@article {9563,
	title = {Anthropogenic Fire and Landscape Management on Valdes Island, Southwestern BC},
	journal = {Canadian Journal of Archaeology},
	volume = {38},
	year = {2014},
	pages = {250-279},
	abstract = {<p>Precontact peoples of the Salish Sea inhabited and exploited environments of resource abundance. Recent research suggests that the production of a diversity of animal and plants, rather than a single resource (i.e., salmon), supported the complex lifeways of Northwest Coast peoples. While salmon played a critical role, it is important to consider multiple lines of evidence to properly characterize subsistence practices, intensification, and, ultimately, social change. One important and understudied area is the intensification and management of terrestrial, particularly plant, resources. This paper presents data relating to the use of fire as a tool to shape landscapes and increase their productivity at the Shingle Point site (DgRv-002) on Valdes Island, southwestern British Columbia. Charcoal records from this location are used to reconstruct burning practices and explore the role of anthropogenic fire as a mechanism of social change over the last five millennia. These methods and data provide a means to rethink and expand investigations into the emergence of social complexity in the Salish Sea.</p>},
	author = {Kelly M. Derr}
}
