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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
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