The Geographical Distribution of Aboriginal Pottery in Canada
- 1 October 1942
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in American Antiquity
- Vol. 8 (2) , 129-141
- https://doi.org/10.2307/275505
Abstract
Practically all of the aboriginal inhabitants of Canada, including the Eskimo, made and used pottery. The only people who do not seem to have used it are the Indians of the coast and interior of British Columbia; in fact, according to Wissler, “practically the whole Pacific belt … is without pottery.“ As can be seen from the map (Fig. 7), pottery is fairly well distributed over the southern part of Canada, but even here our knowledge of its occurrence is far from complete, owing to the lack of archaeological exploration. There are vast areas elsewhere in Canada from which no pottery has been reported, including southern Ungava, northern Ontario, northern Manitoba, northern and western Alberta, and the Northwest Territories.Keywords
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