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Title

A Greenville burial ground : human remains and mortuary elements in British Columbia Coast prehistory / Jerome S. Cybulski ; with contributions by Darlene Balkwill, Gregory S. Young and Patricia D. Sutherland.

Author

Cybulski, Jerome S.

Publication

Hull, Quebec : Canadian Museum of Civilization, c1992.

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Additional Authors

• Archaeological Survey of Canada.
• Balkwill, Darlene McCuaig.
• Canadian Museum of Civilization.
• Sutherland, Patricia D.
• Young, Gregory S.

Description

xv, 251 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Summary

Description and analysis of a midden excavation in the modern Nisga'a village in west-central British Columbia.

Series Statement

• Mercury series, 0316-1854
• Paper / Archaeological Survey of Canada, 0317-2244 ; no. 146

Uniform Title

• Mercury series.
• Paper (Archaeological Survey of Canada) no. 146

Alternative Title

Human remains and mortuary elements in British Columbia Coast prehistory

Subject

• Anthropometry
• Archaeology
• British Columbia > Antiquities
• Excavations (Archaeology) > Greenville
• Funeral Rites > ethnology
• Greenville (B.C.) > Antiquities
• Human remains (Archaeology) > Greenville
• Niska Indians > Antiquities
• Niska Indians > Funeral customs and rites

Note

• Abstract in English and French.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references: p. 173-189.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

I. Introduction -- II. Excavations and Chronology -- III. Mortuary Practices -- IV. Faunal Remains / Darlene Balkwill and Jerome S. Cybulski -- V. Human Biology -- VI. Paleopathology -- VII. Summary and Discussion -- App. A. Individual Greenville Human Remains -- App. B. Cultural Artifacts in the Greenville site -- App. C. Human Remains from Other British Columbia Coast Archaeological Sites.

ISBN

066014008X

LCCN

cn^92090931^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library