Fine-screen animal bone and Pacific salmon ancient DNA (aDNA) results from Northwest Coast shell midden sites, together with other kinds of material culture, can provide detailed information on foodways, site-specific activities, and sociality. Seasonal use of the landscape may also be revealed through an understanding of place in the southern Gulf Islands of British Columbia, Canada. New results from column sample faunal analysis at the Pender Canal site are considered in conjunction with previously identified fauna. Alongside site characteristics, zooarchaeological and aDNA species identification data are employed to help reconstruct activities that people undertook. These tasks and their social implications at Pender Canal are contextualized with a discussion of several similar data sets from contemporary sites in the region. Temporal patterns in small fish remains and ancient salmon DNA at Pender Canal correspond with region-wide changes in land use, helping us interpret the formation of Coast Salish social relationships and identities over millennia.

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走向太平洋西北海岸海湾群岛南部的美食地理

来自西北海岸贝壳遗址的精细筛选动物骨骼和太平洋鲑鱼古 DNA (aDNA) 与其他种类的物质文化一起，可以提供有关饮食方式、特定地点活动和社会性的详细信息。通过了解加拿大不列颠哥伦比亚省南部海湾群岛的地方，也可以揭示景观的季节性使用。彭德运河站点的柱状样本动物群分析的新结果与先前确定的动物群一起考虑。除了遗址特征外，还使用动物考古和 aDNA 物种识别数据来帮助重建人们进行的活动。彭德运河的这些任务及其社会影响与对该地区当代遗址的几个类似数据集的讨论相结合。