2012 Aboriginal Studies - UBC Press

ABORIGINAL & MÉTIS HISTORY
People of the Middle Fraser Canyon
An Archaeological History
Anna Marie Prentiss and Ian Kuijt
ANNA MARIE PRENTISS is a
professor in the Department of
Anthropology at the University
of Montana. IAN KUIJT is a
professor in the Department of
Anthropology at the University
of Notre Dame.
May 2012
978-0-7748-2168-1 HC $90.00
January 2013
978-0-7748-2169-8 PB $32.95
288 pages, 6 x 9 "
40 photographs, 15 maps,
25 drawings
Aboriginal Studies , History,
Anthropology , Archaeology ,
BC Studies
The Middle Fraser Canyon contains some of the
most important archaeological sites in British
Columbia, including the remains of ancient
villages that supported hundreds, if not thousands,
of people. How and why did these villages
come into being? Why were they abandoned? In
search of answers to these questions, Prentiss
and Kuijt take readers on a voyage of discovery
into the ancient history of the St’át’imc or Upper
Lillooet, a people whose struggles and successes
are brought to vivid life through photographs,
artistic and fi ctionalized reconstructions of
life in the villages, and discussions of evidence
from archaeological surveys and excavations.
CONTENTS
1 Introduction
2 Before the Villages: Middle Period Occupation
of the Plateau
3 Setting the Regional Stage
4 The Rise of the Middle Fraser Villages
5 Making a Living: Food in the Middle Fraser
Villages
6 Living Together: Social Organization in the
Middle Fraser Villages
7 The Abandonment and the Aftermath
8 A Broad Perspective: Looking Back, Looking
Forward
Appendix: Linguistics / Leora Bar-El
Notes on Sources; References; Index
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