scholarly journals Technology as Human Social Tradition: 15 Trait-Based Datasets of Hunter-Gatherer Material Culture (Northwest Siberia, Pacific Northwest Coast, Northern California). Data Paper

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Jordan
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Pacific Northwest ◽  
Cultural Transmission ◽  
Geographic Region ◽  
Northwest Coast ◽  
Northern California ◽  
Hunter Gatherers ◽  
Pacific Northwest Coast ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Social Tradition

How are particular material culture traditions passed from one generation to the next? The digital archive supports "Technology as Human Social Tradition: Cultural Transmission among Hunter-Gatherers" (Jordan 2015) published by University of California Press. The archive consists of 15 Excel files which were used to conduct in-depth analysis of the factors driving diversity and change in material culture traditions. Each file contains a high-resolution survey of the design features of one material tradition practised by groups living in a geographic region. Three regions are investigated: Northwest Siberia (storage platforms shrines, skis); Pacific Northwest Coast of Canada (houses, canoes, basketry-matting); Northern California (basketry, houses, ceremonial dress).

scholarly journals Referee statement on Technology as Human Social Tradition: 15 Trait-Based Datasets of Hunter-Gatherer Material Culture (Northwest Siberia, Pacific Northwest Coast, Northern California). Data Paper

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Prentiss
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Pacific Northwest ◽  
Northwest Coast ◽  
Northern California ◽  
Coast Salish ◽  
Pacific Northwest Coast ◽  
Social Tradition

The data provide significant opportunities for new investigations. The data are structured in such a way that each of Jordan's studies can be replicated spanning Khanty, Coast Salish, and various Indigenous Californian technological traditions.

scholarly journals Toward a geography of foodways in the southern Gulf Islands, Pacific Northwest Coast

2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-32
Author(s):  
Paul A Ewonus ◽  
Camilla F Speller ◽  
Roy L Carlson ◽  
Dongya Y Yang
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Pacific Northwest ◽  
Pacific Salmon ◽  
Northwest Coast ◽  
Small Fish ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Similar Data ◽  
Coast Salish ◽  
Pacific Northwest Coast ◽  
Gulf Islands

Fine-screen animal bone and Pacific salmon ancient DNA (aDNA) results from Northwest Coast shell midden sites, together with other kinds of material culture, can provide detailed information on foodways, site-specific activities, and sociality. Seasonal use of the landscape may also be revealed through an understanding of place in the southern Gulf Islands of British Columbia, Canada. New results from column sample faunal analysis at the Pender Canal site are considered in conjunction with previously identified fauna. Alongside site characteristics, zooarchaeological and aDNA species identification data are employed to help reconstruct activities that people undertook. These tasks and their social implications at Pender Canal are contextualized with a discussion of several similar data sets from contemporary sites in the region. Temporal patterns in small fish remains and ancient salmon DNA at Pender Canal correspond with region-wide changes in land use, helping us interpret the formation of Coast Salish social relationships and identities over millennia.

scholarly journals Untangling cultural inheritance: language diversity and long-house architecture on the Pacific northwest coast

2010 ◽  
Vol 365 (1559) ◽  
pp. 3875-3888 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Jordan ◽  
Sean O'Neill
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Northwest ◽  
Cultural Transmission ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Vernacular Architecture ◽  
Northwest Coast ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Cultural Inheritance ◽  
Pacific Northwest Coast ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Macro Scale

Many recent studies of cultural inheritance have focused on small-scale craft traditions practised by single individuals, which do not require coordinated participation by larger social collectives. In this paper, we address this gap in the cultural transmission literature by investigating diversity in the vernacular architecture of the Pacific northwest coast, where communities of hunter–fisher–gatherers constructed immense wooden long-houses at their main winter villages. Quantitative analyses of long-house styles along the coastline draw on a range of models and methods from the biological sciences and are employed to test hypotheses relating to basic patterns of macro-scale cultural diversification, and the degree to which the transmission of housing traits has been constrained by the region's numerous linguistic boundaries. The results indicate relatively strong branching patterns of cultural inheritance and also close associations between regional language history and housing styles, pointing to the potentially crucial role played by language boundaries in structuring large-scale patterns of cultural diversification, especially in relation to ‘collective’ cultural traditions like housing that require substantial inputs of coordinated labour.

scholarly journals Engineered feature used to enhance gardening at a 3800-year-old site on the Pacific Northwest Coast

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (12) ◽  
pp. e1601282 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tanja Hoffmann ◽  
Natasha Lyons ◽  
Debbie Miller ◽  
Alejandra Diaz ◽  
Amy Homan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Northwest ◽  
Direct Evidence ◽  
Wild Plant ◽  
Northwest Coast ◽  
Ecological Niches ◽  
Archaeological Excavation ◽  
Hunter Gatherers ◽  
Pacific Northwest Coast ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Wild Plant Food

Humans use a variety of deliberate means to modify biologically rich environs in pursuit of resource stability and predictability. Empirical evidence suggests that ancient hunter-gatherer populations engineered ecological niches to enhance the productivity and availability of economically significant resources. An archaeological excavation of a 3800-year-old wetland garden in British Columbia, Canada, provides the first direct evidence of an engineered feature designed to facilitate wild plant food production among mid-to-late Holocene era complex fisher-hunter-gatherers of the Northwest Coast. This finding provides an example of environmental, economic, and sociopolitical coevolutionary relationships that are triggered when humans manipulate niche environs.

Nootka: Indian Music of the Pacific Northwest Coast

1981 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda J. Goodman ◽  
Ida Halpern
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Northwest ◽  
Northwest Coast ◽  
Pacific Northwest Coast ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Indian Music
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