ABSTRACT
The intensification of reliable, abundant food resources is linked to trends towards increasing sedentariness and social complexity among prehistoric hunter-gatherers (e.g., Price and Brown 1985). On the Canadian Plateau (Fig. 4.1), fluctuations in the availability and utilization of salmon resources continues to play a major explanatory role in discussions of Late Prehistoric (4500-200 bp) culture change, while the contributions of plant resources are undervalued and/or ignored (Fladmark 1975, 1982; Hayden et al. 1985; Richards and Rousseau 1987; Kuijt 1989; Stryd and Rousseau 1996; Hayden 1997; but see Lepofsky et al. 1996 for a notable exception).
