The Housepit 54 Project at Bridge River, British Columbia: Multidisciplinary Contributions to Household Archaeology

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "The Housepit 54 Project at Bridge River, British Columbia: Multidisciplinary Contributions to Household Archaeology" at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Excavations since 2012 at Housepit 54, Bridge River site, south-central British Columbia, have revealed a sequence of 16 intact stratified anthropogenic floors and seven roof deposits. Each floor is characterized by intact and minimally disturbed distributions of lithic artifacts, bone tools, faunal and floral remains, and features. With funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Science Foundation, the project has developed multidisciplinary research into lithic technology, zooarchaeology, paleoethnobotany, sediment micromorphology and chemistry, and ancient DNA. These studies address a wide range of topics with common themes of formation processes, household histories, subsistence ecology, technological strategies, canid management, and sociopolitical relationships. This poster symposium provides a broad overview of research at Housepit 54 offering new insights into Indigenous history and cultural variation in the context of a large Interior Pacific Northwest village.