Coastal Developmental Stage Artifacts (5,500 years ago to European contact).
Left: pecked-stone hand maul, south coast, used for driving wedges and hammering stakes (2,500-1,500 years old); top, left to right: antler wedge for splitting wood (this type of artifact persisted from late Lithic Stage times to European contact); ground-slate fish knife, south coast (2,500 years ago to European contact); bone awl, for work in hides and basketry; (middle) small bone sewing needle; (top right) steatite bowl with geometric rim decoration, south coast (ca. 2,500-1,500 years ago). Bottom, left to right: plain bone spindle whorl, south coast (1,500 years ago to European contact -- see slide 21); mussel-shell adze-blade (all areas, last 3,500 years); ground nephrite adze blade, south coast (last 3,500 years). This last piece is 7 cm long.
Courtesy: Simon Fraser University Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
