ABSTRACT
Our main theme has been the evolution of the Developed Northwest Coast Pattern. We began describing the entrance of humans into the New World and the earliest evidence of human occupation on the Northwest Coast, and traced the cultural developments to the time of European contact in the late eighteenth century. Two separate cultural processes are evident. The first, lasting from circa 10,000 bp to circa 4500 bp, includes the initial human colonization of the Northwest Coast and a relatively long period of Archaic “settling in” to the coastal environment. In the second stage, from circa 4500 bp to European contact, the elements unique to the Developed Northwest Coast Pattern emerge, and this pattern becomes an integrated system around 2000 years ago.
