Estimating size-at-harvest from Indigenous archaeological clamshell assemblages in Coastal British Columbia

• Main Authors: Dylan Hillis (Author), Kristina M. Barclay (Author), Erin Foster (Author), Hannah M. Kobluk (Author), Taylor Vollman (Author), Anne K. Salomon (Author), Chris T. Darimont (Author), Iain McKechnie (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing, 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Shellfish have supported Indigenous lifeways on the Pacific Coast of North America for millennia. Despite the ubiquity of clamshells in archaeological sites, shell size measurements are rarely reported due to a lack of applicable basis for generating size estimates from fragmentary remains. We prese...