HECA Lab Publications

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2025

Rick, Torben C., Hugh D. Radde, Linda Bentz, Todd J. Braje, Iain McKechnie, & Emma A. Elliott Smith  2025. Into the Deep: Origins & Evolution of Northeastern Pacific Ocean Tuna Fisheries. Fish and Fisheries https://doi.org/10.1111/faf.70024.

Tinker, M. Tim, Anne K. Salomon, Shawn E. Larson, & Iain McKechnie 2025. A catastrophic and unintended experiment: Revising our understanding of sea otters and their social and ecological importance based on a system in transition. In Sea Otter Conservation II: Nearshore Ecosystem Restoration. Shawn Larson, James Bodkin, and Erin Foster (eds.). Academic Press, New York. pp. 165–202. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-443-18805-3.00003-3

Barclay, Kristina M., Julia K. Baum, Denis St. Claire, & Iain McKechnie 2025. Merging coastal archaeology and conservation paleobiology to evaluate shellfish resilience to Indigenous harvest over the past 3000 years. Biological Conservation 307:111186. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2025.111186

Salomon, Anne & Iain McKechnie, 2025. Insights Gained from Including People in our Models of Nature and Modes of Marine Science. Annual Review of Marine Science 17:167-191. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-marine-021523-105524

2024

Hillis, Dylan, Kristina Barclay, Erin Foster, Hannah Kobluk, Taylor Vollman, Anne Salomon, Chris Darimont and Iain McKechnie. 2024. Estimating size-at-harvest from Indigenous archaeological clamshell assemblages in coastal British Columbia. Facets 9(1):1–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/facets-2023-0128

Beaty, F. L., P. S. Domínguez-Sánchez, K. B. Nalven, J. Palacios-Abrantes, K. L. Oken, N. C. Ban, K. J. Nickols, F. Juanes, T. A. Okey, A. K. Spalding, H. Nalini Morzaria-Luna, L. D. Jenkins, V. Tulloch, and I. McKechnie. 2024. Centering relationships to place for more meaningful research and engagement. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 121:e2306991121 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2306991121

2023

Lin, A.T., Hammond-Kaarremaa, L., Liu, H.-L., Stantis, C., McKechnie, I., Pavel, M., sa’hLa mitSa Pavel, S., Sen̓áḵw Wyss, S., Xweliqwiya Bolton, R., Morsette, D., qwasen Sparrow, D., Kwulasultun White, E., Carr, K., Aninta, S., Perri, A., Hartt, J., Bergström, A., Carmagnini, A., Charlton, S., Dalén, L., Feuerborn, T., France, C., Gopalakrishnan, S., Grimes, V., Harris, A., Kavich, G., Sacks, B., Sinding, M., Skoglund, P., Stanton, D., Ostrander, E., Larson, G., Armstrong, C., Frantz, L., Hawkins, M., Kistler, L., 2023. The History of Coast Salish ‘Woolly Dogs’ Revealed by Ancient Genomics and Indigenous Knowledge. Science 382(6676):1303–1308. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adi6549

Salmen-Hartley, Jacob, and Iain McKechnie 2023. An Examination of Indigenous Halibut Fishing Technology on the Northwest Coast of North America. Arctic Anthropology 59(1):87–105. https://osf.io/bfhpj/

Darimont, Chris T., Rob Cooke, Mathieu L. Bourbonnais, Heather M. Bryan, Stephanie M. Carlson, James A. Estes, Mauro Galetti, Taal Levi, Jessica L. Maclean, Iain McKechnie, Paul C. Paquet, and Boris Worm 2023 Humanity’s diverse predatory niche. Communications Biology 6:609. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-04940-w

Salomon, Anne K., Daniel K. Okamoto, Barbara J. Wilson (Kii7iljuus), Tommy Happynook (hiininaasim), Wickaninnish, Anne Mack (wiicuckum), Allan Davidson (Skil Hiilans), Guujaaw Gidansda, Harvey L. Humchitt (Wigvilhba Wakas), Tom Happynook (Mexsis), Christina Cox (Weiwimtaeek), Francis Gillette (Hyuuštulth), Samantha Christiansen (N’yasim), Dianna Dragon, Hannah M. Kobluk, Lynn Lee, M. Tim Tinker, Jennifer J. Silver, Derek Armitage, Iain McKechnie, Aaron MacNeil, Dylan Hillis, Ella-Kari Muhl, Edward J. Gregr, Christian J. C. Commander, and Arianna Augustine. 2023. Disrupting and diversifying the values, voices, and governance principles that shape biodiversity science and management. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 378(1881):20220196. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2022.0196

Crabtree, Stefani, Jennifer G. Kahn, Rowan Jackson, Spencer A. Wood, Iain McKechnie, Philip Verhagen, Jacob K. Earnshaw, Patrick V. Kirch, Jennifer A. Dunne, and Andrew Dugmore. 2023. Why are sustainable practices often elusive? The role of information flow in the management of networked human-environment interactions. Global Environmental Change 78(1):102597 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2022.102597

2022

Hillis, Dylan, Robert Gustas, Daniel Pauly, William W. L. Cheung, Anne K. Salomon, and Iain McKechnie (2022) A Paleothermometer of Ancient Indigenous Fisheries Reveals Increases in Mean Temperature of the Catch Over Five Millennia. Environmental Biology of Fishes 105:1381–1397. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10641-022-01243-7

