<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>47</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">ZITA, Paul</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Hard Times on the Northwest Coast: Deer Phalange Marrow Extraction at Namu B.C. / Périodes de vaches maigres sur la côte nord-ouest : on</style></title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1997</style></year></dates><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Saskatoon</style></pub-location><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Northwest Coast subsistence economies are often thought to have been relatively rich and stable, but evidence from Namu, B.C. suggests the local subsistence economy experienced a decline in the main economic resource, salmon, over time (Cannon 1991). Further evidence (Cannon 1995) has shown the use of marginal resources to compensate for the shortage of oil-rich salmon. Results of a study of fracture patterns in deer phalanges supports these earlier conclusions, and shows an increase in the utilization of deer marrow by humans during periods of relative food shortage. The results also suggest that examination of deer phalanges at other Northwest Coast sites may be a useful method for identifying periods of food stress. If the pattern found at Namu is widespread on the Northwest Coast, it may suggest that development of permanent settlements was a means of establishing territorial control over marine areas with more prosperous food resources.</style></abstract></record></records></xml>