Richard J Hebda

Biographic Data

ID	3480060
NAME	Richard J Hebda
GIVEN NAMES	Richard J
FAMILY NAME	Hebda
SIGNATURE	HEBDA R J
AFFILIATIONS	Royal British Columbia Museum
ORCID	0009-0003-5361-1227
VERIFIED	Yes
TOTAL WORKS	16
TOTAL CITATIONS	46
WORKS AS AUTHOR	16
WORKS AS EDITOR	0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR	1980
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR	2025
H-INDEX	3

Late Pleistocene vegetation and climate history of northern Vancouver Island, Canada
Open AccessChristopher F G Hebda, Richard J Hebda et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2025Cited by: 1References: 3
Postglacial evolution and spatial differentiation of seasonal temperate rainforest in western Canada
Open AccessKendrick J Brown, Anne Birgitta Nielsen et al.ARTICLEThe Holocene2008References: 7
Surface samples from Vancouver Island, Canada, were used to assess the relationship between discrete seasonal temperate rainforest (STR) plant communities and their corresponding pollen signatures. Pollen from ten sediment cores was further used to evaluate the postglacial development of these communities. Principal components analysis (PCA) of the surface data revealed the distinctiveness of the modern pollen rain, with samples from the Coastal …
Paleoecological analyses of lake sediments reveal prehistoric human impact on forests at anthony island Unesco World Heritage Site, Queen Charlotte Islands (Haida Gwaii), Canada
Open AccessTerri Lacourse, Rolf W Mathewes et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Research2007
Pollen and plant macrofossil analyses of lake sediments from Anthony Island in the southern Queen Charlotte Islands (Haida Gwaii), British Columbia, reveal 1800 yr of relatively stable temperate rainforest vegetation. Cupressaceae (cedar) pollen percentages and accumulation rates decline about 1000 cal yr BP, coincident with occupation of the island by Haida peoples, who use Thuja plicata (western red cedar) almost exclusively for house construct…
Museums, Climate Change and Sustainability
Richard J HebdaARTICLEMuseum Management and Curatorship2007Cited by: 3References: 5
One of the most important series of reports (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2007) ever prepared for the global community paints a sobering picture of the future. This most conservative a
Late Wisconsinan Port Eliza Cave deposits and their implications for human coastal migration, Vancouver Island, Canada
Open AccessM Al‐Suwaidi, Brent Ward et al.ARTICLEGeoarchaeology2006Cited by: 1References: 14
Sediments of Port Eliza Cave provide a record of the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) on Vancouver Island that has important implications for human migration along the debated coastal migration route. Lithofacies changes from nonglacial diamict to glacial laminated silt and clay and till, then a return to nonglacial conditions with oxidized clay, colluvial block beds, and speleothems, along with radiocarbon and U/Th dates, define glacial–nonglacial tra…
Kwäday Dän Ts'ìnchì, the first ancient body of a man from a North American glacier
Open AccessJames H Dickson, Michael Richards et al.ARTICLEThe Holocene2004Cited by: 3References: 3
We report on scientific analyses of the only well-preserved ancient human body ever recovered from a North American glacier. The body was found high in the mountains of northwest British Columbia at about 80 km from the nearest point of the strongly indented coast of southern Alaska. The geographical location suggests that the young man, aged about 20 years, could have lived either on the mild coast or in the continental interior. Preliminary env…
Prehispanic changes in wetland topography and their implications to past and future wetland agriculture at Laguna Mandinga, Veracruz, Mexico
Open AccessMaija Heimo, Alfred H Siemens et al.ARTICLEAgriculture and Human Values2004Cited by: 6References: 8
Ancient Fires on Southern Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Kendrick J Brown, Richard J HebdaARTICLEEnvironmental Archaeology2002Cited by: 1References: 8
Charcoal records were examined from seven sediment cores and two stratigraphic sections on southern Vancouver Island, Canada. Charcoal influx and climate trend regressions were established using high order polynomial functions. During the late-glacial (ca. 13,000–10,000 ybp), variations in the charcoal record suggest that fires likely responded to changes in fuel availability and climate. The high incidence of early-Holocene (ca. 10,000–7,000ybp)…
Dams” on the Candelaria
Open AccessAlfred H Siemens, José Angel Soler Graham et al.ARTICLEAncient Mesoamerica2002Cited by: 5
Much has been learned from the basin of the Candelaria River, Campeche, Mexico: the fabric of a densely settled pre-Historic landscape, including impressive ceremonial centers; the logistics of an ancient entrepôt; the process of exploitation of dyewood and chicle in historic times; as well as the doubtful results of the mid-twentieth-century colonization of an “empty” forested basin. It also yielded the first evidence of more or less intensive p…
