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- The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean
- The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean
- The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors to Volume I
- Frontispiece
- General Editor’s Introduction
- Preface to Volume I
- Part I Rethinking the Pacific
- Part II Humans and the Natural World in the Pacific Ocean
- Part III Deep Time: Sources for the Ancient History of the Pacific
- Part IV The Initial Colonization of the Pacific
- Part V The Evolution of Pacific Communities
- 22 Towards a Unified Theory for Pacific Colonization, Exchange, and Social Complexity
- 23 The Evolution of China’s Political Economy of the Sea, 960 ce–1900 ce
- 24 China and the Sea in Literature and (Mis)Perception, 1644–1839
- 25 Pacific History Viewed from Eastern Indonesia: The Eastern Archipelago of Southeast Asia and the Sea in the Early Modern Period 1400–1830s
- 26 The Maritime Cultures of the Northwest Pacific Seaboard of the Americas
- 27 Mesoamerican–South American Pre-Columbian Pacific Contacts: Evidence, Objects, and Traditions, 1500 bce–1532 ce
- Part VI Europe’s Maritime Expansion into the Pacific
- References to Volume I
- Index
26 - The Maritime Cultures of the Northwest Pacific Seaboard of the Americas
from Part V - The Evolution of Pacific Communities
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 November 2022
- The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean
- The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean
- The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors to Volume I
- Frontispiece
- General Editor’s Introduction
- Preface to Volume I
- Part I Rethinking the Pacific
- Part II Humans and the Natural World in the Pacific Ocean
- Part III Deep Time: Sources for the Ancient History of the Pacific
- Part IV The Initial Colonization of the Pacific
- Part V The Evolution of Pacific Communities
- 22 Towards a Unified Theory for Pacific Colonization, Exchange, and Social Complexity
- 23 The Evolution of China’s Political Economy of the Sea, 960 ce–1900 ce
- 24 China and the Sea in Literature and (Mis)Perception, 1644–1839
- 25 Pacific History Viewed from Eastern Indonesia: The Eastern Archipelago of Southeast Asia and the Sea in the Early Modern Period 1400–1830s
- 26 The Maritime Cultures of the Northwest Pacific Seaboard of the Americas
- 27 Mesoamerican–South American Pre-Columbian Pacific Contacts: Evidence, Objects, and Traditions, 1500 bce–1532 ce
- Part VI Europe’s Maritime Expansion into the Pacific
- References to Volume I
- Index
Summary
The Indigenous people who occupied (and continue to occupy) the northwest Pacific coastline of the Americas inhabit an anthropological culture area known as the ‘Northwest Coast’. This chapter draws from the archaeological record to expand upon the portrait of Northwest Coast societies developed from historical and ethnographic sources. The historical and ethnographic sources, of course, encapsulate some of the experiences of contact and colonialism over the last 250 years. But ‘pre-contact times’ cannot be reconstructed or known for certain, and material cultures, lifeways, population sizes and distributions, and the scale of social networks have all been transformed since the first European contacts. The Northwest Coast societies documented in the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries are not simulacra of pre-contact societies, although archaeologists inevitably deploy them as such.
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- The Cambridge History of the Pacific Ocean , pp. 593 - 612Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023