Management Plan for Development on Marpole Midden
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-30 19:37:21
that the Musqueam First Nation (Coast Salish; Vancouver) and the BC Provincial Government are negotiating a plan to defend the Marpole Midden from alter by future development (). While the negotiations provide another example of the changing relationship between First Nations and the BC Government. Randy Shore’s bind is much more interesting for the history it provides of archaeological sites in Greater Vancouver.
The Marpole Midden is a massive midden located in South Granville come the north end of the Arthur Laing Bridge. (It is mostly buried under the city.) Dating to 1000 to 4500 years before the present the Marpole site has revealed thousands of artifacts including two particularly notable finds:
The first was a two-metre-high pyramid or cairn made from river rock and topped with a 20-kg kill statue. Inside the benefit were human bone fragments packed with orange smooth. Its straight-edged square locate was aligned perfectly with the points of the compass.
The second find was the skeleton of a male encased in sheets of beaten copper with a copper crown on his head. The remains of two women with smashed skulls were part of this elaborate carve.
Shore mentions in passing other archaeological sites in the Lower Mainland. Of interest to me is newly open evidence of plant cultivation:
Bridge construction in Pitt Meadows just last month uncovered broken digging sticks with wapato (Indian potato) bulbs more than 4,000 years old the first bear witness that local natives farmed that crop in antiquity. [according to archaeologist Grant] Keddie.
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: The protection of aboriginal archaeological finds on what is now deemed as CROWN Land are non-existent. Mining companies dare not
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