Bryn Letham
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 197463 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Bryn Letham |
| NOMBRES | Bryn |
| APELLIDO | Letham |
| FIRMA | LETHAM B |
| AFILIACIONES | Simon Fraser University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1592-8405 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 60 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2009 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
The Ts a lwadi Site
Late Pleistocene vegetation and climate history of northern Vancouver Island, Canada
Perspectives on a Post-White Sands Coast
In light of new dates associated with the White Sands human footprints in New Mexico that suggest humans were in North America south of continental ice sheets during (or before) the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), I discuss the implications for the late Pleistocene archaeology of the Northwest Coast – the presumed “Pacific Coastal Route” for entry into the continent. I argue that we can and should employ state-of-the-art methods to push our paleoenvi…
Late Pleistocene Faunal Assemblages from Karst Cave Settings on Northern Vancouver Island, Canada
We present the results of our investigations in karst caves on northern Vancouver Island. This work focuses on late Pleistocene faunal remains and potential archaeological deposits. Our analyses of faunal remains from these caves reveal that a variety of animals have inhabited the region since the Last Glacial Maximum. Pleistocene taxa recovered include black-tailed deer (Odocoileus hemionus), black bear (Ursus americanus), mountain goat (Oreamno…
Wil Luunda ‘Waada aks (Where the Waters Meet)
The geomorphological dynamism of estuarine landscapes provides challenges to archaeologists trying to understand the long-term, intertwined histories of people and place in these ecotones. This is especially the case in regions like the Northwest Coast of North America, where the location of the interface between river and coast has shifted in tandem with changing relative sea level (RSL) positions in the late Pleistocene through the Holocene. We…
The Moore Islands Project
We explore the long-term environmental and human history of a small outer coast archipelago on the Northwest Coast in western Canada. Using relative sea-level change, we reconstruct ancient landscapes to design archaeological surveys that document a rich archaeological record spanning at least 11 000 years and demonstrate the cultural centrality of this geographically marginal landscape
Endowment, investment, and the transforming coast
Combustion features from short-lived intermittent occupation at a 1300-year-old Coast Salish rock shelter, British Columbia
Archaeological Survey of Dynamic Coastal Landscapes and Paleoshorelines
We present and test a predictive archaeological survey model that targets early Holocene paleoshorelines in the Prince Rupert Harbour area using LiDAR bare earth digital terrain models and a 15,000-year reconstructed history of relative sea level change. Despite a century of archaeological research in the study area, no sites dating earlier than 6000 cal b.p. had been identified prior to our research. Our field survey identified three early Holoc…
Urbanism in Northern Tsimshian archaeology
We consider the provocative idea of whether urbanism as a condition or process is visible in Northern Tsimshian archaeology. We define the condition of urbanism through four traits, each of which we associate with measurable variables. We explore changes in these across the study area in 100-year time bins over 6000 years. We also consider urbanism as a process that includes five kinds of relations. We consider these through six chronological sta…
Assessing the Scale and Pace of Large Shell-Bearing Site Occupation in the Prince Rupert Harbour Area, British Columbia
Methodological advancements in geoarchaeology and spatial and chronological modeling are opening new avenues to interpreting large coastal shell-bearing sites. We document the developmental histories of two such sites around Prince Rupert Harbour, Canada, using systematic percussion coring, intensive radiocarbon dating, and 3D surface mapping with Total Station and LiDAR. We also re-analyze a third site (Boardwalk/GbTo-31) excavated and radiocarb…
The role of small villages in Northern Tsimshian territory from oral and archaeological records
Small villages have been central to progressive models of hunter-gatherer-fisher complexity on the Northwest Coast as a stage in the narrative of increasingly nonegalitarian social relations. We argue that Tsimshian settlement history is more complicated. We examine settlement and chronological data for 66 village sites in the Tsimshian area, 22 of which we define as small. Small villages were present in the area as early as 6500 years ago, but t…
