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

Internet Archaeology ◽

10.11141/ia.56.3.ref ◽

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.

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

Internet Archaeology ◽

10.11141/ia.56.3 ◽

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).

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

North American Archaeologist ◽

10.1177/0197693120916965 ◽

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.

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