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

scholarly journals Ancient individuals from the North American Northwest Coast reveal 10,000 years of regional genetic continuity

2017 ◽  
Vol 114 (16) ◽  
pp. 4093-4098 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Lindo ◽  
Alessandro Achilli ◽  
Ugo A. Perego ◽  
David Archer ◽  
Cristina Valdiosera ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Northwest ◽  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
North American ◽  
Archaeological Site ◽  
Northwest Coast ◽  
Genetic Lineage ◽  
Pacific Northwest Coast ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Genetic Continuity ◽  
Low Coverage

Recent genomic studies of both ancient and modern indigenous people of the Americas have shed light on the demographic processes involved during the first peopling. The Pacific Northwest Coast proves an intriguing focus for these studies because of its association with coastal migration models and genetic ancestral patterns that are difficult to reconcile with modern DNA alone. Here, we report the low-coverage genome sequence of an ancient individual known as “Shuká Káa” (“Man Ahead of Us”) recovered from the On Your Knees Cave (OYKC) in southeastern Alaska (archaeological site 49-PET-408). The human remains date to ∼10,300 calendar (cal) y B.P. We also analyze low-coverage genomes of three more recent individuals from the nearby coast of British Columbia dating from ∼6,075 to 1,750 cal y B.P. From the resulting time series of genetic data, we show that the Pacific Northwest Coast exhibits genetic continuity for at least the past 10,300 cal y B.P. We also infer that population structure existed in the late Pleistocene of North America with Shuká Káa on a different ancestral line compared with other North American individuals from the late Pleistocene or early Holocene (i.e., Anzick-1 and Kennewick Man). Despite regional shifts in mtDNA haplogroups, we conclude from individuals sampled through time that people of the northern Northwest Coast belong to an early genetic lineage that may stem from a late Pleistocene coastal migration into the Americas.

Acoustic surveys of killer whales during winter along the Pacific Northwest Coast

2004 ◽  
Vol 116 (4) ◽  
pp. 2589-2589
Author(s):  
Thomas Norris ◽  
Brad Hanson ◽  
Dawn Noren ◽  
Linda Jones
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Northwest ◽  
Northwest Coast ◽  
Killer Whales ◽  
Pacific Northwest Coast ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Acoustic Surveys

scholarly journals What drives the evolution of hunter–gatherer subsistence technology? A reanalysis of the risk hypothesis with data from the Pacific Northwest

2011 ◽  
Vol 366 (1567) ◽  
pp. 1129-1138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Collard ◽  
Briggs Buchanan ◽  
Jesse Morin ◽  
Andre Costopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Northwest ◽  
Northwest Coast ◽  
Contact Period ◽  
Hunter Gatherers ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Relevant Variables ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

Recent studies have suggested that the decisions that hunter–gatherers make about the diversity and complexity of their subsistence toolkits are strongly affected by risk of resource failure. However, the risk proxies and samples employed in these studies are potentially problematic. With this in mind, we retested the risk hypothesis with data from hunter–gatherer populations who lived in the northwest coast and plateau regions of the Pacific Northwest during the early contact period. We focused on these populations partly because the northwest coast and plateau differ in ways that can be expected to lead to differences in risk, and partly because of the availability of data for a wide range of risk-relevant variables. Our analyses suggest that the plateau was a more risky environment than the northwest coast. However, the predicted differences in the number and complexity of the populations' subsistence tools were not observed. The discrepancy between our results and those of previous tests of the risk hypothesis is not due to methodological differences. Rather, it seems to reflect an important but hitherto unappreciated feature of the relationship between risk and toolkit structure, namely that the impact of risk is dependent on the scale of the risk differences among populations.

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