A Wealth of Beads
Archaeologists working in the Salish Sea (Strait of Georgia and Puget Sound) region of the Pacific Northwest have unearthed human burials and non-mortuary features dated to 4000-3500 cal B.P. containing tens and even hundreds of thousands of stone and shell disc beads. Several sites are reported here, including burials recently excavated from site DjRw-14 located in the territory of the shíshálh Nation. We argue that the disc beads constituted an…
Mapping of subsurface shell midden components through percussion coring
Mapping of subsurface shell midden components through percussion coring
A Wealth of Beads
Archaeologists working in the Salish Sea (Strait of Georgia and Puget Sound) region of the Pacific Northwest have unearthed human burials and non-mortuary features dated to 4000-3500 cal B.P. containing tens and even hundreds of thousands of stone and shell disc beads. Several sites are reported here, including burials recently excavated from site DjRw-14 located in the territory of the shíshálh Nation. We argue that the disc beads constituted an…
The role of small villages in Northern Tsimshian territory from oral and archaeological records
Small villages have been central to progressive models of hunter-gatherer-fisher complexity on the Northwest Coast as a stage in the narrative of increasingly nonegalitarian social relations. We argue that Tsimshian settlement history is more complicated. We examine settlement and chronological data for 66 village sites in the Tsimshian area, 22 of which we define as small. Small villages were present in the area as early as 6500 years ago, but t…
Endowment, investment, and the transforming coast
Assessing the Scale and Pace of Large Shell-Bearing Site Occupation in the Prince Rupert Harbour Area, British Columbia
Methodological advancements in geoarchaeology and spatial and chronological modeling are opening new avenues to interpreting large coastal shell-bearing sites. We document the developmental histories of two such sites around Prince Rupert Harbour, Canada, using systematic percussion coring, intensive radiocarbon dating, and 3D surface mapping with Total Station and LiDAR. We also re-analyze a third site (Boardwalk/GbTo-31) excavated and radiocarb…
Late Pleistocene Faunal Assemblages from Karst Cave Settings on Northern Vancouver Island, Canada
We present the results of our investigations in karst caves on northern Vancouver Island. This work focuses on late Pleistocene faunal remains and potential archaeological deposits. Our analyses of faunal remains from these caves reveal that a variety of animals have inhabited the region since the Last Glacial Maximum. Pleistocene taxa recovered include black-tailed deer (Odocoileus hemionus), black bear (Ursus americanus), mountain goat (Oreamno…
Combustion features from short-lived intermittent occupation at a 1300-year-old Coast Salish rock shelter, British Columbia
Archaeological Survey of Dynamic Coastal Landscapes and Paleoshorelines
We present and test a predictive archaeological survey model that targets early Holocene paleoshorelines in the Prince Rupert Harbour area using LiDAR bare earth digital terrain models and a 15,000-year reconstructed history of relative sea level change. Despite a century of archaeological research in the study area, no sites dating earlier than 6000 cal b.p. had been identified prior to our research. Our field survey identified three early Holoc…
The Ts a lwadi Site
Late Pleistocene vegetation and climate history of northern Vancouver Island, Canada
Wil Luunda ‘Waada aks (Where the Waters Meet)
The geomorphological dynamism of estuarine landscapes provides challenges to archaeologists trying to understand the long-term, intertwined histories of people and place in these ecotones. This is especially the case in regions like the Northwest Coast of North America, where the location of the interface between river and coast has shifted in tandem with changing relative sea level (RSL) positions in the late Pleistocene through the Holocene. We…
Mapping of subsurface shell midden components through percussion coring
A Wealth of Beads
Archaeologists working in the Salish Sea (Strait of Georgia and Puget Sound) region of the Pacific Northwest have unearthed human burials and non-mortuary features dated to 4000-3500 cal B.P. containing tens and even hundreds of thousands of stone and shell disc beads. Several sites are reported here, including burials recently excavated from site DjRw-14 located in the territory of the shíshálh Nation. We argue that the disc beads constituted an…
