Households link micro and macro scales of social interactions, and both reflect and initiate social transformations, from the scale of the house to the region. Despite their potential interpretive efficacy, few studies scale up from interpretations of household dynamics to that of the larger social landscape. We examine local and regional social changes by documenting changing interactions between households at the large Sts’ailes-Coast Salish settlement of Hiqelem on the Harrison River. We focus on the period 1500 to 1000 years ago – a transformative period across the Pacific Northwest Coast and Interior Plateau marked by changes in burial practices, the intensification of warfare, new technologies, and by larger settlements exhibiting ranked social status. Shifts in house(hold) and settlement structure at Hiqelem reveal how these region-wide changes were manifest in social groupings at the local level and how social changes at the local level in turn reverberate throughout the nested social networks characteristic of the region. We detect several related changes at Hiqelem including an increased number of houses, the formation of local groups, the co-occurrence for the first time of pithouses and plank houses, the relocation of houses, increasing segmentation and autonomy of households, and significant differences among house sizes.

家庭将微观和宏观的社会互动联系起来，既反映并引发了从房屋规模到该地区的社会变革。尽管它们具有潜在的解释效力，但很少有研究从对家庭动力的解释扩大到对更大的社会格局的解释。我们通过记录哈里森河上希克勒姆（Hiqelem）的大型Sts'ailes-Coast Salish定居点家庭之间不断变化的相互作用来研究当地和区域的社会变化。我们将重点放在1500到1000年前的时期–整个太平洋西北海岸和内陆高原的转型时期，其特征是埋葬方式的变化，战争的加剧，新技术的发展以及具有较高社会地位的较大的定居点。Hiqelem的房屋（住所）和定居结构的变化揭示了这些区域范围的变化如何在地方级别的社会群体中体现，以及地方级别的社会变化又如何在整个嵌套的区域性社交网络中回荡。我们发现了Hiqelem的一些相关变化，包括房屋数量增加，当地居民群体的形成，首次出现的坑舍和板式房屋共存，房屋搬迁，家庭分割和自治程度增加以及各村之间的显着差异。房子的大小。