Athapaskan migrations; the archaeology of Eagle Lake, British Columbia.

9780816524891

Athapaskan migrations; the archaeology of Eagle Lake, British Columbia.

Matson, R. G.

U. of Arizona Press

2007

182 pages

$65.00

Hardcover

E99

Reporting on archaeological research undertaken in

the region of Eagle Lake in the west -central Interior Plateau of British Columbia, Canada, the central issues that concern Matson (emeritus, anthropology, U. of British Columbia, Canada) and Magne (manager of cultural resource services for Parks Canada and professor at U. of Calgary, Canada) are the recognition and dating of Athapaskan material culture and its implications for the arrival of the Chilcotin peoples and larger Athapaskan migrations. The methodologies employed in the investigation include ethnic group identification, settlement pattern analysis, lithic technological analysis, and dendochronology.

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