Urbanism in Northern Tsimshian archaeology
We consider the provocative idea of whether urbanism as a condition or process is visible in Northern Tsimshian archaeology. We define the condition of urbanism through four traits, each of which we associate with measurable variables. We explore changes in these across the study area in 100-year time bins over 6000 years. We also consider urbanism as a process that includes five kinds of relations. We consider these through six chronological sta…
Assessing the Scale and Pace of Large Shell-Bearing Site Occupation in the Prince Rupert Harbour Area, British Columbia
Methodological advancements in geoarchaeology and spatial and chronological modeling are opening new avenues to interpreting large coastal shell-bearing sites. We document the developmental histories of two such sites around Prince Rupert Harbour, Canada, using systematic percussion coring, intensive radiocarbon dating, and 3D surface mapping with Total Station and LiDAR. We also re-analyze a third site (Boardwalk/GbTo-31) excavated and radiocarb…
The role of small villages in Northern Tsimshian territory from oral and archaeological records
Small villages have been central to progressive models of hunter-gatherer-fisher complexity on the Northwest Coast as a stage in the narrative of increasingly nonegalitarian social relations. We argue that Tsimshian settlement history is more complicated. We examine settlement and chronological data for 66 village sites in the Tsimshian area, 22 of which we define as small. Small villages were present in the area as early as 6500 years ago, but t…
Combustion features from short-lived intermittent occupation at a 1300-year-old Coast Salish rock shelter, British Columbia
Archaeological Survey of Dynamic Coastal Landscapes and Paleoshorelines
We present and test a predictive archaeological survey model that targets early Holocene paleoshorelines in the Prince Rupert Harbour area using LiDAR bare earth digital terrain models and a 15,000-year reconstructed history of relative sea level change. Despite a century of archaeological research in the study area, no sites dating earlier than 6000 cal b.p. had been identified prior to our research. Our field survey identified three early Holoc…
Endowment, investment, and the transforming coast
The Moore Islands Project
We explore the long-term environmental and human history of a small outer coast archipelago on the Northwest Coast in western Canada. Using relative sea-level change, we reconstruct ancient landscapes to design archaeological surveys that document a rich archaeological record spanning at least 11 000 years and demonstrate the cultural centrality of this geographically marginal landscape
Late Pleistocene Faunal Assemblages from Karst Cave Settings on Northern Vancouver Island, Canada
We present the results of our investigations in karst caves on northern Vancouver Island. This work focuses on late Pleistocene faunal remains and potential archaeological deposits. Our analyses of faunal remains from these caves reveal that a variety of animals have inhabited the region since the Last Glacial Maximum. Pleistocene taxa recovered include black-tailed deer (Odocoileus hemionus), black bear (Ursus americanus), mountain goat (Oreamno…
Wil Luunda ‘Waada aks (Where the Waters Meet)
The geomorphological dynamism of estuarine landscapes provides challenges to archaeologists trying to understand the long-term, intertwined histories of people and place in these ecotones. This is especially the case in regions like the Northwest Coast of North America, where the location of the interface between river and coast has shifted in tandem with changing relative sea level (RSL) positions in the late Pleistocene through the Holocene. We…
Perspectives on a Post-White Sands Coast
In light of new dates associated with the White Sands human footprints in New Mexico that suggest humans were in North America south of continental ice sheets during (or before) the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), I discuss the implications for the late Pleistocene archaeology of the Northwest Coast – the presumed “Pacific Coastal Route” for entry into the continent. I argue that we can and should employ state-of-the-art methods to push our paleoenvi…
The Ts a lwadi Site
Late Pleistocene vegetation and climate history of northern Vancouver Island, Canada
Geography (13 obras) · Archaeology (12 obras) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (12 obras) · Geology (10 obras) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (9 obras) · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (7 obras) · Oceanography (6 obras) · Ecology (4 obras) · Holocene (4 obras) · Maritime and Coastal Archaeology (4 obras)