Morgan Ritchie
Biographic Data
| ID | 3736596 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Morgan Ritchie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Morgan |
| FAMILY NAME | Ritchie |
| SIGNATURE | RITCHIE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Indigenous Adaptations to Salmon Run Volatility in the Salish Sea during the Late Holocene
More than a million fish bones have been analyzed from the faunal assemblages in shell middens that mark the location of ancestral Indigenous settlements on the shores of the central reaches of the Salish Sea. Salmon bones, which account for 38% of the identifiable fish remains, are most abundant close to the main migration route of Fraser River sockeye and pink salmon. Salmon bone abundance in the “Marpole” cultural phase from 2400 to 1200 cal B…
Soil phytoliths as indicators of Sts'ailes (Coast Salish) stewardship legacies and history at Lhemqwó
Modeling Coast Salish landscape/seascape use and territory with GIS
In this paper we use Least Cost Analysis (LCA) and GIS to model site catchments for villages from two Coast Salish tribes—Tsleil-Waututh and Sts'ailes. Here, we use Tobler's Hiker Function to model travel by land and develop a cost raster for travel by water in canoes. This model is then used to describe the site catchments for a number of villages. Comparison of the LCA model with recorded resource use patterns and modern hiking and canoeing tim…
Introducing SourceXplorer, an open-source statistical tool for guided lithic sourcing
Embedded Household Specialization
A biface workspace dating to ca. cal a.d. 100–400 was identified during recent excavation at the Sts’ailes-Coast Salish village of YāçkEtEl, on the Harrison River on the Northwest Coast of North America. Based on a range of analyses, we suggest that a specialist crafted large bifaces produced as prestigious objects for exchange within a ceremonial interaction sphere and smaller, more functional bifaces for household and local purposes. The worksp…
Social Networks and Stratagems of Nineteenth-Century Coast Salish Leaders
During the socially transformative mid-nineteenth century in the Salish Sea region of the Northwest Coast, a number of influential leaders emerged within Indigenous tribal groups. They played a significant role in reshaping the social geography of the region, blending emergent religious, commercial, and military bases for authority with more conventional Coast Salish strategies of patronage and generosity. The authors examine the lives and social…
Coyote Broke the Dams
This article examines the social and political implications of the geographically widespread and cross-cultural oral narratives related to the releases of salmon into the rivers of the Pacific Northwest through the destruction of weir-dams. Key themes in these narratives provide insights into indigenous concepts of reciprocity and authority, which in turn reveal dimensions of social organization and intercommunity interactions from a new perspect…
From local to regional and back again
Assessing continuity in the ancestral territory of the Tsleil-Waututh-Coast Salish, southwest British Columbia, Canada
Combustion features from short-lived intermittent occupation at a 1300-year-old Coast Salish rock shelter, British Columbia
The Archaeology of Camas Production and Exchange on the Northwest Coast
Edible root resources were widely cultivated and consumed by First Peoples throughout North America from the early to mid-Holocene to historic times. In recent decades, archaeobotanists, ethnobotanists, archaeologists, and traditional knowledge-holders have explored and clarified many aspects of root food ecology, production, and exchange. This paper focuses on camas, considered a cultural keystone species across much of western North America bec…
Beyond culture history
The Archaeology of Camas Production and Exchange on the Northwest Coast
Edible root resources were widely cultivated and consumed by First Peoples throughout North America from the early to mid-Holocene to historic times. In recent decades, archaeobotanists, ethnobotanists, archaeologists, and traditional knowledge-holders have explored and clarified many aspects of root food ecology, production, and exchange. This paper focuses on camas, considered a cultural keystone species across much of western North America bec…
Coyote Broke the Dams
This article examines the social and political implications of the geographically widespread and cross-cultural oral narratives related to the releases of salmon into the rivers of the Pacific Northwest through the destruction of weir-dams. Key themes in these narratives provide insights into indigenous concepts of reciprocity and authority, which in turn reveal dimensions of social organization and intercommunity interactions from a new perspect…
From local to regional and back again
Social Networks and Stratagems of Nineteenth-Century Coast Salish Leaders
