Abstract

Approximately 200 culturally modified tree (CMT) sites have recently been recorded in the central interior of B.C. during archaeological impact assessments of forest industry operations. Together, these sites represent somewhere between 8,000 and 12,000 individual CMTs. The most common type of CMT is the pine cambium stripping scar, representing about 98% of all the CMTs recorded. This is probably the most common type of CMT in the province. Spatial patterning in the distribution of these pine CMTs provides a regional scale picture of aboriginal land use over the period 1800-1950.