THE• Publication of the Archaeological Society of British Columbia ISSN 0,047-7222 Vol. 24, No.2 April 1992 AN EMERGING PICTURE OF THE NUU-CHAH-NULTH PAST See article on page 3. --------------~·~-------------- THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY Published five times a year by the Archaeological Society of British Columbia. OF BRITISH COLUMBIA The next issue will appear in June 1992. is dedicated to EDITOR the protection of archaeological resources and Joyce Johnson the spread of archaeological knowledge. ASSIST ANT EDITOR Marjorie Smith Meetings featuring illustrated lectures are held on the second Wednesday of each month (except July and August) ASSIST ANT EDITOR (PUBLICA liONS) at 8:00pm, in the Vancouver Museum Auditorium. Barbara Stopa Visitors and new members are welcome! CONTRIBUTORS THIS ISSUE PRESIDENT Yvonne Marshall, Alan D. McMillan, William Paull (980-5186) Ann Stevenson, Brian Thorn VICE-PRESIDENT CREW Vacant Vicki Feddenuna MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY DESIGN I PRODUCTION Toni Crittenden (736-4708) Yvon Lantaigne ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP FEES Submissions and exchange publications should be directed to: Single $25.00 Joyce Johnson, Editor, The Midden, c/o UBC Archaeology, Family $30.00 6303 N.W. Marine Dr., Vancouver, B.C., V6T 1Zl. Contributions on subjects germane to B.C. archaeology are Seniors & Students $18.00 welcomed: maximum length 15 00 words, no footnotes and only a brief bibliography (if required at all). Guidelines are available. Membership includes subscription to The Midden and the A.S.B.C. newsletter, SocNotes. SUBSCRIPTIONS Make cheque or postal money order payable to the A.S.B .C. Helmi Braches Send to: A.S.B.C., Membership Secretary, Subscription is included with membership in the Archaeological P.O. Box 520, Station A, Vancouver, B.C. V6C 2N3 Society of British Columbia. Non-member rates are $14.50 per year. ($17.00 U.SA. and overseas) payable in Canadian funds AFFILIATED CHAPTER to the A.S.B.C. Send to: A.S.B.C., Midden Subscriptions, Fraser Valley P.O. Box 520, Station A, Vancouver, B'.C. V6C 2N3 Meetings featuring illustrated lectures are held Copyright. on the third Tuesday of each month, September to May, Contents of The Midden are copyrighted by the A.S.B.C. It is at 7:45pm at Fraser Valley College, Abbotsford. unlawful to reproduce all or any part, by any means whatsoever, without pernilssion of the Society, which is usually gladly given. PRESIDENT Publication of The Midden is made possible in part by financial Thelma Mcintyre (853-1495) assistance from the B.C. Heritage Trust and B.C. Lottery revenues through the Ministry of Municipal Affairs, MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY Recreation and Culture. Andy Purdy (823-4920) A.S.B.C. DIARY All meetings are held at 8 pm in the Vancouver Museum Auditorium, unless otherwise indicated. April 8: Dr. David Burley The Archaeology of a Polynesian Chiefdom: Recent Research in the Ha'apai Islands, Kingdom of Tonga. May 13: Dr. Louise Jackson I Work in the Northern Pacific-Alaska and Russia May 16: Open Meeting: Projects Committee FRONT COVER: Brian Thorn, location T.B.A. Excavation at the bottom of a unit in the village portion June 10: Annual General Meeting of the T'ukw'aa site. A sample is being collected for Andrew Mason (tentative) radiocarbon dating. On the Hatzic Site excavations. See article on page 3. - SUMMER FIEI 40 RESEARCH WITH THEAS.B.C. N RECENT YEARS, TilE ARCHAEOLOGICAL record new ones filled out by survey With so many ideas on the table, the Society of British Columbia has been workers as the project progresses. This Projects Committee is calling a meeting I faced with a lack of oppornmities to scheme allows for the involvement of a of everyone interested in participating. take part in ongoing archaeological field­ wide variety of members. The meeting will be held on Saturday work and research. This spring, a group Many ideas for survey areas have May 16th (specific time and place to be of young A.S.B.C. members agreed to been suggested. The current list includes announced in Soc Notes). During this form a Projects Committee, whose goal Stanley Park, Pacific Spirit Park meeting, these ideas will be worked out, is to organize a continuing project in (U.E.L.), or the Fraser River Estuary and new ones considered. We hope to which volunteer members could take region. Site record forms at the have a solid plan of action for the sum­ part in. The sort of research that could Archaeology Branch for Stanley Park mer months by the end of May. be done by the A.S.B.C. would be mod­ and Pacific Spirit Park indicate that these Everyone's input is welcome at the meet­ est, but would contribute some new areas have not been reviewed to a large ing. If you can't attend but want to