During the socially transformative mid-nineteenth century in the Salish Sea region of the Northwest Coast, a number of influential leaders emerged within Indigenous tribal groups. They played a significant role in reshaping the social geography of the region, blending emergent religious, commercial, and military bases for authority with more conventional Coast Salish strategies of patronage and generosity. The authors examine the lives and social…
Introducing SourceXplorer, an open-source statistical tool for guided lithic sourcing
Embedded Household Specialization
A biface workspace dating to ca. cal a.d. 100–400 was identified during recent excavation at the Sts’ailes-Coast Salish village of YāçkEtEl, on the Harrison River on the Northwest Coast of North America. Based on a range of analyses, we suggest that a specialist crafted large bifaces produced as prestigious objects for exchange within a ceremonial interaction sphere and smaller, more functional bifaces for household and local purposes. The worksp…
Combustion features from short-lived intermittent occupation at a 1300-year-old Coast Salish rock shelter, British Columbia
Beyond culture history
The Archaeology of Camas Production and Exchange on the Northwest Coast
Edible root resources were widely cultivated and consumed by First Peoples throughout North America from the early to mid-Holocene to historic times. In recent decades, archaeobotanists, ethnobotanists, archaeologists, and traditional knowledge-holders have explored and clarified many aspects of root food ecology, production, and exchange. This paper focuses on camas, considered a cultural keystone species across much of western North America bec…
Assessing continuity in the ancestral territory of the Tsleil-Waututh-Coast Salish, southwest British Columbia, Canada
Combustion features from short-lived intermittent occupation at a 1300-year-old Coast Salish rock shelter, British Columbia
Coyote Broke the Dams
This article examines the social and political implications of the geographically widespread and cross-cultural oral narratives related to the releases of salmon into the rivers of the Pacific Northwest through the destruction of weir-dams. Key themes in these narratives provide insights into indigenous concepts of reciprocity and authority, which in turn reveal dimensions of social organization and intercommunity interactions from a new perspect…
From local to regional and back again
Social Networks and Stratagems of Nineteenth-Century Coast Salish Leaders
During the socially transformative mid-nineteenth century in the Salish Sea region of the Northwest Coast, a number of influential leaders emerged within Indigenous tribal groups. They played a significant role in reshaping the social geography of the region, blending emergent religious, commercial, and military bases for authority with more conventional Coast Salish strategies of patronage and generosity. The authors examine the lives and social…
Introducing SourceXplorer, an open-source statistical tool for guided lithic sourcing
Embedded Household Specialization
A biface workspace dating to ca. cal a.d. 100–400 was identified during recent excavation at the Sts’ailes-Coast Salish village of YāçkEtEl, on the Harrison River on the Northwest Coast of North America. Based on a range of analyses, we suggest that a specialist crafted large bifaces produced as prestigious objects for exchange within a ceremonial interaction sphere and smaller, more functional bifaces for household and local purposes. The worksp…
Modeling Coast Salish landscape/seascape use and territory with GIS
In this paper we use Least Cost Analysis (LCA) and GIS to model site catchments for villages from two Coast Salish tribes—Tsleil-Waututh and Sts'ailes. Here, we use Tobler's Hiker Function to model travel by land and develop a cost raster for travel by water in canoes. This model is then used to describe the site catchments for a number of villages. Comparison of the LCA model with recorded resource use patterns and modern hiking and canoeing tim…
Indigenous Adaptations to Salmon Run Volatility in the Salish Sea during the Late Holocene
More than a million fish bones have been analyzed from the faunal assemblages in shell middens that mark the location of ancestral Indigenous settlements on the shores of the central reaches of the Salish Sea. Salmon bones, which account for 38% of the identifiable fish remains, are most abundant close to the main migration route of Fraser River sockeye and pink salmon. Salmon bone abundance in the “Marpole” cultural phase from 2400 to 1200 cal B…
Soil phytoliths as indicators of Sts'ailes (Coast Salish) stewardship legacies and history at Lhemqwó
Geography (10 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (9 works) · Archaeology (7 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (7 works) · Ecology (5 works) · History (4 works) · Indigenous (4 works) · Radiocarbon dating (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Geology (3 works)