Index

Activity areas, 64–69 faunal, 86–90 Aggrandizers, 109–115 lithic, 58–61 Archaic, 7, 11, 108–9 Fraser River, 2 Architecture, 55–56 Fraser, Simon, 2 Art, 8, 11 Generalized hunter-gatherers, 11, 12, 47, 115 Basketry, 83–84 Gift giving, 109–111 Big Men, 109 Gini indices, 48–49 Birds, 98, 101 Glaciers, 2 Boiling, 8, 87–90 Bone, jewelry, 98–99 Hearths, 49–51 tools, 100 Heating strategies, 49–51 Burials, 13, 22 Hierarchies, 13, 25, 47–49, 107–115 Hunter-gatherers, See Complex hunter- Chemistry, soil, See Soil chemistry. gatherers, Generalized hunter-gatherers. Chiefs, See Elites. Hunting, 20, 89, 92 Competition, 8, 12–13 Complex hunter-gatherers, 1, 7–9, 10–13, 22, Inheritance, 19, 22–23 104–118 defined, 8, 10 Jewelry, 11, 98–99 Complexity, 8–9, 47–49, 98–103, 108ff Conifer, needles, 76–78 Llllooet, town, 2 posts, 57 Lorenz curves, 48–49 Contracts, 109–110, 113–115 Copper, 72, 104 Mesolithic, 7–8, 108–109 Corporate groups, See Residential corporate definition, 8 groups. Microblades, 6 Coyotes, 15, 118–125 Middle Prehistoric period, 6 Cultural ecology, 1, 11 Mobility, See Sedentism. Cultural evolution, 7–8, 11–12, 108–110 Morgan, Lewis Henry, 6, 101 Curation, tool, 100 Neolithic, 8 Debitage, 63–65 Nephrite, 70, 104 Debt, 109–111, 114, 115 Deer fences 104 Ownership, 8, 13, 22, 24, 74–75, 101, Dogs, 22, 94–98, 103, 124 104–107, 109 Domestication, 8, 84, 98, 103 Pipes, 73, 84 Elites, 22–23, 70, 104, 112–116 Planks, wood, 82 Ethnographic analogy, 16–17, 25, 78 Plants, food, 76–81 technology, 81–85 Fats, 20, 89–90, 92 diversity, 85 Feasts, 22–23, 59, 112, 114–116 Political organization, 22 Fire-cracked rock, 40, 61–63 Polygyny, 19, 116–7 Firewood, 81 Population, density, 11–12, 43–47 Fishing sites and platforms, 18–19, 87–89 site, 45 Formation processes, 35–42 Postholes, 54–57, 107 botanical, 76 Post-Processual archaeology, 9–10 134 Index Potlatch, See feasts Sleeping areas, 76–78 Prestige objects, 8, 12–13, 70–73, 98–99, Smoking, 84 104, 114 Social organization, 22 Processual archaeology, 9–10 Soil chemistry, 78–80 Status, 109, 111–112 Refuse, See Formation Processes; deer, 92 Stone, tools, 59ff Residential corporate groups, 26, 101, sources, 105–106 104–107, 112–116 Storage, food, 8, 11–13, 20, 104, 108 Resources, 1, 7, 11–12, 18–25, 101, 108– pits, 51–54, 107 109,116–117 tool, 69 overexploitation of, 12 Stratification; economic, social, political, 25 ownership of, See Ownership. Roasting pits, 57–58 Technology, 8, 12, 108–109 Roofs, 39–41, 55–57 Testing program, 28–34 Trade, 13, 22, 108, 114 Sacrifices, dog, 96–98 Transegalitarian societies, 11, 20, 109–114 Salmon, 18, 20, 86–93, 100–103 Triple ‘A’ personalities, 109, 113 Sedentism, 11–12 Shamans, 103 Upper Paleolithic, 7, 11, 108 Sharing, 12–13, 22 Shells, 98–99, 104 Warfare, 22, 111, 114 Simple hunter-gatherers, See Generalized Wealth, 22 hunter-gatherers. Wives, 19, 116–7 Slavery, 7, 13, 22–23, 70, 90, 98, 114 Women, 19–20, 23, 67–68