gly’s Reviews > Once upon This Land: Archaeology in British Columbia and the Stories It Tells > Status Update

"As is evident in their art, Indigenous peoples also had phenomenal woodworking technology... trees were culturally modified. People peeled bark to weave mats, hats, and garments, and removed planks or blocks of wood to carve sculptures such as masks, doing so in such a way that the trees continued living." (p. 72)

“excavation suggested [Triquet island] was occupied up to 14,000 YA… it provided solid evidence that people had occupied coastal regions during the ice age, and it singled out Triquet as one of the oldest reliably dated archaeological sites in the Americas.” (p. 43)

Caves in Haida Gwaii: “They found the remains of dogs dating to 13,000 YA, the oldest evidence of domestic dogs in the Americas.” (p. 44)

“… archaeology, above all, is a form of storytelling. and as with any story, it all depends on the perspective of the storyteller.” (p. 10)

“Many people believe that cultural evolution follows a standard pathway, often known as the theory or model of unilinear cultural evolution, but the idea… has been widely debunked… What works best for one community may not work so well for another. ” (p. 13)