Daryl Fedje

Position
Status
Limited Term
Contact
Interests
- Archaeology
- Quaternary paleoecology
- Haida Gwaii
Current projects
The Hakai Ancient Landscapes Archaeology Project
The Discovery Islands Ancient Landscapes Project
The Discovery Islands Ancient Landscapes project is funded through the Tula Foundation based in Heriot Bay, BC. The area being considered for investigation includes Quadra, Read, Maurelle and southern Sonora Islands. These lands and adjacent waters include portions of the territories of the We Wai Kai, We Wai Kum, Xwemalhku, Komoks, Klahoose and Kwiakah First Nations.
As described above, the main purposes of this project are to better understand post-glacial environmental change and to gain insights into the human history of the region over the last 15,000 years.
In addition to a focus on early post-glacial to early Holocene paleoecological and archaeological deposits, the investigations will include recording and revisiting sites from all time periods. Archaeological site types and features that have been documented to date include: village sites, shell middens, pictographs, petroglyphs, lithic scatters, fish traps, canoe runs, clam gardens and culturally modified trees.
Publications
Articles and chapters
- Fedje, Daryl, Quentin Mackie, Terri Lacourse and Duncan McLaren (2011). Younger Dryas Environments and Archaeology on the Northwest Coast of North America. Quaternary International 242: 452-462.
- Fedje, Daryl, Quentin Mackie, Nicole Smith and Duncan McLaren (2011). Function, Visibility and Interpretation of Archaeological Assemblages at the Pleistocene-Holocene Transition in Haida Gwaii. In: From the Yenisei to the Yukon: Interpreting Lithic Assemblage Variability in Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene Beringia, edited by Ted Goebel and Ian Buvit, Texas A&M University Press, pp 323-342.
- Mackie, Quentin, Daryl Fedje, Duncan McLaren, Nicole Smith and Iain McKechnie (2011). Early Environments and Archaeology of Coastal British Columbia. In: Trekking the Shore: Changing Coastlines and the Antiquity of Coastal Settlement, edited by Nuno Bicho, Jonathan Haws, and Loren Davis, Springer Publishing Company, New York, pp 51-104.
- McLaren, Duncan, Andrew Martindale, Quentin Mackie, and Daryl Fedje (2011). Relict Shorelines and Shell Middens of the Dundas Islands Archipelago. Canadian Journal of Archaeology 35: 86-116.
- Fedje, Daryl, Ian Sumpter and John Southon (2009). Sea levels and archaeology in the Gulf Islands National Park Reserve. Canadian Journal of Archaeology 33: 234-253.
- Fedje, Daryl, Quentin Mackie, Duncan McLaren and Tina Christensen (2008). A projectile point sequence for Haida Gwaii. In: Projectile point sequences in northwestern North America, edited by R.L. Carslon and M.P. Magne. Simon Fraser University Archaeology Press, Vancouver.
- Fedje, Daryl and Rolf Mathewes (editors) (2005). Haida Gwaii, human history and environment from the time of Loon to the time of the Iron People, Vancouver: UBC Press. 425pp.