columbia (2017)
  3. Archaeological Fish Traps on the Coast of British Columbia (2017)
  4. Archaeological Investigations of the Intertidal Ecotone on the Central Pacific Coast of Canada (2017)
  5. Coastal Predictive Modelling for Early Period Archaeological Sites in a Landscape subject to Rapidly Changing Sea Levels, Quadra Island, British Columbia (2017)
  6. Coastal Settlement Patterns in BC at the Pleistocene-Holocene Transition (2017)
  7. Following the Shore: Refining Late Holocene Sea-Level change through Settlement Histories on Northern Quadra Island, B.C. (2017)
  8. Kilgii Gwaay: an Early Holocene Archaeological Wet Site in the Modern Intertidal Zone of Haida Gwaii, British Columbia (2017)
  9. A Large Shell Midden Complex on the Outer Central Coast of British Columbia (2017)
  10. Long-term culture landscape development at (EkTb-9) Triquet Island, British Columbia, Canada (2017)
  11. A Multi-Method Approach to Prospecting Stranded Paleo-Coastal Sites on Quadra Island, BC (2017)
  12. New approaches to the underwater archaeology of Hecate Strait, Haida Gwaii, British Columbia (2017)
  13. A post-glacial relative sea level curve and paleoshoreline archaeological survey for the Prince Rupert Harbour, BC, Canada (2017)
  14. Raised Marine Predictive Model Advances Knowledge of Early Holocene Site Assemblages in Southern Southeast Alaska (2017)
  15. Shellfish Harvesting Strategies on the Northern Northwest Coast: Evidence from Labouchere Bay, Southeast Alaska (2017)
  16. Speed Mapping: Using drones to construct imagery and elevation models of cultural intertidal landscapes (2017)