@article {9714,
	title = {Relict Shorelines and Shell Middens of the Dundas Island Archipelago},
	journal = {Canadian Journal of Archaeology},
	volume = {35},
	year = {2011},
	pages = {086-116},
	abstract = {<p>The Dundas Island Archipelago of north coastal British Columbia lies close to a sea level \&ldquo;hinge\&rdquo; 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.</p>},
	author = {Duncan McLaren and Andrew Martindale and Daryl Fedje and Quentin Mackie}
}
