Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: The Archaeology of North Pacific Fisheries: An Introduction -- Section I: New Methodological Approaches to the Archaeology of Fisheries -- Chapter 2: Identification of Salmon Species from Archaeological Remainson the Northwest Coast -- Chapter 3: Little Ice Age Climate: Gadus macrocephalus Otoliths as a Measure of Local Variability -- Chapter 4: Pacific Cod and Salmon Structural Bone Density: Implications for Interpreting Butchering Patterns in North Pacific Archaeofaunas -- Section II: Salmon in Context: Regional and Local Variation -- Chapter 5: Site-Specific Salmon Fisheries on the Central Coast of British Columbia -- Chapter 6: Heiltsuk Stone Fish Traps on the Central Coast of British Columbia -- Chapter 7: Riverine Salmon Harvesting and Processing Technology in Northern British Columbia -- Chapter 8: Late Holocene Fisheries in Gwaii Haanas: Species Composition, Trends in Abundance, and Environmental or Cultural Explanations -- Chapter 9: Locational Optimization and Faunal Remains in Northern Barkley Sound, Western Vancouver Island, British Columbia -- Section III: Pacific Cod and Other Gadids: "Cousins" of the Fish That Changed the World -- Chapter 10: Pacific Cod in Southeast Alaska: The "Cousin" of the Fish That Changed the World -- Chapter 11: Zooarchaeology of the "Fish That Stops": Using Archaeofaunas to Construct Long-Term Time Series of Atlantic and Pacific Cod Populations -- Chapter 12: Processing the Patterns: Elusive Archaeofaunal Signatures of Cod Storage on the North Pacific Coast -- Chapter 13: Cod and Salmon: A Tale of Two Assemblages from Coffman Cove, Alaska -- Section IV: Herring and Other Little-Known Fish of the North Pacific Coast -- Chapter 14: Fish Traps and Shell Middens at Comox Harbour, British Columbia.

Chapter 15: An Archaeological History of Holocene Fish Use in the Dundas Island Group, British Columbia -- Chapter 16: Patterns of Fish Usage at a Late Prehistoric Northern Puget Sound Shell Midden -- Chapter 17: Herring Bones in Southeast Alaska Archaeological Sites: The Record of Tlingit Use of Yaaw (Pacific Herring, Clupea pallasii) -- Section V: Conclusion -- Chapter 18: Conclusion: The Archaeology of North Pacific Fisheries -- Contributors -- Index.