On the Role of Coastal Landscape Evolution in Detecting Fish Weirs: A Pacific Northwest Coast Example From Washington State

Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 45-71

  Elder, J Tait ^a   Gilmour, Daniel M ^b   Butler, Virginia L ^c   Campbell, Sarah K ^d   Steingraber, Aubrey ^d  

^a ICF INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^b Willamette Cultural Resources Associates Ltd   (United States)

^c PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

coastal; fishing; geoarchaeology; Northwest; taphonomy formation processes

Indexed keywords

CAPTURE METHOD; COAST; DATABASE; FISH; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; SOCIAL ORGANIZATION; TAPHONOMY; VISIBILITY; WEIR;

PACIFIC NORTHWEST;

EID: 84896307478     PISSN: 15564894     EISSN: 15561828     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15564894.2014.881933     Document Type: Article

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