Diverse Nonmarine Biota from the Whidbey Formation (Sangamonian) at Point Wilson, Washington
Open AccessPaul F Karrow, Adolph Ceska et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Research1995
Previously undescribed plant and animal fossils from the Whidbey Formation represent two environments. An upper sand unit contains predominantly terrestrial molluscs (4 taxa), insects, and a vole (cf. Phenacomys), whereas a lower clay unit contains ostracodes (9 taxa), freshwater molluscs (6 taxa), insects (9 taxa), freshwater plant seeds (6 taxa), and fish (cf. Gasterosteus : stickleback). These taxa are compatible with interglacial climatic con…
Stratigraphy, depositional environment, and cultural significance of holocene sediments in patterned wetlands of central Veracruz, Mexico
Open AccessRichard J Hebda, Alfred H Siemens et al.ARTICLEGeoarchaeology1991Cited by: 2References: 1
The coastal wetlands of Veracruz State, Mexico contain many areas of rectilinearly patterned ground. These are the remains of Prehispanic agricultural complexes. Reconnaissance‐level stratigraphic studies were carried out in one such wetland area, the “San Juan Basin,” in order to reconstruct the local environmental history. Basal, well‐sorted fine sand, which underlies the basin, was likely deposited in the intertidal and beach zones as marine w…
Stratigraphy and Paleoecology of Pleistocene Interstadial Sediments, Central British Columbia
Open AccessJohn J Clague, Richard J Hebda et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Research1990
Two exposures of organic-rich interstadial sediments in central British Columbia provide information on middle Wisconsinan environments and climates near the center of the region subsequently covered by the late Wisconsinan Cordilleran Ice Sheet. Interstadial sediments at Bullion Pit overlie drift of early Wisconsinan or older age and underlie thick drift of late Wisconsinan age. Alluvium (or colluvium) and peat were deposited on the floor of the…
Contemporary use of bark for medicine by two salishan native elders of Southeast Vancouver Island, Canada
Open AccessNancy J Turner, Richard J HebdaARTICLEJournal of Ethnopharmacology1990
Geoarchaeology in the Northwest
Open AccessRichard J HebdaARTICLEGeoarchaeology1987
Caracol, Belize
Paul F Healy, John D H Lambert et al.ARTICLEJournal of Field Archaeology1983Cited by: 24
Recent studies of ancient Maya settlement and demography indicate population densities exceeding those achievable using traditional swidden farming techniques, and suggest that more intensive farming methodologies such as terracing were employed. This paper describes recent archaeological investigations at the major Maya ceremonial center of Caracol, Cayo District, Belize, a poorly known region of the southern Maya lowlands. Research concentrated…
Maya medicinal plants of San Jose Succotz, Belize
Open AccessThor Arnason, T J Arnason et al.ARTICLEJournal of Ethnopharmacology1980

Caracol, Belize
Paul F Healy, John D H Lambert et al.ARTICLEJournal of Field Archaeology1983Cited by: 24
Recent studies of ancient Maya settlement and demography indicate population densities exceeding those achievable using traditional swidden farming techniques, and suggest that more intensive farming methodologies such as terracing were employed. This paper describes recent archaeological investigations at the major Maya ceremonial center of Caracol, Cayo District, Belize, a poorly known region of the southern Maya lowlands. Research concentrated…
Prehispanic changes in wetland topography and their implications to past and future wetland agriculture at Laguna Mandinga, Veracruz, Mexico
Open AccessMaija Heimo, Alfred H Siemens et al.ARTICLEAgriculture and Human Values2004Cited by: 6References: 8
Dams” on the Candelaria
Open AccessAlfred H Siemens, José Angel Soler Graham et al.ARTICLEAncient Mesoamerica2002Cited by: 5
Much has been learned from the basin of the Candelaria River, Campeche, Mexico: the fabric of a densely settled pre-Historic landscape, including impressive ceremonial centers; the logistics of an ancient entrepôt; the process of exploitation of dyewood and chicle in historic times; as well as the doubtful results of the mid-twentieth-century colonization of an “empty” forested basin. It also yielded the first evidence of more or less intensive p…
Museums, Climate Change and Sustainability
Richard J HebdaARTICLEMuseum Management and Curatorship2007Cited by: 3References: 5
One of the most important series of reports (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2007) ever prepared for the global community paints a sobering picture of the future. This most conservative a
Kwäday Dän Ts'ìnchì, the first ancient body of a man from a North American glacier
Open AccessJames H Dickson, Michael Richards et al.ARTICLEThe Holocene2004Cited by: 3References: 3
