The 2012 excavation of a single housepit (Housepit 54) at the Bridge River Village site
(EeR14) offers the unique opportunity to look at lithic organization and techinological strategies
during the Fur Trade era in the Middle Fraser Canyon. The main goal of this research is to
understand how the winter occupation of Housepit 54 may have affected the lithic technological
strategies carried out at Bride River Village. As a winter pithouse, lithic raw material sources
would be inaccessible during the three months of occupation. The hypothesis of this thesis is
structured with a theory of risk framework in order to understand what strategies may have been
implemented in order to minimize the risk of exhausting raw material over the winter. This
thesis will also seek to explore the ethnographic record in relation to the archaeological record in
order to extrapolate a model of lithic organization. The hypothesis proposes that certain
strategies such as bipolar reduction and high production intensity would be applied in order to
conserve raw material over the winter. Tools size, expedient reuse and longer use-lives are also
factors anticipated from the hypothesis. These factors are highly testable variables that will
provide a deeper understanding of lithic technological strategies, but also, will provide insight
into the activities being carried out over the winter occupation at Bridge River Village during the Fur Trade era.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:MONTANA/oai:etd.lib.umt.edu:etd-02052014-141705 |
| Date | 07 February 2014 |
| Creators | French, Kelly |
| Contributors | Dr. Anna Prentiss, Pei-Lin Yu, Dr. Sarah Halvorson |
| Publisher | The University of Montana |
| Source Sets | University of Montana Missoula |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.umt.edu/theses/available/etd-02052014-141705/ |
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