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The North-Central cultural dichotomy on the Northwest Coast of North America: its evolution as suggested by wet-site basketry and wooden fish-hooks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Dale R. Croes
Dale R. Croes*
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Department of Anthropology, South Puget Sound Community College (Instructor), Washington State University (Research Faculty), 2011 Mottman Road SW, Olympia WA 98512, USA. E-mail:Croes_Dale/[email protected]
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Where there are wet sites and organic artefacts are preserved, one can study artefacts of perishable materials which may by their nature offer more information than do lithic assemblages. On the US/Canadian Northwest Coast, with its series of celebrated wet sites, basketry and wooden fish-hooks survive so often that a decisive issue in the region's regional pattern can be explored this way — with archaeo-experimental help from unlucky inhabitants of the local aquarium!

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Antiquity , Volume 71 , Issue 273 , September 1997 , pp. 594 - 615
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1997

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