Shellfish Harvest on the Coast of British Columbia: The Archaeology of Settlement and Subsistence through High-resolution Stable Isotope Analysis and Sclerochronology

• Main Author: Burchell, Meghan
• Other Authors: Cannon, Aubrey, Schwarcz, Henry, Anthropology
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: Archaeology; Sclerochronology; Stable Isotopes: Hunter-Gatherers; Seasonality; British Columbia; Archaeological Anthropology; Biogeochemistry; Earth Sciences; Other Anthropology; Other Earth Sciences; Pacific; Rupert; Prince Rupert; Prince Rupert Harbour; Dundas Islands; Tsimshian; Tsimshian*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11375/12921

In many interpretations of hunter-gatherer settlement systems, archaeologists have assumed implicitly or explicitly that a pattern of mobilitybased on seasonally-scheduled movements between different site locations waspracticed. This pattern of mobility is often characterized as a seasonal round, wh...