A River Runs Through It: Recent Analyses of the Multi-Sited Líl’wat Village of Lokla in Mount Currie, British Columbia

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

This paper presents the results of the most recent field season of the Líl’wat Villages Project. In its near decade of work our project has continued to employ a multidisciplinary approach to the archaeology heritage within Líl’wat territory. Our investigations aim to deepen the understandings of their oral histories about their villages and other sites. Over the years, this collaboration has investigated eight villages, most of which are storied places, with events associated from the Time of Transformation to the times of their abandonment. In 2023, investigations were focused on the southern portion of Lokla, a moderately-sized pithouse village that is bisected by the Birkenhead River north of Mount Currie, British Columbia. Intact cultural deposits and features were encountered within three housepits, with evidence for three discrete occupation events spanning over 2500 years. We will discuss how the village is contemporaneously occupied across the Birkenhead River, a split form of community organization.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 40324.0