We report on scientific analyses of the only well-preserved ancient human body ever recovered from a North American glacier. The body was found high in the mountains of northwest British Columbia at about 80 km from the nearest point of the strongly indented coast of southern Alaska. The geographical location suggests that the young man, aged about 20 years, could have lived either on the mild coast or in the continental interior. Preliminary env…
Stratigraphy, depositional environment, and cultural significance of holocene sediments in patterned wetlands of central Veracruz, Mexico
Open AccessRichard J Hebda, Alfred H Siemens et al.ARTICLEGeoarchaeology1991Cited by: 2References: 1
The coastal wetlands of Veracruz State, Mexico contain many areas of rectilinearly patterned ground. These are the remains of Prehispanic agricultural complexes. Reconnaissance‐level stratigraphic studies were carried out in one such wetland area, the “San Juan Basin,” in order to reconstruct the local environmental history. Basal, well‐sorted fine sand, which underlies the basin, was likely deposited in the intertidal and beach zones as marine w…
Late Pleistocene vegetation and climate history of northern Vancouver Island, Canada
Open AccessChristopher F G Hebda, Richard J Hebda et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2025Cited by: 1References: 3
Late Wisconsinan Port Eliza Cave deposits and their implications for human coastal migration, Vancouver Island, Canada
Open AccessM Al‐Suwaidi, Brent Ward et al.ARTICLEGeoarchaeology2006Cited by: 1References: 14
Sediments of Port Eliza Cave provide a record of the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) on Vancouver Island that has important implications for human migration along the debated coastal migration route. Lithofacies changes from nonglacial diamict to glacial laminated silt and clay and till, then a return to nonglacial conditions with oxidized clay, colluvial block beds, and speleothems, along with radiocarbon and U/Th dates, define glacial–nonglacial tra…
Ancient Fires on Southern Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Kendrick J Brown, Richard J HebdaARTICLEEnvironmental Archaeology2002Cited by: 1References: 8
Charcoal records were examined from seven sediment cores and two stratigraphic sections on southern Vancouver Island, Canada. Charcoal influx and climate trend regressions were established using high order polynomial functions. During the late-glacial (ca. 13,000–10,000 ybp), variations in the charcoal record suggest that fires likely responded to changes in fuel availability and climate. The high incidence of early-Holocene (ca. 10,000–7,000ybp)…

Maya medicinal plants of San Jose Succotz, Belize
Open AccessThor Arnason, T J Arnason et al.ARTICLEJournal of Ethnopharmacology1980
Caracol, Belize
Paul F Healy, John D H Lambert et al.ARTICLEJournal of Field Archaeology1983Cited by: 24
Recent studies of ancient Maya settlement and demography indicate population densities exceeding those achievable using traditional swidden farming techniques, and suggest that more intensive farming methodologies such as terracing were employed. This paper describes recent archaeological investigations at the major Maya ceremonial center of Caracol, Cayo District, Belize, a poorly known region of the southern Maya lowlands. Research concentrated…
Geoarchaeology in the Northwest
Open AccessRichard J HebdaARTICLEGeoarchaeology1987
Stratigraphy and Paleoecology of Pleistocene Interstadial Sediments, Central British Columbia
Open AccessJohn J Clague, Richard J Hebda et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Research1990
Two exposures of organic-rich interstadial sediments in central British Columbia provide information on middle Wisconsinan environments and climates near the center of the region subsequently covered by the late Wisconsinan Cordilleran Ice Sheet. Interstadial sediments at Bullion Pit overlie drift of early Wisconsinan or older age and underlie thick drift of late Wisconsinan age. Alluvium (or colluvium) and peat were deposited on the floor of the…
Contemporary use of bark for medicine by two salishan native elders of Southeast Vancouver Island, Canada
Open AccessNancy J Turner, Richard J HebdaARTICLEJournal of Ethnopharmacology1990
Stratigraphy, depositional environment, and cultural significance of holocene sediments in patterned wetlands of central Veracruz, Mexico
Open AccessRichard J Hebda, Alfred H Siemens et al.ARTICLEGeoarchaeology1991Cited by: 2References: 1
The coastal wetlands of Veracruz State, Mexico contain many areas of rectilinearly patterned ground. These are the remains of Prehispanic agricultural complexes. Reconnaissance‐level stratigraphic studies were carried out in one such wetland area, the “San Juan Basin,” in order to reconstruct the local environmental history. Basal, well‐sorted fine sand, which underlies the basin, was likely deposited in the intertidal and beach zones as marine w…
Diverse Nonmarine Biota from the Whidbey Formation (Sangamonian) at Point Wilson, Washington
Open AccessPaul F Karrow, Adolph Ceska et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Research1995
