"Arts, Faculty of"@en . "Anthropology, Department of"@en . "DSpace"@en . "UBCV"@en . "Brown, Douglas Ronald"@en . "2009-03-07T00:00:00"@en . "1996"@en . "Master of Arts - MA"@en . "University of British Columbia"@en . "Archaeological excavations undertaken at the Somenos Creek site (DeRw 18) in 1994 were\r\ndesigned to evaluate the model of the site as an exclusive burial enclave for social elites during the\r\nlast half of the Marpole culture phase (2400-1000 B.P.). The site first came to the attention of\r\narchaeologists in 1992, when land modification activities on the north bank of Somenos Creek\r\nresulted in the accidental disturbance of human burials. Burial data from a subsequent\r\narchaeological salvage operation raised the possibility that all the individuals interred at this southeastern\r\nVancouver Island site may have been social elites. The fact that these apparently high-status\r\nburials were found in an inland shell deposit suggested that crushed shell may have been imported\r\nand placed in order to designate symbolically an exclusive burial location.\r\nEvaluating the burial enclave model involved a stratigraphic analysis of the shell deposit, an\r\nanalysis of the cultural and temporal relationship of the shell deposit to the human burials, and a\r\ncomparison of the Somenos Creek burial pattern with that of the nearby False Narrows site\r\n(DgRw 4). Expectations stemming from the model were that the shell deposit would not exhibit\r\nstratigraphic evidence for in situ development of a shell refuse midden. Further, had shell been\r\nimported to the site from an existing midden, one would expect the shell material to be older than the\r\nassociated burials. Finally, all the Somenos Creek burials would be expected to correspond to the\r\nhigh-status burials found at False Narrows.\r\nResults show the Somenos Creek shell deposit to be a shell midden, in all likelihood the\r\naccumulated refuse from a small settlement. The Somenos Creek burial pattern appears to reflect at\r\nleast two social strata. Significantly, all the Somenos Creek burials post-date the shell midden,\r\nindicating a shift in site use from settlement to cemetery. These results contradict the long-held view\r\namong archaeologists that Marpole societies interred their dead in shell middens behind occupied\r\nvillages. In addition, researchers conducting cross-cultural analyses of ethnographic societies have\r\nfound that when cemeteries occur, they tend to represent corporate groups which control crucial\r\nresources. These corporate groups are likely to legitimize rights of membership, resource control\r\nand inheritance by invoking claims of lineal descent from the dead."@en . "https://circle.library.ubc.ca/rest/handle/2429/5718?expand=metadata"@en . "8513611 bytes"@en . "application/pdf"@en . "DISPOSING O F T H E D E A D A S H E L L M I D D E N C E M E T E R Y IN BRITISH C O L U M B I A ' S G U L F O F G E O R G I A R E G I O N by D O U G L A S R O N A L D B R O W N B . A . , The University of British Columbia, 1993 A THESIS S U B M I T T E D IN P A R T I A L F U L F I L L M E N T O F T H E R E Q U I R E M E N T S F O R T H E D E G R E E O F M A S T E R O F A R T S in T H E F A C U L T Y O F G R A D U A T E S T U D I E S (Department of Anthropology and Sociology) We accept this thesis as conforming to the required standards T H E U N I V E R S I T Y O F BRITISH C O L U M B I A December 1996 \u00C2\u00A9 Douglas Ronald Brown, 1996 In presenting this thesis in partial fulfilment of the requirements for an advanced degree at the University of British Columbia, I agree that the Library shall make it freely available for reference and study. I further agree that permission for extensive copying of this thesis for scholarly purposes may be granted by the head of my department or by his or her representatives. It is understood that copying or publication of this thesis for financial gain shall not be allowed without my written permission. Department of j\f\ /Afc i poL^y "Thesis/Dissertation"@en . "1997-05"@en . "10.14288/1.0058385"@en . "eng"@en . "Anthropology"@en . "Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library"@en . "University of British Columbia"@en . "For non-commercial purposes only, such as research, private study and education. Additional conditions apply, see Terms of Use https://open.library.ubc.ca/terms_of_use."@en . "Graduate"@en . "Disposing of the dead : a shell midden cemetery in British Columbia\u00E2\u0080\u0099s Gulf of Georgia region"@en . "Text"@en . "http://hdl.handle.net/2429/5718"@en .