Conclusion

The varying images created using different site locations on two different cost surfaces produced some very interesting patterns. It has become quite clear that the Fraser was a very practical means of travelling the Fraser Valley with access to the appropriate boat. Without a boat as your mode of transportation, it becomes apparent that there are a variety of routes that could be utilised to manoeuvre from one end of the Fraser Valley to another. Once into the Fraser Canyon , the variety of routes also seems to increase as the topography of the Canyon does not led itself well to travel southward travel within the canyon into the head of the Fraser Valley . Archaeologically, this model would indicate that an entire class of people were moving through the mountains north of the Fraser Valley to gain access to regions along the Georgia Strait . Whether this can be represented archaeologically is dubious due to the needle in haystack nature of finding prehistoric trails over a large area. Using known oral histories and ethnographic data may allow for a more precise model to be created and focus efforts on establishing the possible locations of regular use camps.

Understanding the landscape interms of all parties that negoitiating an existence in this landscape as it relates to travel but also in understanding the articulation of the relationship between the idiosyncratic and the normative understanding of culture in term of what is written, recorded and rememebered and what may have gone on in the past.

 

 

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