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Author : Fedje, D.
Date : 2006.
Title : Landscape evolution and human adaptation in Haida Gwaii during the Pleistocene - Holocene transition.
Publication : Fostering Connections Between Protected Areas & Research. 1st Annual British Columbia Protected Areas Research Forum (BCPARF) Conference. December 4-6, 2006. Royal Roads University, Victoria, British Columbia.
Issue : Progamme and Abstracts Volume
Page(s) : 32.
Abstract
The complex interplay between geography, fauna, flora and humans in the dynamic early post-glacial landscape of Haida Gwaii is being chronicled by an interdisciplinary team. This work includes the inventory and evaluation of archaeological and paleoecological sites on a variety of features of the past and current landcape of the archipelago. Recent initiatives include archaeological excavations at sites on relict shorelines both above and below the modern shore, exploration and testing of karst caves and paleolimnological analysis of sediment cores. To date the human record for Haida Gwaii has been pushed back to at least 10,600 radiocarbon years ago, the paleontological record to ca. 14,000 years ago and the paleolimnological record to at least 15,000 years ago. Through this time there have been huge changes to the nature of the natural environment and, at least in the later part, significant changes in human adaptation.
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