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Habitation Features

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2018

Arden R. King*
Affiliation:
H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial Collegeand Middle American Research Institute, The Tulane University of Louisiana, New Orleans, La.

Extract

The excavation of the Cattle Point site brought to light several features and structures of man-made origin, or natural features utilized by man. Some of these structures are of such a nature that they present completely unique aspects of culture in the Gulf of Georgia-Puget Sound region. Their use and purpose in some instances is obvious; in other cases it is unknown.

In the East Bluff area a series of stone slab structures of unknown use arouse the greatest curiosity since, as will be described below, they are of such a nature that only descriptions can be given; no conjecture as to use finds parallel in the ethnographical or archaeological literature of the Northwest Coast. Also in the East Bluff area was a series of clay and stone slab bowls associated with a thin, floor-like stratum which suggests cooking structures associated with a house floor. However, as will be seen below, this is not at all certain.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1950

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