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The 1983 excavations were directed by Knut Fladmark. Funding for all excavations was provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).

       Many thanks to all the people who worked at Charlie Lake Cave in 1983, 1990 and 1991, some of whom are recorded in these photographs.

Camp life at Charlie Lake: A few of the 1983 Field Crew (left to right) Knut Fladmark, Dick Gilbert, Diana Alexander
The 1990 Field Crew Back (left to right): Simon Driver, Andrew Driver Front (l to r): Greg Sullivan, John Breffitt, Martin Handly, Giles Ionone
The 1991 Field Crew Back (left to right): mostly hidden: the unknown archaeologist, Giles Ionone, Randy Preston, Martin Handly Middle (l to r): Owen Gilbert, Judy Gilbert, Cathy Driver, Greg Sullivan, Susan Montgomery, Knut Fladmark Front (l to r): Andrew Driver, Simon Driver
Well, we did manage to find time for some important stuff too! (left to right) Simon Driver, John Breffitt, A Fish, Andrew Driver And in the background (by special arrangement wth Mother Nature) Charlie Lake.

REFERENCES*

Burns, J.A. 1996. Vertebrate paleontology and the alleged ice-free corridor: the meat of the matter. Quaternary International 32:107-112.

Driver, J.C.1988. Late Pleistocene and Holocene vertebrates and palaeoenvironments from Charlie Lake Cave, northeast British Columbia. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 25:1545-1553.

Driver, J.C.1996. The Significance of the fauna from Charlie Lake Cave. In Carlson, R.L. and Dalla Bona, L., ed. Early Human Occupation in British Columbia. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press. 21-28.

Driver, J.C. 1999. Raven Skeletons from Paleoindian contexts, Charlie Lake Cave, British Columbia. American Antiquity, 64(2):289-298.

Driver, J.C. and Hobson, K.A. 1992. A 10500-year sequence of bird remains from the southern boreal forest region of western Canada. Arctic 45(2):105-110.

Fladmark, K.R. 1996. The prehistory of Charlie Lake Cave. In: Carlson, R.L. and Dalla Bona, L., ed. Early Human Occupation in British Columbia. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press. 11-20.

Fladmark, K.R., Driver, J.C. and Alexander, D.1988. The Palaeoindian component at Charlie Lake Cave (HbRf 39), British Columbia. American Antiquity 53(2):371-384.

Handly, M.J.1993. Lithic assemblage variability at Charlie Lake Cave (HbRf-39) : a stratified rockshelter in northeastern British Columbia. Unpublished M.A. thesis, Department of Anthropology, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario.

Lundelius, E.L., Graham, R.W., Anderson, E., Guilday, J., Holman, J.A., Steadman, D.W., Webb, D.S. 1983. Terrestrial vertebrate faunas. In : Porter, S.C., ed. Late-Quaternary environments of the United States, volume 1, the late Pleistocene. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 311-353.

MacDonald, G.M. (1987). Postglacial development of the subalpine-boreal transition forest of western Canada. Journal of Ecology, 75, 303-320.

White, J.M. (1983). Late Quaternary geochronology and palaeoecology of the upper Peace River District, Canada. Unpublished PhD Dissertation, Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia.

*References are from the original paper presented in 1996