Originally published in 1981, this comprehensive work is an account of Great Lakes peoples--prehistoric, protohistoric, and early historic.

The chapters making up this volume are not just a collection of parts which were more or less on the same topic and happened to be available for cobbling together. Instead, they were written especially for it. We had before us from the beginning the goal of creating a synthesis of interest to students of environmental adaptation, but adaptation broadly construed, and to one of the world's difficult environments-the boreal forest. This is anthropology-but not anthropology of the old school. A word of explanation may be in order. Ecologists and those in traditional biological sci ences may find some of what follows to be familiar in format and in intellectual approach. Others of our perspectives may feel less comfortable and in fact may seem to be refugees from scholarship more of the sort pursued by historians. All that is quite true and rather nicely reflects the dualities and potential of anthropology as a discipline. We have always drawn strength from the arts as well as the sciences. We have more recently tried to identify biological templates for human behavior, and to understand the reciprocal impact of behavior on the human organism. Anthropology is a discipline, part art and part science, which is at once historical, behavioral, societal, and biological. No species has left a clearer path through time than has ours, and none has made its way through such a diversity of challenging environments. Determining how humanity has managed to do that is our goal.

Editorial Sedentism on the Columbia Plateau: A Matter of Degree Related to the Easy and Efficient Procurement of Resources - E. S. Lohse and D. Sammons-Lohse The Bandon Burials--Symposium 1. The Bandon Case (35-CS-43C): Applying the Oregon Burial Law - Dick Ross 2. A Bandon Perspective on Site 35-CS-43C - Betty Lindon-Vogel and Roberta L. Hall 3. Faunal Remains and Artifacts from Bandon, Oregon, Site 35-CS-43C - Lee W. Lindsay, Jr. and Anthony R. Keith 4. Analysis of a Sea Mammal Canine Pendant - Mariana L. Mace 5. Skeletal Population at 35-CS-43C, May, 1986 - Roberta L. Hall Microdebitage Analysis in Activity Analysis, An Application - Elizabeth D. Vance Native American Religious Use in the Pacific Northwest: A Case Study from the Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest - Madonna L. Moss Coast Salish Social Organization and Economic Redistribution - William R. Belcher Flora Present at the Pierce, Idaho, Chinese Mining Site, 10-CW-436 - Priscilla Wegars Comments on the Distribution of Folsom Points in Eastern Oregon and Southern Idaho - Mark G. Plew and Daniel S. Meatte Cultural Resource Management and the Oregon Bibliographic File System - Leland Gilson

Focusing on stunning paintings and engravings from around the world, 16 papers interrogate the driving forces behind global rock art research. Many of the motifs featured were created by indigenous hunter-gatherer groups; this book sheds new light on non-Western rituals and worldviews, many of which are threatened or on the point of extinction.

Articles by prominent archaeologists and geological scientists shed new light on the late Palaeo-Indian cultures of the Great Lakes during a time of staggering environmental change and challenge, as the ice sheets retreated northward. The human response to the dramatic environmental upheaval produced unique cultural patterns, which we are just beginning to understand.