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Peavies, pickaroons, hookaroons and skid tongs

Double-bitted axes, available by the case. It’s pretty common to run into historic industrial equipment when doing archaeological work in BC, especially logging equipment.  The Vancouver City archives...

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McLennan & McFeely 1908-1914 Catalogue (update)

Railroad wheelbarrows from McLennan and McFeely catalogue. I posted previously about this excellent resource which the City of Vancouver Archives has put online: the McLennan and McFeely catalogue of...

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Yuungnaqpiallerput: Yup’ik Science and Survival

Inflating the stomach of a beluga whale. Source: Yupikscience.org “Yuungnaqpiallerput (The Way We Genuinely Live): Masterworks of Yup’ik Science and Survival” is a fascinating and informative (and...

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Anchor Stones

Duwamish composite stone anchor. Source: UW. I was talking the other day about how under-represented organic technology is in archaeology generally, and especially on the Northwest Coast, where the old...

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Bead-rich human burials in shíshálh territory

Examples of typical NW Coast archaeological beads, from B. Thom, reference below. There have been some exciting finds on the Sunshine Coast (northeastern Strait of Georgia) in shíshálh First Nation...

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Brainstorming beads

Shell beads from DjRw-14. Large grid is one centimetre, small is one millimetre.  Note the interior diameters of less than one millimetre.   Picture courtesy of Dr. Terry Clark, CMC. Click to enlarge....

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Millennia Research’s miniature engraving tools from Prince Rupert

Millennia Research is one of the longest established and most respected consulting archaeologist firms in British Columbia, not least because they have an occasional blog.  They’re doing some really...

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