<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Duncan McLaren</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Andrew Martindale</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Daryl Fedje</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Quentin Mackie</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Relict Shorelines and Shell Middens of the Dundas Island Archipelago</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Canadian Journal of Archaeology</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2011</style></year></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">35</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">086-116</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The Dundas Island Archipelago
of north coastal British Columbia lies
close to a sea level “hinge” between two
regions with very different sea level histories
during the Pleistocene/Holocene transition:
as much as a 200 m vertical shoreline
regression to the east and a 150 m vertical
shoreline transgression to the west. Based
on diatom identifications from lake-basin
cores, combined with supporting relative
sea level indicators, we developed a sea level
curve for the Dundas Islands which shows
a slow regression of shorelines from +13 m
down to modern levels over the last 12,000
years. This sea level history was used to aid
survey for archaeological sites dating to the
pre-5000 B.P. period. Test excavation and
sampling of these sites showed occupation
along the regressive shoreline beginning as
early as 9690 B.P. The elevations, stratigraphy,
and radiocarbon ages of the archaeological
materials are consistent with the relative sea
level curve based on palaeo-environmental
data points. This research methodology has
yielded the first early Holocene archaeological
data from Coast Tsimshian territory with
potential to push the archaeological record
back into the Pleistocene epoch.</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1</style></issue></record></records></xml>