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Cultural Collapses in the Northwest: A Reply to Ian Kuijt

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Brian Hayden  and
June Ryder
Brian Hayden
Affiliation:
Archaeology Department, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
June Ryder
Affiliation:
J.M. Ryder Associates Terrain Analysis Inc., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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Abstract

We previously suggested that the abandonment of large housepit villages along the Mid-Fraser River ca. 1200 B.P. was due to landslides that decimated salmon stocks and the main subsistence staples of the villages. Kuijt has questioned the plausibility of such a scenario. However, he confuses the two landslide episodes we discuss and raises unrealistic expectations about lake formation, migration behavior, and residual populations. He also confuses the lacustrine vs. fluvial effects of landslide blockages. While he attributes to us specific interpretations to which we are not tied and which are not critical for our basic argument, he offers no real alternative explanation for why the large Mid-Fraser villages were abandoned.

Résumé

Résumé

Sugerimos anteriormente que el abandono de las aldeas grandes de viviendas semi-subterráneas del período Rio Fraser Medio, alrededor de 1200 BP, fue causado por deslizamientos de tierra que disminuyeron los niveles de salmón y las principales fuentes de subsistencia de estas aldeas. Kuijt ha puesto en duda esta posibilidad. Sin embargo, él confunde dos derrumbes diferentes que mencionamos y crea expectativas poco realistas sobre la formación de lagos, comportamiento migratorio y poblaciones residuales. También confunde los efectos causados por los derrumbes y subsecuentes bloqueos a ríos, con los efectos de bloqueos a lagos. Mientras que nos atribuye interpretaciones con las cuales no estamos vinculados y que no son centrales para nuestro argumento fundamental, no ofrece una verdadera alternativa hacia la razón por la cual estas aldeas fueron abandonadas.

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American Antiquity , Volume 68 , Issue 1 , January 2003 , pp. 157 - 160
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 2003

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