get knowledge to B.C. Archaeology. degree since 1986, and many of the sites involved, write your ideas down and send The Projects Committee feels that a even less recently than that. Updating them to the Projects Committee do the site survey project in the Greater these records and possibly adding to A.S.B.C. Vancouver area would be both achiev­ them would aid future impact assessment Clearly, the central aim of Projects able and useful. The close proximity of evaluations. Committee is to get the A.S.B.C. active the survey area to the majority of the The intertidal areas of the Fraser River in research and fieldwork which will members, and the flexibility of time pos­ Estuary have not been surveyed to a large increase the knowledge of the history of sible in doing such work would make it degree. This is partially due to the high our province and introduce new interest feasible for many to participate. Less water levels existing in the summer, which into the Society. mobile members could do archival would cover up many possible deposits. research to determine the current status However, this region could be studied in BRIANTHOM of existing site records, and to properly the fall, when the water levels are lower. ASBC Projects Chairperson LETTER TO THE EDITOR . .. As a contributor and subscriber to profession as a whole had not been The Midden I want to congratulate you served. Where is Wilson Duff in the and your many supporters on your issue? Where are the University of twenty-fifth anniversary of publication, Victoria, the Royal British Columbia TABLE OF CONTENTS and especially William Paull's open let­ Museum, the Archaeology Branch of the ter to Kitty Bernick. Kitty's editorial provincial government, the many insti­ News Items 2 excellence, personal integrity, and high tutions and individuals around the professional standards will be missed. province who have contributed to B.C. At the same time I want to register archaeology and to The Midden? TheToquaht my disappointment at the narrowness of Finally, where are the Native people Archaeology Project 3 the issue. Surely the twenty-fifth of the province? anniversary of The Midden would have Debitage 6 been the occasion to celebr~te the RICHARD MAcKIE achievements of B.C. archaeology and Victoria, B.C. Nootka Sound Stories 7 archaeologists over the last quarter cen­ tury and over the whole province. The Well, where are they? We're waiting! Book Review 11 issue left me with the feeling that the THE EDITOR Permits 12 ERRATA Lectures 13 In the February-March issue, the address for the Editor should have read: do UBC Archaeology Exhibitions 13 6303 N.W. Marine Drive Vancouver, B.C. V6T 3R4 Conferences 13 Apologies for the mispelling of Vicki FEDDEMA's name. NEWS ITEMS CANADIAN ARCHAEOLOGISTS MONTE CREEK TO MEET ANOTHER HATZIC? REVISITED HE 25TH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE N SEARCH OF A SITE FOR UB.Cs FIELD URTHER RADIOCARBON DATING FROM Canadian Archaeological Association school this summer, archaeology fac­ the salvage excavations exposing Twill be held this year in London, I ulty were wandering around a Fthree dwellings at Monte Creek Ontario from Tuesday, May 5th through farmer's cornfield just outside Chilliwack. (EdQx 4 3) near Kamloops last fall reveals Sunday, May 1Oth. The owner of the field had displayed a consistently an age of over 4000 years. General sessions and symposia cover collection of artifacts plowed up over the Cones from a smudge pit outside the a wide scope of Canadian archaeology · years, and stated that the deposit was at structures dated 4260 ± 90; two samples including areal studies, subsistence, his­ least half a metre deep. The field exhib­ from the roof layer of structure 2 came in torical aspects, artifacts and technology, ited lithics thickly scattered over the at 4350 ± 100, and 4450 ± 120; and two scientific techniques, ethnicity, and plowed surface. from floor deposits provided dates of "Canadian archaeologists beyond their A bit of stone the size of an apple 4200 ± 90 and 4250 ± 90. borders?' protruding from the surface did not A drilled olivella shell, 12 keyhole The agenda includes full and half-day move when nudged. Closer examination limpet beads (8 in direct association with wo~kshops scheduled throughout the revealed a large zoomorphic stone bowl a drilled and polished elk canine pen­ conference, with tours on the weekend. about a foot long by 8 inches wide and 6 dant), and an abundance of red ochre A public session and panel discussion on inches deep, representing a frog-lipped were recovered in addition to the 93 ,000 Saturday will look at "Direct Partici­ figure. Though zoomorphic stone bowls pieces oflithic debitage and 17,500 tools, pation: First Nations and Archaeology." exist in public collections, few, if any, including about 100 of bone.