Hunting and gathering is an old lifestyle that hardly anyone practices any more. Basically, a hunter-gatherer family lived off the land, migrating as the birds and mammals moved around the land season to season, and paying attention to ripening food plant schedules throughout the year.
It sounds like an idyllic life, doesn't it? and you may be tempted to think of hunter-gatherers as not as sophisticated and intelligent as the people who built villages or domesticated crops. But, you see, hunter-gatherers of the world are the people who learned how to build villages, who learned how to domesticate crops and make pottery, and eventually became those villagers and farmers.
Keatley Creek is an important archaeological site, located in the beautiful Fraser Valley of British Columbia. There, some 1500 years ago, hunter-gatherers came together and built a village, one of several villages in the Fraser Valley, and the archaeological study of Keatley Creek and its neighbors makes for compelling learning about the ways of hunter-gatherers.
More on Keatley Creek
- Keatley Creek, About.com summary of research
- Keatley Creek, from excavator Brian Hayden at Simon Fraser University
- American Hunter-Gatherer Sites
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