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Clam Gardens
Aboriginal Mariculture on Canada’s West Coast
- Judith Williams
- Transmontanus
- 128 pages, 6.75×9.75 inches
- Price: $19 CAD
- ISBN-10: 1554200237
- ISBN-13: 9781554200238
- Date published: 2006-11-09
- Availability: in print & available
About Clam Gardens
For many years, archaeologists were unaware of the ancient clam terraces at Waiatt Bay, on Quadra Island. Author Judith Williams… [read more]
For many years, archaeologists were unaware of the ancient clam terraces at Waiatt Bay, on Quadra Island. Author Judith Williams knew no differently until she was advised of their existence by a Klahoose elder named Elizabeth Harry (Keekus). By liaising with other observers of clam gardens in the Broughton Archipelago and conducting her own survey of Waiatt Bay and Gorge Harbour on Cortes Island, Williams has amassed evidence that the rock structures seen only at the lowest tides were used by native peoples for the purpose of cultivating butter clams.
Her research does much to challenge the notion of pre–contact West Coast indigenous peoples and hunters–gatherers alone. The clam gardens whose existence she reveals here might also be unique in the world.
Clam Gardens: Aboriginal Mariculture on Canada's West Coast is Number 15 in the Transmontanus series of books edited by Terry Glavin. [less]
About Judith Williams
Judith Williams is the author of Two Wolves at the Dawn of Time: Kingcome Inlet Pictographs 1893-1998,
Judith Williams is the author of Two Wolves at the Dawn of Time: Kingcome Inlet Pictographs 1893-1998, Dynamite Stories and High Slack. She is a member of the Refuge Cove Land and Housing Co-op. [less]
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