Long term histories and archaeology of the Stave Watershed Region of southwestern British Columbia
| dc.contributor.author | McLaren, Duncan | |
| dc.contributor.supervisor | Mackie, Quentin | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-08-07T22:47:49Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-08-07T22:47:49Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2003 | |
| dc.degree.department | Department of Anthropology | |
| dc.description.abstract | This thesis explores multiple ways in which long-term history is constructed, described, and enacted. The goal of undertaking this research is to discover if different long-term historical approaches provide compatible perspectives of the past. Five different approaches to the late-Pleistocene and Holocene histories of the Stave Watershed region of British Columbia are investigated. These approaches include palaeo-environmental history, Coast Salish oral tradition, the cultural-historical sequence, and two sequences based on the analysis of surface collected archaeological data from fifty sites in the study area. The last two sequences employed the use of a seriation analysis to temporally order formed bifaces and site locations, and a cluster analysis to characterize different land-use and settlement patterns in the study area through time. The long-term histories are compared, contrasted, and tabulated to demonstrate the interrelatedness of sequences and to gain an understanding of the role of social memory in enacting tradition. | |
| dc.description.scholarlevel | Graduate | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1828/22571 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.rights | Available to the World Wide Web | |
| dc.title | Long term histories and archaeology of the Stave Watershed Region of southwestern British Columbia | |
| dc.type | Thesis |