ABSTRACT
The Developed Northwest Coast Pattern was fully achieved in a variety of places along the Northwest Coast in the period from 2500 to 1400 years ago. In some ways this period appears to be the peak of complexity, with artistic achievements not matched in later archaeological cultures, and good evidence of pronounced ascribed status differences. This stage, like so many others, was both first described and is best known from the Gulf of Georgia area where it is manifested as the Marpole phase. Despite widespread and long-established agreement that Marpole culture had reached the Developed Northwest Coast Pattern, the grounds for this inference were weak until the late 1980s.
