Smoke on the water: uncovering a socially complex pre-contact Babine fishing village at Nass Glee (GISQ-4)

• Other Authors: Hackett, Cory (Author), Rahemtulla, Farid (Thesis advisor), Binnema, Theodore (Thesis advisor), University of Northern British Columbia College of Arts, Social, and Health Sciences (Degree granting institution), Sharp, Karyn (Committee member)
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: University of Northern British Columbia 2017
• Subjects: Babine Lake; Babine River; First Nations
• Online Access: https://arcabc.ca/islandora/object/unbc%3A17389; https://doi.org/10.24124/2017/1404

For the last century there has been very little modification to the geographic boundaries for the Northwest coast culture area, as defined by anthropologists. Moreover, complex hunter-gatherer models, which identify the hallmarks for social complexity of coastal First Nations, tend to exclude inland...