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Hayden - A Complex Culture of the British Columbia Plateau: Traditional Stl´atl´imx Resource Use - 9780774804059 - V9780774804059
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A Complex Culture of the British Columbia Plateau: Traditional Stl´atl´imx Resource Use

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Description for A Complex Culture of the British Columbia Plateau: Traditional Stl´atl´imx Resource Use Hardback. This volume considers two British Columbia Native communities -- the Lillooet and Shuswap communities of Fountain and Pavilion -- and traces their development into complex societies. Editor(s): Hayden, Brian. Num Pages: 584 pages, 59 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBC; JFSL9; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887. Weight in Grams: 1030.

Early hunter/gatherer societies have traditionally been considered basically egalitarian in nature. This assumption, however, has been challenged by contemporary archaeological and anthropological research, which has demonstrated that many of these societies had complex social, economic, and political structures.

This volume considers two British Columbia Native communities – the Lillooet and Shuswap communities of Fountain and Pavilion – and traces their development into complex societies. The authors explore the relation between resource characteristics and hunter/gatherer adaptations and examine the use of fish, animal, and plant species, documenting their availability and the techniques used in their gathering, processing, and storing. The book also ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
584
Condition
New
Number of Pages
584
Place of Publication
Vancouver, Canada
ISBN
9780774804059
SKU
V9780774804059
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Hayden
Brian Hayden is a professor in the Department of Archaeology at Simon Fraser University.

Reviews for A Complex Culture of the British Columbia Plateau: Traditional Stl´atl´imx Resource Use
This volume gathers together a variety of investigations that were subsidiary to the main archaeological work, work primarily concerned with aspects of ethnographic use of this environment by the Lillooet ...This will be an important volume for my library, and one that may gain importance when the main research findings, those deriving from the Keatly Creek site itself, reach print. ... Read more

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