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Toquaht Archaeological Project The Toquaht are a Nuu-chah-nulth First Nation whose traditional territories encompass western Barkley Sound, near Ucluelet, B.C. Interest in recovering and managing heritage resources led to collaborative research, the Toquaht Archaeological Project, with fieldwork between 1991 and 1996. All work was co-directed by Alan McMillan (Douglas College and Simon Fraser University) and Denis St. Claire (Coast Heritage Consultants). Fieldwork included detailed ...

Tseshaht Archaeological Project This archaeological research project in the Broken Group Islands of Barkley Sound, western Vancouver Island, is jointly sponsored by the Tseshaht First Nation and Parks Canada. These islands, now within Pacific Rim National Park Reserve, are the traditional homeland of the Tseshaht, a Nuu-chah-nulth group now resident at Port Alberni, B.C. Fieldwork in 1999, 2000 and 2001 focused on Benson Island, one of the outer Broken Group, where the ancient villa ...

Back to the list of research papers. Confronting Chaos: Deciphering Activity Areas on a Multi-component Interior Plateau Site. by Anouk Tryon No matter how neat our site maps, no matter how sensible our tables, histograms, and photographs appear, things are usually more complicated than we generally like to admit. This is something we have learned to expect of contemporary human society; it is also often the case with the archaeological record. One example of this is evident at a mu ...