Past Events: 2009

Reconstructing the Economics of Long-Term Settlement in the Southern Gulf Islands

Colin Grier
Speaker: 
Colin Grier
Event Date & Time: 
Thursday, June 4, 2009 - 7:00pm
Location: 
Joyce Walley Learning Centre, Vancouver Museum
1100 Chestnut Street, Vancouver
application/pdf iconASBC_Lecture_Poster_June_4_2009.pdf

Research underway in the southern Gulf Islands of the Salish Sea represents a multifaceted approach to reconstructing the long-term settlement history of Coast Salish peoples. Taking a multi-site, comparative perspective, research focuses on six key cuspate spit-based village sites that capture five millennia of pre-contact Salish history. This talk outlines the research goals for the project, presents a model for understanding the co-evolution of cuspate spit landforms and Coast Salish lifeways, and situates southern Gulf Islands pre-contact history in relation to archaeological arguments concerning the origins of social complexity on the Northwest Coast.

An update on Parks Canada's Archaeological Programme in the Gulf Islands and Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserves

Gulf Islands and Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserves
Speaker: 
Daryl Fedje
Event Date & Time: 
Thursday, March 5, 2009 - 7:30pm
Location: 
Joyce Walley Learning Centre, Vancouver Museum 1100 Chestnut Street, Vancouver
application/pdf iconASBC_Lecture_Poster_Mar_5_2009.pdf

Snapshots of Parks Canada’s work in the Gulf Islands and Gwaii Haanas will be presented.  For the Gulf Islands, recent inventory work and preliminary results of an intertidal testing programme will be presented. The collaborative work on Gwaii Haanas relating to history and environment at the Pleistocene-Holocene transition, including karst cave, raised beach and intertidal investigations will also be presented.

The Saltery Bay Site: An Early Period Maritime Site on the Sunshine Coast of BC

The Saltery Bay Site
Speaker: 
Brian Pegg
Event Date & Time: 
Thursday, January 15, 2009 - 7:30pm
Location: 
Gallery 11, Vancouver Museum
1100 Chestnut Street, Vancouver
application/pdf iconJan_2009_Poster.pdf

During May and June of 2004, a CRM-based excavation was conducted at the Saltery Bay site (DkSb-30) near Powell River on the Sunshine Coast in British Columbia. Saltery Bay is a stratified shell midden site with approximately 1.2 m of anthropogenic sediments. The site had not previously been systematically examined by archaeologists. Much to the surprise of the researchers, radiometric analysis of animal bone samples from the lowest levels of the site returned calibrated dates of 7620, 6885 and 5960 years before present, making Saltery Bay the oldest know occupation on the BC Coast between the Glenrose site in Greater Vancouver and the Namu site on the central coast. The presentation will briefly discuss the methodology, results, and interpretations from this fascinating site.