Central Coast SalishFraser ValleySxwóxwiymelh Katz Sitemap interpretationMaps and mapping are fundamental to archaeology. Archaeologists sometimes fail to recognize that the maps we use and create are fraught, like material culture, with interpretive complexities. These complexities arise from the fact...
Patterns of palaeoglacial lake evolution and moraines suggest an active ice margin systematically retreating northwestward back towards the Coast Mountains, consistent with the pattern of eskers, ice-marginal channels, and reconstructed glaci-isostatic tilt from palaeolake shorelines. Lake effects likely...
yearly variations in particular source areas and the local influence of sediments carried by several tributaries of the lower Fraser River that flow out of the Coast Mountains.The X-ray and chemical analyses indicated that there was a valid basis for continued mapping of the Pitt soil series sepa...
The Fraser River meets the ocean near Vancouver in the Strait of Georgia, a semi-enclosed sea on the southwest coast of British Columbia. This is a region of considerable human interest because it is home to 10% of Canada's population, and the Port of Vancouver is the largest and busiest...