Abstract

Household archaeology has been a major focus at the McNichol Creek site in Prince Rupert harbour since 1990. This prehistoric village dating to approximately 1500 BP is believed to have expressed all the salient features of the Developed Northwest Coast Pattern including pronounced social inequality and hereditary wealth and rank. Several research goals at the McNichol Creek village have focussed exclusively on deciphering such features, on both interhouse and intrahouse levels. This paper focuses on interhouse aspects; specifically, the spatial organization of artifacts and faunal remains recovered from the excavation of house K during the summer of 1999. This evidence may provide information on social inequality and rank, as well as the economic status of the household in general.