Mortuary Archaeology, Burial Practices, and defining the Prehistoric Funerary Landscape on the Sunshine Coast, British Columbia
Author(s): Derek O’Neill
Year: 2017
Summary
The ancestral burial practices among the peoples of the northwest coast of British Columbia have been well studied and documented by academics, heritage resource management professionals, and the First Nation Communities. Recent systematic surveys from archaeological impact assessments within the Sunshine Coast have yielded previously unidentified funerary archaeological features including various funerary petroforms atypical to this region. My aim is to revisit and define the types of archaeological features associated with burials and funerary rites that occur within the Sunshine Coast. Using existing research and examining the results from recent studies involving mortuary archaeology features on the Sunshine Coast, and northwest coast, I aim to explore and redefine what comprises the prehistoric funerary landscape.
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Mortuary Archaeology, Burial Practices, and defining the Prehistoric Funerary Landscape on the Sunshine Coast, British Columbia. Derek O’Neill. Presented at The 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Vancouver, British Columbia. 2017 ( tDAR id: 430606)
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Keywords
General
bioarchaeology
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Mortuary archaeology
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Northwest Coast
Geographic Keywords
North America-Canada
Spatial Coverage
min long: -142.471; min lat: 42.033 ; max long: -47.725; max lat: 74.402 ;
Record Identifiers
Abstract Id(s): 17120