Divergent population dynamics in the middle to late Holocene lower Fraser valley and mid-Fraser canyon, British Columbia

Prentiss, Anna Marie; Edinborough, Kevan; Crema, Enrico R.; Kuijt, Ian; Goodale, Nathan; Ryan, Ethan; Edwards, Alysha; Foor, Thomas A.

doi:10.1016/j.jasrep.2022.103512

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“…Sites were classified into three spatial regions San Juan sites (including 45SK421 for consistency with previous SJAP research), NW Washington, and NW Washington Interior ( Fig 3 ). While as Prentiss and colleagues [ 71 ] have noted that legacy radiocarbon data are not always ideal, this study is intended to compile and provide access to “gray literature” dates from a portion of the Salish Sea with considerable archaeological research from the cultural resource management sector which has been underrepresented in discussions of the Northwest Coast.…”

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Assessing population dynamics in the Central Salish Sea, Pacific Northwest Coast of North America

Rorabaugh

2023

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Recent developments in radiocarbon dating have enabled archaeologists to re-examine the question of population dynamism in the Salish Sea. This study expands on Taylor and colleagues (2011) using Kernel Density Estimation (KDE) and an expanded data set of 538 radiocarbon dates from academic and cultural resource management literature. The expanded sample suggests a pattern of population growth from 3200–2800 cal BP in coastal Northwestern Washington, with population growth in the San Juan islands during 2600–2200 cal BP. A subsequent decrease in radiocarbon frequencies and large sites suggests shifts in use of the San Juan Islands, followed by peak large-scale occupation from 650–300 cal BP. This pattern is robust whether marine or terrestrial dates are considered. However, marine dates are less sensitive to questions at smaller temporal scales. The broad scale radiocarbon frequency patterns observed are also consistent with those observed in southwest coastal British Columbia (Ritchie et al., 2016; Morin et al., 2018).

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“…While not used extensively in the Pacific Northwest (c.f. [ 23 ]), KDE and composite KDE have been successfully used to determine the underlying structure of radiocarbon datasets [ 18 – 22 , 24 , 25 , 71 ].…”

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Assessing population dynamics in the Central Salish Sea, Pacific Northwest Coast of North America

Rorabaugh

2023

PLoS ONE

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Climate Change and Indigenous Subsistence in the Thompson River Watershed (British Columbia) in the Late Holocene

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Cultural Disruption Suggested by Dates of Late Holocene Burials, Southwestern Cape, South Africa

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Divergent population dynamics in the middle to late Holocene lower Fraser valley and mid-Fraser canyon, British Columbia

Cited by 3 publications

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Assessing population dynamics in the Central Salish Sea, Pacific Northwest Coast of North America

Assessing population dynamics in the Central Salish Sea, Pacific Northwest Coast of North America

Climate Change and Indigenous Subsistence in the Thompson River Watershed (British Columbia) in the Late Holocene

Cultural Disruption Suggested by Dates of Late Holocene Burials, Southwestern Cape, South Africa

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