Index

Rethinking Colonial Pasts through Archaeology

Rethinking Colonial Pasts through Archaeology is an important and well-crafted synthesis by leading scholars, marking a coming of age for the archaeology of Indigenous people in colonial settler societies. To some extent, the title misrepresents...

Review by Douglas E. Ross

BC Studies no. 190 Summer 2016 | Page(s) 133-134

An Archaeology of Asian Transnationalism

Although descriptive work on historic artifacts of Asian origin has been sporadically produced by American archaeologists since the 1960s, and by British Columbia archaeologists since the 1970s, recent years have seen a blossoming of Asian...

Review by Grant Ross Keddie

BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 123-24

These Mysterious People: Shaping History and Archaeology in a Northwest Coast Community

In the summer of 1968, my grandmother would sometimes take my young aunt and uncle to the northern bank of the outflow of the Fraser River to dig for “Indian treasure” at the Marpole Midden....

Review by Madeline Knickerbocker

BC Studies no. 174 Summer 2012 | Page(s) 125-7

Northwest Coast: Archaeology as Deep History

The Society for American Archaeology website describes their “Contemporary Perspectives” series, in which Northwest Coast is the second title, as “short volumes focused on the archaeology of a specific region.” Aimed at “busy professionals and...

Review by Alan McMillan

BC Studies no. 179 Autumn 2013 | Page(s) 220-222

Athapaskan Migration: The Archaeology of Eagle Lake, British Columbia

Migration is one mechanism that archaeologists have put forward to explain significant change in cultural materials through time. However, due to its linear and rather simplistic explanation of human activity (i.e. material change = wholesale...

Review by Chris Springer

BC Studies no. 156-157 Winter-Spring 2007-2008 | Page(s) 187-90

The Archaeology of North Pacific Fisheries

Books that are compilations of papers given at conferences, such as this one, can be rather disjointed, often with only a few chapters of interest to each individual reader. This is an exception to that...

Review by Becky Wigen

BC Studies no. 183 Autumn 2014 | Page(s) 146-48

Indigenous Oral History and Settlement Archaeology in Barkley Sound, Western Vancouver Island

By Iain McKechnie

BC Studies no. 187 Autumn 2015 | Page(s) 193-229

archaeology oral tradition Nuu-Chah-Nulth Barkley Sound northwest coast

Revisiting “Dm Sibilhaa’nm Da Laxyuubm Gitxaaâa (Picking Abalone in Gitxaaâa Territory)”: Vindication, Appropriation, and Archaeology

By Charles R. Menzies

BC Studies no. 187 Autumn 2015 | Page(s) 129-155

archaeology Gitxaala shellfish northwest coast

Whales and Whalers in Nuu-chah-nulth Archaeology

By Alan D. McMillan

BC Studies no. 187 Autumn 2015 | Page(s) 229-291

archaeology Makah Nuu-Chah-Nulth whales and whaling Barkley Sound northwest coast

Barkerville in Context: Archaeology of the Chinese in British Columbia

By Douglas Edward Ross

BC Studies no. 185 Spring 2015 | Page(s) 161-193

archaeology chinese japanese people Barkerville

The Archaeology of 1858 in the Fraser Canyon

By Brian Pegg

BC Studies no. 196 Winter 2017-2018 | Page(s) 67-87

archaeology gold rush mining Fraser Canyon Nlakapamux

Anniversary Issue Reflections – Through the Lens of the Land: Reflections from Archaeology, Ethnoecology, and Environmental Science on Collaborations with First Nations, 1970s to the Present

By Dana Lepofsky, Ken Lertzman

BC Studies no. 200 Winter 2019 | Page(s) 141-160

archaeology ethnobotany Aboriginal fisheries food

Archaeology in British Columbia

By Roy L. Carlson

BC Studies no. 6-7 Autumn 1970 | Page(s) 7-17

archaeology

British Columbia Archaeology in the 1970’s

By Knut R. Fladmark

BC Studies no. 48 Winter 1980-1981 | Page(s) 11-20

archaeology

Papers on Central Coast Archaeology

PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 62, Summer 1984  

Review by R. Matson

BC Studies no. 62 Summer 1984 | Page(s) 74-6

Ethnography and Archaeology as Ideology: The Case of the Stein River Valley

By Wendy Wickwire

BC Studies no. 91-92 Autumn-Winter 1991-1992 | Page(s) 51-78

anthropology archaeology heritage Anthropology forestry environment aboriginal people

The Archaeology of 1858 in the Fraser Canyon

By Brian Pegg

BC Studies no. 196 Winter 2017-2018 | Page(s) 67-87

colonization gold rush military history Nlakapamux Fraser Canyon

At a Crossroads: Archaeology and First Peoples in Canada

PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 130, Summer 2001  

Review by Quentin Mackie

BC Studies no. 130 Summer 2001 | Page(s) 114-6

The Role of Lithic Raw Material Studies in Kootenay Archaeology

By Wayne T. Choquette

BC Studies no. 48 Winter 1980-1981 | Page(s) 21-36

archaeology Kootenay District

Victoria Underfoot: Excavating a City’s Secrets

This is a colourful guidebook to the archaeology of Victoria, both with regard to pre-contact Northwest Coast Aboriginal peoples and of the extremely varied inhabitants of postcontact Victoria. It ranges from a three thousand-year-old wet...

Review by R. Matson

BC Studies no. 165 Spring 2010 | Page(s) 116-7

Rewriting Marpole: The Path to Cultural Complexity in the Gulf of Georgia Region

         Rewriting Marpole is the published version of Clark’s PhD dissertation (Clark, 2010) and an outgrowth of his MA thesis (Clark, 2000). The goal of his research “is to determine the spatial...

Review by Jesse Morin

BC Studies no. 182 Summer 2014 | Page(s) 218-223

People of the Middle Fraser Canyon: An Archaeological History

The authors, from the departments of anthropology at the University of Montana (Prentiss) and the University of Notre Dame (Kuijt), draw on their extensive and recent archaeological work in the interior of British Columbia to...

Review by Douglas Hudson

BC Studies no. 179 Autumn 2013 | Page(s) 218-220

Is it a house? Archaeological Excavations at English Camp, San Juan Island, Washington

Synthesizing archaeological research results from the Salish Sea can be a time-consuming task because of the international boundary that currently divides the region. This is further complicated by the rise of cultural resource management archaeology...

Review by Duncan McLaren

BC Studies no. 176 Winter 2012-2013 | Page(s) 157-9