Edited by Brian Hayden, Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University

Keatley Creek is a world heritage quality site with unusually large housepits, good preservation, clear architectural features and evidence for complex socioeconomic organization. Work done here has been at the center of theoretical and methodological advances in archaeological studies of complex hunter/gatherers. Volume I: Taphonomy includes thorough documentation of dating, climate, soils, and site formation processes. Botanical, faunal and lithic remains are examined to see what they reveal about the formation of different types of strata (floors, roofs, middens). Stone sources are identified and the lithic assemblage is analyzed from a design theory perspective emphasizing both artifacts and debitage.

Contributors:

• Brian Hayden, Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University
• Andrew Henry
• Rolf W. Mathewes
• Marlow G. Pellatt
• Pierre Friele
• Dale Donovan
• Paul Goldberg
• Dana Lepofsky
• Karla D. Kusmer
• Mike Rousseau
• Nora Franco
• Jim Spafford
• William C. Prentiss
• Edward F. Bakewell