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Waterlogged

Jenny M. Cohen | Stan Copp | Dale R. Croes | Deidre Cullon | Morley Eldridge | Alisha Gauvreau | Tyler Graham | Brendan Gray | Kathleen L. Hawes
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A01=Alisha Gauvreau
A01=Brendan Gray
A01=Dale R. Croes
A01=Deidre Cullon
A01=Jenny M. Cohen
A01=Kathleen L. Hawes
A01=Morley Eldridge
A01=Stan Copp
A01=Tyler Graham
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British Columbia archaeology
Canada archaeology
caring for perishable artifacts
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Fraser Valley archaeology
Language_English
locating wet sites
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recovering perishable artifacts
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Vancouver Island wetlands
water-saturated sites
waterlogged materials
wet-site equipment
wet-site field kit
wet-site logistics
wetland archaeology

Product details

  • ISBN 9780874223668
  • Weight: 408g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 12 Apr 2019
  • Publisher: Washington State University Press
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
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Description
On the Northwest Coast in antiquity, an estimated 85 percent of objects were made entirely from materials that normally do not survive the ravages of time. Fortunately, the region's wetlands, silt-laden rivers, high groundwater levels, and abundant rainfall provide ideal conditions for long-term preservation of waterlogged wood. Few archaeologists intentionally search for them, yet every Northwest Coast archaeologist may encounter waterlogged cultural remains--even inland, away from the coast. Those who investigate can uncover artifacts, structures, and environmental remains missing from the usual reconstructions of past lifeways.

Currently, wet-site archaeology is not widely taught at North American universities. Waterlogged helps bridge that gap. Sixteen archaeologists who work on the Northwest Coast discuss their research in regional and global perspectives, share highlights of their findings, provide guidance on how to locate wet sites, and outline procedures for recovering and caring for perishable waterlogged artifacts. The volume offers practical information about logistics, equipment, and supplies, including a wet-site field kit list.

Waterlogged presents previously unpublished original research spanning the past ten thousand years of human presence on the Northwest Coast. Examples include the first fish trap features in the region to be identified as longshore weirs, a complete 750-year-old basket cradle from the lower Fraser Valley, wooden self-armed fishhooks from the Salish Sea, and a paleoethnobotanical study at the 10,500-year-old Kilgii Gwaay wet site on Haida Gwaii. Contributors also discuss insider-vs.-outsider perceptions of wetlands in Cowichan traditional territory on Vancouver Island, a habitation site in a disappearing wetland in the Fraser Valley, a collaborative project on the Babine River in the Fraser Plateau, and Early and Middle Holocene waterlogged materials from British Columbia's central coast.
About Alisha Gauvreau | Brendan Gray | Dale R. Croes | Deidre Cullon | Jenny M. Cohen | Kathleen L. Hawes | Morley Eldridge | Stan Copp | Tyler Graham
Kathryn Bernick is a research associate in archaeology at the Royal British Columbia Museum and an internationally recognized expert on basketry technology.

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