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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...
BC Studies no. 190 Summer 2016 | Page(s) 133-134
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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...
BC Studies no. 188 Winter 2015-2016 | Page(s) 123-24
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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....
BC Studies no. 174 Summer 2012 | Page(s) 125-7
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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...
BC Studies no. 179 Autumn 2013 | Page(s) 220-222
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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...
BC Studies no. 156-157 Winter-Spring 2007-2008 | Page(s) 187-90
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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...
BC Studies no. 183 Autumn 2014 | Page(s) 146-48
reflection
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Papers on Central Coast Archaeology
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 62, Summer 1984
BC Studies no. 62 Summer 1984 | Page(s) 74-6
research note
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At a Crossroads: Archaeology and First Peoples in Canada
PDF – Book Reviews, BC Studies 130, Summer 2001
BC Studies no. 130 Summer 2001 | Page(s) 114-6
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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...
BC Studies no. 165 Spring 2010 | Page(s) 116-7
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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...
BC Studies no. 182 Summer 2014 | Page(s) 218-223
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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...
BC Studies no. 179 Autumn 2013 | Page(s) 218-220
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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...
BC Studies no. 176 Winter 2012-2013 | Page(s) 157-9
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The Importance of British Material Culture to Historical Archaeologies of the Nineteenth Century
One great irony of historical archaeology is that far more research is done on nineteenth century British material culture overseas than in Britain itself, despite the importance of the Empire and its material culture to...
BC Studies no. 192 Winter 2016-2017 | Page(s) 155-156
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Haida Gwaii: Human History and Environment from the Time of the Loon to the Time of the Iron People
This edited volume, which consists of sixteen chapters plus two fore words, a preface, and a conclusion, has twenty-nine contributors. Its focus is the Parks Canada Gwaii Haanas Archaeology and Paleoecology project, which reports primarily...
BC Studies no. 152 Winter 2006-2007 | Page(s) 120-2
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Indigenous Peoples of North America: A Concise Anthropological Overview
Robert Muckle has responded to the market place need for a concise textbook treatment of the lives and circumstances of the Indigenous peoples of North America. Previous works are too long, too detailed, and unreadable...
BC Studies no. 183 Autumn 2014 | Page(s) 145-46
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Emerging from the Mist: Studies in Northwest Coast Culture History
IN ORGANIZING this collection of papers on late-period Northwest Coast archaeology, R.G. Matson, in his introduction to this edited volume, proposes to make Northwest Coast archaeology more visible in the literature alongside the prominent ethnographic...
BC Studies no. 144 Winter 2004-2005 | Page(s) 136-9
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Secwépemc People, Land, and Laws: Yerí7 re Stsq’ey’s-kucw
Marianne and Ron Ignace are members of the Secwépemc First Nation in south-central British Columbia. Ron was raised by his great-grandparents, grew up speaking Secwepemctsín, and is a former Chief. Both Ron and Marianne have...
BC Studies no. 198 Summer 2018 | Page(s) 183-4
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Kwädąy Dän Ts’inchį: Teachings from Long Ago Person Found
Sometime between 1720 and 1850, late in summer, an eighteen-year-old man was traveling in an icefield in the present-day territory of the Champagne and Aishihik First Nations, in what is now Northwestern British Columbia. Well...
BC Studies no. 199 Autumn 2018 | Page(s) 171-2
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Exploring Fort Vancouver
This fine volume is truly a “must” for those with more than a passing interest in the origins of the multi-ethnic area of the Pacific Northwest Coast, from the Aboriginal inhabitants to the eighteenth and...
BC Studies no. 176 Winter 2012-2013 | Page(s) 159-60
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Songhees Pictorial: A History of the Songhees People as Seen by Outsiders, 1790-1912
This is a wonderful addition to the history of Aboriginal peoples in British Columbia and Canada. It is unusual because it takes images as the starting point and valuable because the people upon whom it...
BC Studies no. 146 Summer 2005 | Page(s) 108-10
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In Twilight and in Dawn: A Biography of Diamond Jenness
At last there is a comprehensive biography of Diamond Jenness, perhaps Canada’s greatest anthropologist, and it’s an excellent one. Barnett Richling has risen to the task with a clear understanding of the man, his remarkable...