Conference proceeding
Locarno Beach at Hoko River, Olympic Peninsula, Washington: Wakashan, Salishan, Chimakuan or Who?
Ethnicity and Culture
Annual Conference of the Archaeological Association of the University of Calgary, 18
1987
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7273/000006240
Abstract
Over the last ten years of Hoko River site excavation and analysis, we have approached the question of who, ethnically, the site inhabitants may have represented as early as 3000 years ago. Two main, albeit contradictory, lines of evidence emerge. First, the lit.hie component from the 3000 to 2400 B.P. campsite area has been defined as representing the Locarno Beach Cultural Type (Mitchell 1982), a "phase or culture type" more commonly represented by sites in the eastern Gulf of Georgia/Puget Sound region at this time period. And second, the abunda:pt Hoko River basketry and cordage artefacts from the associated waterlogged site areas reveal styles most similar to outer West Coast types, particularly the Ozette Village site ( 45CA24) ( Croes 1977, 1980a-c). These styles are in contrast to Gulf of Georgia/Puget Sound basketry and cordage styles over the past 3000 years. Therefore, do (1) styles of lithic artefacts, defining widespread "phases", or (2) style-continuity trends of basketry artefacts better reflect ancestral ethnicity? Also, if one aspect of artefact style analysis better represents ethnicity, then what does the other aspect represent? In this paper I will ( a) describe the Hoko River site complex, (b) place it in a broader regional "phase sequence" context, ( c) review comparisons of basketry and cordage styles on a coastwide basis, and ( d) attempt, through economic decision-making modeling, to best explain why "phases" crosscut regional basketry and cordage style continuity trends.
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- Title
- Locarno Beach at Hoko River, Olympic Peninsula, Washington: Wakashan, Salishan, Chimakuan or Who?
- Creators
- Dale R. Croes (Author) - Washington State University, Anthropology, Department of
- Contributors
- Reginald Auger (Editor)Margaret F. Glass (Editor)Scott MacEachern (Editor)Peter H. McCartney (Editor)
- Publication Details
- Ethnicity and Culture
- Conference
- Annual Conference of the Archaeological Association of the University of Calgary, 18
- Academic Unit
- Anthropology, Department of
- Publisher
- University of Calgary; Calgary, Alberta
- Identifiers
- 99901087341001842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding