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Northwest Coast

A waterlogged archaeology, and an unusually complete one. Wet sites here preserve basketry, cordage and worked wood that decay everywhere else, filling in a technological world dry-land excavation can only infer.

Known for
Wet sites · Basketry · Cordage · Anaerobic preservation

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Quiz on the Northwest Coast

Chronology here

The periods whose terminology is used in the Northwest Coast.