University of Montana (Missoula, MT 59801-4494)
Anna M. Prentiss (Project Director: December 2014 to February 2021)
RZ-230366-15
Collaborative Research
Research Programs
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[Grant products]
Totals:
$142,271 (approved)
$142,227 (awarded)
Grant period:
5/1/2016 – 4/30/2019
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Household Archaeology at Bridge River, British Columbia: The Early Floors of Housepit 54
Excavation, analysis, and interpretation of a single dwelling with fifteen superimposed floors occupied from 300 A.D. over a period of 1,400 years in British Columbia and the preparation for publication of two books. (24 months)
The Bridge River Archaeological Project, a partnership of The University of Montana and the Bridge River Indian Band, will complete excavations of Housepit 54 at the Bridge River site in southern British Columbia. Housepit 54 is a deeply stratified housepit within a village of 80 such houses. This particular house offers the extraordinary opportunity to examine household history on an inter-generational basis spanning a period in which the greater village more than doubled in size, developed socio-economic inequality, suffered economic turmoil, and was eventually abandoned.
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