@article {9683,
	title = {Settlement and Shell-Bearing Site Diversity in the Sechelt Inlet System, British Columbia},
	journal = {Canadian Journal of Archaeology},
	volume = {38},
	year = {2014},
	pages = {280-328},
	abstract = {<p>This paper presents results from a survey of Salmon and Narrows Inlets, in the traditional territory of the sh{\'\i}sh{\'a}lh First Nation on the Sunshine Coast, British Columbia. It focuses on shell-bearing habitation sites. Detailed constituent analysis of auger samples provides a means of exploring the types of human action and post-depositional processes that shaped these sites and forming hypotheses regarding settlement and subsistence. Habitation sites are concentrated around limited productive resource patches and strategic access points that would have allowed people to monitor and control movement through the inlets. Preliminary indicators suggest a settlement pattern that was at times similar to that recorded ethnographically for the sh{\'\i}sh{\'a}lh, with people moving from large winter aggregations on the outer coast to smaller dispersed camps in the inlets beginning in the spring and continuing through to the fall. This study contributes an analysis of a particular landscape that can be added to the growing understanding of the diverse \&lsquo;mosaic\&rsquo; of settlement and land use history across the Northwest Coast.</p>},
	author = {Bryn Letham}
}
