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1993 UPDATE
THE PREHISTORY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
Knut R. Fladmark
"In reference to the historic native people of the Plateau, the Kutenai language has been assigned to an 'Almosan' language stock, in a recent reclassification of North American native languages by Joseph Greenberg. Almosan also includes the many Algonquian languages of central and eastern North America, as well as the Mosan language family of the Northwest, which comprises the Salishan, Nuchanulth and Kwakiutl languages. In the Plateau Middle Period, the Landels Site near Ashcroft in the Thompson River valley has recently been radiocarbon dated back to 7,600 B.P. Like the Drynoch Slide site it also possesses a pre-Mazama ash occupation characterized by microblades, but with a few preserved bone fragments, including sheep, deer and rabbit." (M. Rousseau et al. 1991)
"The age of the earliest Lithic Stage occupation of the Queen Charlotte Islands sites has been pushed back to ca. 8,400 B.P., with the recent discovery and radiocarbon dating of a site in the South Moresby National Park Reserve area." (D. Fedje, pers. comm. 1992)
"The earliest Lithic Stage occupation at Namu, extending back to ca. 10,000 B.P., is now considered similar to contemporary south coast assemblages, lacking microblades and dominated by leaf-shaped projectile points and pebble tools. A microblade technology, presumably of northern origin, only shows up at Namu after 8,500 B.P." (R. Carlson, pers. comm. 1993).
"Regarding the Late Developmental period of south coastal prehistory, the 500-600 year old Scowlitz Site recently excavated in the lower Fraser Valley contains numerous earthen mounds, some of a fairly substantial size (i.e. 3-4 m. length, 2-3 m width, and up to 1 meter in height), covering human burials in stone box-cists." (M. Blake, pers. comm. 1992)
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