Feature Content Analysis: Comparing Trends in Tool Use and Storage Strategies at Bridge River (EeRl-4), British Columbia

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Analysis of household storage strategies at the Bridge River Village in the British Columbia interior during the late prehistoric period has shown that there is potential to gain a better understanding of the accumulation of social capital at the household level. This poster incorporates feature content analysis of tools and raw materials from a series of household occupational surfaces at Housepit 54. Analysis of the use-lives household tools can serve to better define ambiguities in spatial analyses that have attempted to determine the presence and nature of activities reflective of efforts at accumulating social capital. Lithic raw material analysis demonstrates variation in access and household production of tools over time. While demographic, ecological, and dietary trends are better understood, a more focused examination of both lithic and faunal tools found in features will provide a better understanding of lifeways in this household as well as a strong proxy for household cooperation that can be applicable to larger scale studies aimed at understanding collective action and other regional phenomena.

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• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 26281