Previously undescribed plant and animal fossils from the Whidbey Formation represent two environments. An upper sand unit contains predominantly terrestrial molluscs (4 taxa), insects, and a vole (cf. Phenacomys), whereas a lower clay unit contains ostracodes (9 taxa), freshwater molluscs (6 taxa), insects (9 taxa), freshwater plant seeds (6 taxa), and fish (cf. Gasterosteus : stickleback). These taxa are compatible with interglacial climatic con…
Ancient Fires on Southern Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Kendrick J Brown, Richard J HebdaARTICLEEnvironmental Archaeology2002Cited by: 1References: 8
Charcoal records were examined from seven sediment cores and two stratigraphic sections on southern Vancouver Island, Canada. Charcoal influx and climate trend regressions were established using high order polynomial functions. During the late-glacial (ca. 13,000–10,000 ybp), variations in the charcoal record suggest that fires likely responded to changes in fuel availability and climate. The high incidence of early-Holocene (ca. 10,000–7,000ybp)…
Dams” on the Candelaria
Open AccessAlfred H Siemens, José Angel Soler Graham et al.ARTICLEAncient Mesoamerica2002Cited by: 5
Much has been learned from the basin of the Candelaria River, Campeche, Mexico: the fabric of a densely settled pre-Historic landscape, including impressive ceremonial centers; the logistics of an ancient entrepôt; the process of exploitation of dyewood and chicle in historic times; as well as the doubtful results of the mid-twentieth-century colonization of an “empty” forested basin. It also yielded the first evidence of more or less intensive p…
Kwäday Dän Ts'ìnchì, the first ancient body of a man from a North American glacier
Open AccessJames H Dickson, Michael Richards et al.ARTICLEThe Holocene2004Cited by: 3References: 3
We report on scientific analyses of the only well-preserved ancient human body ever recovered from a North American glacier. The body was found high in the mountains of northwest British Columbia at about 80 km from the nearest point of the strongly indented coast of southern Alaska. The geographical location suggests that the young man, aged about 20 years, could have lived either on the mild coast or in the continental interior. Preliminary env…
Prehispanic changes in wetland topography and their implications to past and future wetland agriculture at Laguna Mandinga, Veracruz, Mexico
Open AccessMaija Heimo, Alfred H Siemens et al.ARTICLEAgriculture and Human Values2004Cited by: 6References: 8
Late Wisconsinan Port Eliza Cave deposits and their implications for human coastal migration, Vancouver Island, Canada
Open AccessM Al‐Suwaidi, Brent Ward et al.ARTICLEGeoarchaeology2006Cited by: 1References: 14
Sediments of Port Eliza Cave provide a record of the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) on Vancouver Island that has important implications for human migration along the debated coastal migration route. Lithofacies changes from nonglacial diamict to glacial laminated silt and clay and till, then a return to nonglacial conditions with oxidized clay, colluvial block beds, and speleothems, along with radiocarbon and U/Th dates, define glacial–nonglacial tra…
Paleoecological analyses of lake sediments reveal prehistoric human impact on forests at anthony island Unesco World Heritage Site, Queen Charlotte Islands (Haida Gwaii), Canada
Open AccessTerri Lacourse, Rolf W Mathewes et al.ARTICLEQuaternary Research2007
Pollen and plant macrofossil analyses of lake sediments from Anthony Island in the southern Queen Charlotte Islands (Haida Gwaii), British Columbia, reveal 1800 yr of relatively stable temperate rainforest vegetation. Cupressaceae (cedar) pollen percentages and accumulation rates decline about 1000 cal yr BP, coincident with occupation of the island by Haida peoples, who use Thuja plicata (western red cedar) almost exclusively for house construct…
Museums, Climate Change and Sustainability
Richard J HebdaARTICLEMuseum Management and Curatorship2007Cited by: 3References: 5
One of the most important series of reports (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2007) ever prepared for the global community paints a sobering picture of the future. This most conservative a
Postglacial evolution and spatial differentiation of seasonal temperate rainforest in western Canada
Open AccessKendrick J Brown, Anne Birgitta Nielsen et al.ARTICLEThe Holocene2008References: 7
Surface samples from Vancouver Island, Canada, were used to assess the relationship between discrete seasonal temperate rainforest (STR) plant communities and their corresponding pollen signatures. Pollen from ten sediment cores was further used to evaluate the postglacial development of these communities. Principal components analysis (PCA) of the surface data revealed the distinctiveness of the modern pollen rain, with samples from the Coastal …
Late Pleistocene vegetation and climate history of northern Vancouver Island, Canada
Open AccessChristopher F G Hebda, Richard J Hebda et al.ARTICLEQuaternary International2025Cited by: 1References: 3