The role of small villages in Northern Tsimshian territory from oral and archaeological records
Small villages have been central to progressive models of hunter-gatherer-fisher complexity on the Northwest Coast as a stage in the narrative of increasingly nonegalitarian social relations. We argue that Tsimshian settlement history is more complicated. We examine settlement and chronological data...
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crsagepubl:10.1177/1469605317730411 2024-03-03T08:49:11+00:00 The role of small villages in Northern Tsimshian territory from oral and archaeological records Martindale, Andrew Marsden, Susan Patton, Katherine Ruggles, Angela Letham, Bryn Supernant, Kisha Archer, David McLaren, Duncan Ames, Kenneth M 2017 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1469605317730411 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1469605317730411 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full-xml/10.1177/1469605317730411 en eng SAGE Publications http://journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license Journal of Social Archaeology volume 17, issue 3, page 285-325 ISSN 1469-6053 1741-2951 Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Archeology journal-article 2017 crsagepubl https://doi.org/10.1177/1469605317730411 2024-02-05T10:35:53Z Small villages have been central to progressive models of hunter-gatherer-fisher complexity on the Northwest Coast as a stage in the narrative of increasingly nonegalitarian social relations. We argue that Tsimshian settlement history is more complicated. We examine settlement and chronological data for 66 village sites in the Tsimshian area, 22 of which we define as small. Small villages were present in the area as early as 6500 years ago, but they are also contemporary with larger settlements until after 1300 years ago. We suggest that small villages represent a traditional Tsimshian social entity known as the wilnat’aał, or lineage, knowledge of which is preserved in Tsimshian oral records. We argue that the persistence of this settlement and community form illustrates the foundational role of this social unit throughout Tsimshian history, a result that has implications for archaeological research in the context of Indigenous history. Article in Journal/Newspaper Tsimshian Tsimshian* SAGE Publications Journal of Social Archaeology 17 3 285 325 |
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Small villages have been central to progressive models of hunter-gatherer-fisher complexity on the Northwest Coast as a stage in the narrative of increasingly nonegalitarian social relations. We argue that Tsimshian settlement history is more complicated. We examine settlement and chronological data for 66 village sites in the Tsimshian area, 22 of which we define as small. Small villages were present in the area as early as 6500 years ago, but they are also contemporary with larger settlements until after 1300 years ago. We suggest that small villages represent a traditional Tsimshian social entity known as the wilnat’aał, or lineage, knowledge of which is preserved in Tsimshian oral records. We argue that the persistence of this settlement and community form illustrates the foundational role of this social unit throughout Tsimshian history, a result that has implications for archaeological research in the context of Indigenous history. |
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Martindale, Andrew Marsden, Susan Patton, Katherine Ruggles, Angela Letham, Bryn Supernant, Kisha Archer, David McLaren, Duncan Ames, Kenneth M |
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The role of small villages in Northern Tsimshian territory from oral and archaeological records |
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The role of small villages in Northern Tsimshian territory from oral and archaeological records |
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The role of small villages in Northern Tsimshian territory from oral and archaeological records |
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The role of small villages in Northern Tsimshian territory from oral and archaeological records |
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