Letham Publications
B. Letham. (2024). Perspectives on a Post-White Sands Coast: Re-Evaluating Research into Early Peopling of the Northwest Coast of North America. PaleoAmerica, DOI: 10.1080/20555563.2024.2318129.
Lepofsky, D., B. Letham, M. Ritchie, and C. Armstrong. (2024). Placemaking on the Northwest Coast of North America. In The Oxford Handbook of Island and Coastal Archaeology, edited by. S.M. Fitzpatrick and J. Erlandson. Oxford Academic Press, Oxford, UK.
Letham, B., D. Fedje, C.F.G. Hebda, A. Dyck, J. Stafford, I. Hutchinson, J. Southon, B. Fedje, and D. McLaren. (2024). Postglacial Relative Sea Level Histories of Northern Vancouver Island, Canada. Quaternary Science Reviews 326:108415.
McLaren, D., R. Wigen, D. Fedje, A. Dyck, C.F.G. Hebda, E. Morien, M.W. Pedersen, E. Willerslev, L.Y. Rutledge, M.A. Barrera, J. Stafford, D. Wall, and B. Letham. (2023). Late Pleistocene Faunal Assemblages from Karst Cave Settings on Northern Vancouver Island, Canada. PaleoAmerica DOI: 10.1080/20555563.2023.2272120.
Letham, B., D. Lepofsky, and S. Greening. (2023). Wil Luunda ‘Waada aks (Where the Waters Meet): Deep-time histories of shifting estuarine landscapes and human settlement in Laxgalts’ap watershed, northern British Columbia, Canada. Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology. DOI: 10.1080/15564894.2023.2202154.
Letham, B., I. Dundas, J. Earnshaw, B. Eshom, S. Fisher, G. Fisher, S. Greening, E. Letham, J. Reece, R. Robinson, I. Sellers. (2022). The Moore Islands Project: Deep-Time Indigenous History and Landscape Change on the Outer Northwest Coast of North America. Antiquity 96(386):1-8. DOI: https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2022.10
Letham, B., D. Lepofsky, and S. Greening. (2021). A post-glacial relative sea level curve for the central Douglas Channel area, British Columbia, Canada. Quaternary Science Reviews, 263, 106991.
Letham, B. (2020). Flagship Archaeologists in a Flagship Archaeological Region: Remembering George MacDonald and Ken Ames through the archaeology of the Prince Rupert Harbour, British Columbia, Canada. The Midden, 50(2):60-67.
Letham, B., A. Martindale, and K.M. Ames. (2020). Endowment, Investment, and the Transforming Coast: Long-Term Human-Environment Interactions and Territorial Proprietorship in the Prince Rupert Harbour, Canada. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 59, 101179.
M. Toffolo, M. Ritchie, I. Sellers, J. Morin, N. Lyons, M. Caldwell, R. Maria Albert, B. Letham, F. Berna. (2019). Combustion features from short-lived intermittent occupation at a 1300-year-old Coast Salish rock shelter, British Columbia: the microstratigraphic data. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 23, 646-661.
Letham, B., and G. Coupland. (2018). Ancient Mortuary Ritual and Cultural Resilience on the Northwest Coast of North America. In Hunter-Gatherer Adaptation and Resilience: a Bioarchaeological Perspective, edited by D.H. Temple and C.M. Stojanowski. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 227-252.
Letham, B., A. Martindale, N. Waber, and K.M. Ames. (2018). Archaeological Survey of Dynamic Coastal Landscapes and Paleoshorelines: Locating Early Holocene Sites in the Prince Rupert Harbour Area, British Columbia, Canada. Journal of Field Archaeology, 43(3), 181-199, DOI: 10.1080/00934690.2018.1441575.
Letham, B., A. Martindale, K. Supernant, T.J. Brown, J.S. Cybulski, and K.M. Ames. (2017). Assessing the scale and pace of large shell-bearing site occupation in the Prince Rupert Harbour Area, British Columbia. The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, DOI: 10.1080/15564894.2017.1387621.
Letham, B., A. Martindale, R. Macdonald, E. Guiry, J. Jones, and K.M. Ames. (2016). Postglacial Relative Sea-Level History of the Prince Rupert Harbour area, British Columbia, Canada. Quaternary Science Reviews, 153, 156-191.
Bilton, D., and B. Letham (2016). The Sechelt Archaeology Project (2008-Present). The Midden, 46(1&2), 5-14.
Coupland, G., D. Bilton, T. Clark, J.S. Cybulski, G. Frederick, A. Holland, B. Letham, and G. Williams. (2016). A wealth of beads: evidence for material wealth-based inequality in the Salish Sea region, 4000-3500 cal. BP. American Antiquity, 81(2), 294-315.
Letham, B., A. Martindale, D. McLaren, T. Brown, K. M. Ames, D. J.W. Archer, and S. Marsden. (2015). Holocene Settlement History of the Dundas Islands Archipelago, Northern British Columbia. BC Studies, 187, 51-85.
Letham, B. (2014). Settlement and shell-bearing site diversity in the Sechelt inlet system, British Columbia. Canadian Journal of Archaeology, 38, 280-328.
Martindale, A, and B. Letham. (2011). Causalities and models within the archaeological construction of political order on the Northwest Coast of North America. In The Archaeology of Politics: the Materiality of Political Practice and Action in the Past, edited by P.G. Johansen and A.M. Bauer. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press, pp. 323–353.
Martindale, A., B. Letham, D. McLaren, D. Archer, M. Burchell, and B. Schone. (2009), Subsurface Mapping of Shell Midden Components through Percussion Coring: Examples from the Dundas Islands. Journal of Archaeological Science, 36, 1565-1575.