Abstract

This paper will present preliminary results from two intertidal sites in southern-most Haida Gwaii and place them in the context of a period of rapid marine transgression. Waterlogged deposits in a test at one of these sites produced a small assemblage of fauna including bear, caribou, bird, sea mammal, fish, and shellfish in association with abundant stone tools. A date of ca. 9,500 BP was obtained on spirally fractured caribou bone from these deposits.