CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- PROLOGUE -- 1 Introduction to Early Human Occupation in British Columbia -- THE FLUTED POINT AND PLANO TRADITIONS -- 2 The Prehistory of Charlie Lake Cave -- 3 The Significance of the Fauna from the Charlie Lake Cave Site -- 4 Paleoindian Sites in the Vicinity of Pink Mountain -- THE INTERMONTANE STEMMED POINT TRADITION -- 5 Early Human Presence in Banff National Park -- 6 Early Post-Glacial Habitation of the Upper Columbia Region -- THE PEBBLE TOOL TRADITION -- 7 The Pasika Complex Revisited -- 8 Early Period Components at the Milliken Site -- 9 Early Namu -- 10 The Early Namu Archaeofauna -- 11 The Old Cordilleran Component at the Glenrose Cannery Site -- THE MICROBLADE TRADITION -- 12 Early Maritime Culture Complexes of the Northern Northwest Coast -- 13 Early Period Archaeology in Gwaii Haanas: Results of the 1993 Field Program -- 14 Comparative Analysis of Microblade Cores from Haida Gwaii -- 15 The Early Prehistoric Occupation of Kitselas Canyon -- 16 The Namu Obsidian Industry -- TRANSITIONAL CULTURES -- 17 The Early Prehistory of the Mid Fraser-Thompson River Area -- 18 Coquitlam Lake: An Early Lithic Component in the Lower Mainland -- 19 Early Surface Collections from the Alberni Valley -- EPILOGUE -- 20 The Later Prehistory of British Columbia -- REFERENCES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.