Eric Mclay
Biographic Data
| ID | 684067 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eric Mclay |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eric |
| FAMILY NAME | Mclay |
| SIGNATURE | MCLAY E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Victoria |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Terraforming and monumentality as long-term social practice in the Salish Sea region of the Northwest Coast of North America
The archaeological record of hunter-gatherer-fishers in the southern Gulf Islands of the Northwest Coast provides evidence of large-scale construction of shell mounds and ridges, houses and villages, production features, defensive earthworks and burial mounds and cairns. Landscapes were terraformed – meaning anthropogenically constructed, modified and maintained – in service of multiple ends. These practices had significant implications for the c…
The Battle at Maple Bay: The Dynamics of Coast Salish Political Organization Through Oral Histories
In the mid-nineteenth century, an alliance of Coast Salish groups engaged in a maritime canoe battle against the Kwakwaka'wakw Lekwiltok at Maple Bay on Vancouver Island in the Pacific Northwest Coast. This study reflects on the multivocality of twenty-one Coast Salish accounts of the historic battle to consider how independent groups recount a period of broad alliance and unification. These oral narratives commemorate this historic event as a mo…
The Battle at Maple Bay: The Dynamics of Coast Salish Political Organization Through Oral Histories
In the mid-nineteenth century, an alliance of Coast Salish groups engaged in a maritime canoe battle against the Kwakwaka'wakw Lekwiltok at Maple Bay on Vancouver Island in the Pacific Northwest Coast. This study reflects on the multivocality of twenty-one Coast Salish accounts of the historic battle to consider how independent groups recount a period of broad alliance and unification. These oral narratives commemorate this historic event as a mo…
The Battle at Maple Bay: The Dynamics of Coast Salish Political Organization Through Oral Histories
In the mid-nineteenth century, an alliance of Coast Salish groups engaged in a maritime canoe battle against the Kwakwaka'wakw Lekwiltok at Maple Bay on Vancouver Island in the Pacific Northwest Coast. This study reflects on the multivocality of twenty-one Coast Salish accounts of the historic battle to consider how independent groups recount a period of broad alliance and unification. These oral narratives commemorate this historic event as a mo…
Terraforming and monumentality as long-term social practice in the Salish Sea region of the Northwest Coast of North America
The archaeological record of hunter-gatherer-fishers in the southern Gulf Islands of the Northwest Coast provides evidence of large-scale construction of shell mounds and ridges, houses and villages, production features, defensive earthworks and burial mounds and cairns. Landscapes were terraformed – meaning anthropogenically constructed, modified and maintained – in service of multiple ends. These practices had significant implications for the c…
Archaeology (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · History (2 works) · Indigenous Studies and Ecology (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Alliance (1 works) · Archaeological record (1 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (1 works)