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- Title
- Perspectives on the organization of lithic technology at the Punchaw Lake site---FiRs-1.
- Contributors
- Keli Watson (author), Farid Rahemtulla (Thesis advisor), University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution)
- Abstract
- The Punchaw lake village site, FiRs-1, is in the north central interior of British Columbia, a rarely researched region in terms of the archaeological record. A small area of the site was excavated in 1973 the finds of this excavation are the subject of this analysis. The lithic assemblage is classified and a technological organization approach is used with design theory to attempt to determine what activities were occurring at this site and how they fit into past lifeways. A community-based approach is attempted by bringing the finds to the Nazko First Nation, whose claimed traditional territory encompasses Punchaw Lake. Their knowledge and stories regarding these artifacts and this region are woven in to bring their voice and perspective to the interpretations. This enriched analysis determined that this village and its diverse tool assemblage could have been the centre of a complex subsistence strategy that ranged far across the landscape to best utilize the available resources. --P. ii.
- Discipline
- Interdisciplinary Studies
- Content Model
- info:fedora/ir:thesisCModel
- Date added
- 2011
- Title
- Tool stones from the Punchaw Lake Village site (FiRs-1), Nechako Plateau, British Columbia, Canada.
- Contributors
- W. S. Lorenz Bruechert (author), Farid Rahemtulla (Thesis advisor), University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution)
- Abstract
- Progress in petrography and chemical characterization of igneous lithic material and artifacts have been used to infer culture history, land use patterns, and potential exchange networks across British Columbia in recent years. This thesis examines the petrographic and geochemical characteristics of igneous flake samples collected from the Punchaw Lake Village site (FiRs-1), located west of Quesnel, British Columbia. The flakes are primarily composed of trachydacite and dacite of one or more unknown provenances. The primary objective of this study was to determine the possible sources of these igneous materials used in the production of the artifact assemblage. Three analytical techniques were employed to determine the physical composition of the specimens: (1) petrographic descriptions of the macroscopic and microscopic characteristics (2) whole sample chemistry (major elements by inductively coupled plasma emission spectrometry (ICP-ES] and (3) trace and rare earth elements by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry [ICP-MS]. The geochemical data were subjected to multidimensional scaling and hierarchical cluster analysis to aid the interpretations of the results. Results indicate that the lithic sample from Punchaw Lake Village site originates from more than one rock type, suggesting that the site inhabitants may have engaged in exchange and/or movement throughout the Nechako Plateau. --P. ii.
- Discipline
- Interdisciplinary Studies
- Content Model
- info:fedora/ir:thesisCModel
- Date added
- 2012