Mercury Series; Archaeology 152
640 pages; 51 illustrations; 26 photographs; 5 in colour; 22 tables; 2 maps; 6.75x9.5"; paper
English The purpose of this volume and its two sister volumes is to provide a wide readership with information on the history of the native people prior to the dislocating incursions of Europeans into the territory now known as Canada. These books are based upon archaeological evidence as there are no pre-European written records and they describe the only history that exists for more than 12,000 years that the ancestors of the native people occupied Canada prior to its colonization by Europeans. Volume II examines developments across Canada such as the gradual replacement of the earlier spear-thrower by the bow and arrow. Pottery was introduced from 3000 years ago, the communal hunting of bison became important and large pit house villages occupied the salmon rivers of the Canadian Plateau.