Prehistory of the Northwest Coast

R.G. Matson is a Professor of Archaeology Emeritus, U.B.C., who has been investigating Northwest Coast archaeology since 1972. His interests include the U.S. Northwest and interior B.C. archaeology. Gary Coupland is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto. He has been conducting archaeological research on the Northwest Coast of North America for almost two decades. His main theoretical area of interest is complex hunter-gatherers, for which the Northwest Coast is famous. He is particularly interested in the development of ranked societies in the region and the insights that may be gained into this development from the study of households and communities.

• 1: The Evolution of Cultural Complexity on the Northwest Coast; 2: The Northwest Coast Culture Area; 3: History of Archaeological Research; 4: The Initial Colonization of the Northwest Coast; 5: The Emergence of Distinctive; 6: The Development of Cultural Complexity; 7: The Achievement of Cultural Complexity; 8: Continuation of the Developed Northwest Coast Pattern; 9: Review of Developments

"An authoritative summary of the archaeology of the North American northwest coast... An exhaustive history of previous excavations and a thorough review of past interpretations... This book should be required reading for general and specialized courses in prehistory and the ethnographic present... The work should be acquired for any collection with extensive holdings on Native Americans." CHOICE