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Fieldwork Picture of the Day 2

Daryl watching the tide flow at Kilgii Gwaay. Another fieldwork picture form the archives. This shows Daryl watching the tide come into our units at Kilgii Gwaay (map) – this is Operation 8a and 8b, if...

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Fieldwork Picture of the Day 7

Excavations at Collison Bay, 2006 This is another intertidal dig – the Collison Bay site, which shares a lot of similarities with Kilgii Gwaay.  Both sites date to about 9450 C14 years ago and contain...

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dSpace: Elroy White (Xanius) on Fishtraps

FbTa 59, a possible clam garden on the central coast. Source: Elroy White / Xanius M.A. thesis. I’ve only met Elroy once or twice but he seems like a sharp guy and I was looking forward to reading his...

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dSpace: Caldwell on Comox Harbour Fishtraps

Chevron-shaped fishtraps in Comox Harbour. From Caldwell 2008. The University of Manitoba is in on the dSpace trend.  The most notable thesis I found there was Megan Caldwell’s excellent analysis of...

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Annotation: Kilgii Gwaay excavations.

Excavation at Kilgii Gwaay, southern Haida Gwaii. I’ve found that individual powerpoint slides can be saved as JPG images, complete with their annotations.  Since I have a lot of these I may share...

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Photo Essay on the Qwu?gwes Site

EDIT February 22, 2010: Pictures removed after communication from Lee Rentz (see comments). Dale Croes has been doing great work for years on wet site archaeology, most notably a long association with...

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Annotation: Collison Bay

Annotation of the Collison Bay night-time, low tide excavations. The Collison Bay site in Haida Gwaii  posed some unusual challenges, some natural and others of our own making.  The site is found in...

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Intertidal Footprints

6,000 year old human footprint from intertidal sediments near Liverpool. Source: http://www.eyes-and-ears.co.uk I know of three sites in the world where human footprints more than 5,000 years old are...

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More on Comox Harbour Fishtraps

Fishtrap stakes delineating chevron patterns in the intertidal zone of Comox Harbour. Photo credit: Greene 2010. I posted once before some time ago on the incredible fishtrap complexes in Comox Harbour...

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ASBC Victoria – Public Talk Tue Oct 18: Daryl Fedje on Gulf Islands Archaeology

Parks Canada - UVIC Archaeological Project in the Intertidal Zone, 2010. Next up for the local (Victoria) branch of the Archaeological Society of B.C. is a Tuesday, October 18th talk by Daryl Fedje of...

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ASBC Victoria talk: Tuesday May 20, Michelle Puckett on Quadra Is. Clam Gardens

Clam garden in southern Haida Gwaii.  Note the rock wall forming the flat terrace feature. Transforming the Beach, Transforming our Thinking: Ancient Clam Gardens of Northern Quadra Island, BC....

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ASBC Victoria Talk: Dr. Duncan McLaren on Late Pleistocene Intertidal...

This months Archaeological Society of BC monthly lecture in Victoria should be excellent.  Sorry for the short notice but it is tomorrow, Tuesday 18th, at 7.30, at UVIC.  Details below or on this PDF....

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