Abstract

Archaeological investigations by the SCES-SFU Field School in Kamloops, B.C., between 1991 and 1997, have identified and tested over 60 upper terrace sites as part of a study of long-term land use. Interpretation of this archaeological record has been constrained by the absence of diagnostics at many small lithic scatters or by mixed assemblages at the larger, multiple component sites. However, excavation in 1997 at one of these larger sites, EeRb 144, revealed a relatively undisturbed cultural sequence extending from the recent past through at least the Middle Period (4000 - 7500 BP). This paper focuses on the artifact assemblages from the Plateau Horizon (2400 - 1200 BP), and introduces a new artifact type.