Illustrations

Acknowledgments

1 Introduction: The Northwest Coast in Perspective / R.G. Matson

2 A Hunter-Gatherer Paramount Chiefdom: Tsimshian Developments through the Contact Period / Andrew R.C. Martindale

3 Northwest Coast Wet-Site Artifacts: A Key to Understanding Resource Procurement, Storage, Management, and Exchange / Dale R. Croes

4 The Coast Salish House: Lessons from Shingle Point, Valdes Island, British Columbia / R.G. Matson

5 Nuu-chah-nulth Houses: Structural Remains and Cultural Depressions on Southwest Vancouver Island / Alexander P. Mackie and Laurie Williamson

6 Preliminary Analysis of Socioeconomic Organization at the McNichol Creek Site, British Columbia / Gary Coupland, Roger Colten, and Rebecca Case

7 Dimensions of Regional Interaction in the Prehistoric Gulf of Georgia / Colin Grier

8 The Cultural Taphonomy of Nuu-chah-nulth Whale Bone Assemblages / Gregory G. Monks

9 The Thin Edge: Evidence for Precontact Use and Working of Metal on the Northwest Coast / Steven Acheson

10 A Stitch in Time: Recovering the Antiquity of a Coast Salish Basket Type / Kathryn Bernick

11 Reviewing the Wakashan Migration Hypothesis / Alan McMillan

12 Location-Allocation Modelling of Shell Midden Distribution on the West Coast of Vancouver Island / Quentin Mackie

13 The Northwest Coast as a Study Area: Natural, Prehistoric, and Ethnographic Issues / Leland Donald

Epilogue / Leland Donald

References

Notes on Contributors

Index