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Comment on Cannon and Yang: Early Storage and Sedentism on the Pacific Northwest Coast

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Gregory G. Monks  and
Trevor J. Orchard
Gregory G. Monks
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, R3T 5V5 (monks@cc.umanitoba.ca)
Trevor J. Orchard
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5S 2S2 (trevor.orchard@utoronto.ca)
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Abstract

Cannon and Yang (2006) argue that a sedentary winter village based on stored pink and chum salmon began at Namu approximately 7000 B. P. In contrast, we argue that (a) available data support neither a sedentary winter village by that date nor a subsistence focus on stored pink and chum salmon; (b) the timing and ubiquity of salmon exploitation and storage was not as the authors assert; instead, stable, long-term adaptations focused on taxa other than salmon are found elsewhere on the Northwest Coast; and (c) seasonality estimation based on growth increments is a valid methodology.

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Resumen

Cannon and Yang (2006), discuten, que el asentamiento sedentario de la villa invernal, establecido en el almacenamiento de las variedades de salmón rosado y del compinche comenzó en Namu hace casi 7,000 anos. En contraste, nosotros argumentamos que: a) la información disponible no apoya la existência de una villa invernal en Namu alrededor de ese periodo, ni tampoco corrobora un nivel de subsistência establecido en el almacenamiento de las variedades de salmón rosado y del compinche; b) que el tiempo y la omnipresencia de la explotación del salmón y de su almacenamiento no sucedió tal como los autores lo afirman. Al contrario, indícios de que la percibida adaptación estable radicò en la presencia de la variedad escorpina antes que de el salmón, se encuentran en otros lugares en la costa Noroeste de Norteamérica; y c) que la estimación del crecimiento incremental basado en la estacionalidad es una valida metodología.

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American Antiquity , Volume 76 , Issue 3 , July 2011 , pp. 573 - 584
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 2011

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