Sacred Power and Seasonal Settlement on the Central Northwest Coast

The form of hunter-gatherer settlement in the vicinity of Namu on the central coast of British Columbia (Fig. 10.1) is consistent with the structure and constraint of environmental and social factors that Binford (1980) and Wiessner (1982) identified as important on the basis of their ethnographic observations. The long-term history of the settlement system. in contrast, appears to have developed according to a unique pattern of cultural …