Cultural forests of the Southern Nuu-chah-nulth: historical ecology and salvage archaeology on Vancouver Island's West Coast

Cultural forests of the Southern Nuu-chah-nulth: historical ecology and salvage archaeology on Vancouver Island's West Coast

Cedar, represented by Western redcedar (Thuja plicata) and Yellow Cedar (Chamaecyparis nootkatensis) was known as the “Tree of Life” to the Nuu-chah-nulth on Vancouver Island’s west coast, and most other groups of the Pacific Northwest. This thesis investigates the Culturally Modified Trees (CMTs),...

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Main Author: Earnshaw, Jacob Thomas Kinze
Other Authors: Mackie, Quentin
Language:English
en
Published: 2016
Subjects:
CMT
Culturally Modified Tree
Vancouver Island
northwest coast archaeology
Historical Ecology
Salvage Archaeology
western redcedar
thuja plicata
first nations land claims
bark stripping and peeling
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1828/7291

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http://hdl.handle.net/1828/7291

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