Gustas, Robert, Iain McKechnie, Quentin Mackie, and Chris T. Darimont (2022) Estimating Coastal Shell Midden Site Volumes Using Geometric Solids: An Example from Tseshaht Territory, Western Vancouver Island, British Columbia Canada. Advances in Archaeological Practice 10(2):200–214. https://doi.org/10.1017/aap.2022.9

Reeder-Myers, Leslie A., Todd J. Braje, Courtney A. Hofman, Emma A. Elliot Smith, Carey Garland, Michael A. Grone, Carla Hadden, Marco Hatch, Turner Hunt, Alice Kelley, Michelle J. LeFebvre, Iain McKechnie, Ian J. McNiven, Bonnie Newsom, Thomas Pluckhahn, Gabriel M. Sanchez, Margo Schwadron, Karen Y. Smith, Tam Smith, Arthur Spiess, Gabrielle Tayac, Taylor Vollman, Elic M. Weitzel, and Torben C. Rick (2022) Indigenous oyster fisheries persisted for millennia and should inform future management. Nature Communications 13:2383 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29818-z

Campos, Alberto A., Cameron D. Bullen, Edward J. Gregr, Iain McKechnie, and Kai M. A. Chan (2022). Steller’s sea cow uncertain history illustrates importance of ecological context when interpreting demographic histories from genomes. Nature Communications 13:3674 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31381-6

Duffield, Seonaid, Jennifer Walkus, Elroy White, Iain McKechnie, Quentin Mackie, & Duncan McLaren
(2022) Documenting 6,000 years of Indigenous fisheries and settlement as seen through vibracore sampling on the Central Coast of British Columbia, Canada. American Antiquity. 87(1):168–183 https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2021.113

Slade, Erin, Iain McKechnie, and Anne K. Salomon (2022) Archaeological and contemporary evidence indicates low sea otter prevalence along the Pacific Northwest Coast during the late Holocene. Ecosystems. 25:548–566 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-021-00671-3

2021

Bullen, Cameron D., Alberto A. Campos, Edward J. Gregr, Iain McKechnie, and Kai M.A. Chan (2021) The ghost of a giant – Six hypotheses for how an extinct megaherbivore structured kelp forests across the North Pacific Rim. Global Ecology and Biogeography 30(10):2101-2118. https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.13370.

Henson, Lauren H., Niko Balkenhol, Robert Gustas, Megan Adams, Jennifer Walkus, William G. Housty, Astrid Vik Stronen, Jason Moody, Christina Service, Donald Reece, Bridgett VonHoldt, Iain McKechnie, Ben F. Koop, and Chris T. Darimont (2021) Convergent geographic patterns between grizzly bear population genetic structure and Indigenous language groups in coastal British Columbia. Ecology and Society 26.(3). https://doi. org/10.5751/ES-12443-260307

DeRoy, Bryant, Vernon Brown, Christina Service, Martin Leclerc, Christopher Bone, Iain McKechnie, and Chris T. Darimont (2021) Combining high-resolution remotely sensed data with local and Indigenous Knowledge to model the landscape suitability of culturally modified trees: biocultural stewardship in Kitasoo/Xai’xais Territory. Facets 6(1):465–489. https://doi.org/10.1139/facets-2020-0047

 2020

McKechnie, Iain, Madonna L. Moss, and Susan J. Crockford (2020) Domestic Dogs and Wild Canids of the Northwest Coast of North America: Animal Husbandry in a Region without Agriculture? Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 60: 101209. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2020.101209

Hillis, Dylan, Iain McKechnie, Eric Guiry, Denis E. St. Claire, and Chris T. Darimont (2020) Ancient Dog Diets on the Pacific Northwest Coast: Zooarchaeological and Stable Isotope Modelling Evidence from Tseshaht Territory and Beyond. Scientific Reports 10:15630 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-71574-x

Duffield, Seonaid, Iain McKechnie, Denis St. Claire, and Duncan McLaren (2020) Vibracore Sampling in the Broken Group Islands. The Midden 5 (2):34–37. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/12499

Salomon, Anne K., Jenn M. Burt, Barbara Wilson Kii’iljuus, and Iain McKechnie (2020) Reimagining our relationship with sea otters, kelp forests and fisheries. Report prepared for the Pew Marine Fellows Program, School of Resource and Environmental Management, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby and submitted to Council of Haida Nation, Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council, Heiltsuk Tribal Council, and the Sugpiaq Village Councils of Port Graham and Nanwalek. http://coastalvoices.net/books-articles-reports

2018

Martindale, Andrew, Gordon T. Cook, Iain McKechnie, Kevan Edinborough, Ian Hutchinson, Morley Eldridge, Kisha Supernant and Kenneth M. Ames (2018) Estimating Marine Reservoir Effects (MRE) in Archaeological Chronologies: Comparing ΔR Calculations in Prince Rupert Harbour, British Columbia, Canada. American Antiquity 83(4):659–680. https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2018.47

Anne K. Salomon, Ken Lertzman, Kelly Brown, Ḵii’iljuus (Barb Wilson), Dave Secord, and Iain McKechnie 2018 Democratizing conservation science and practice. Ecology and Society 23(1):44 https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09980-230144

Rodrigues, Antonia T., Iain McKechnie and Dongya Y. Yang 2018 Ancient DNA analysis of Indigenous rockfish use on the Pacific Coast: Implications for marine conservation areas and fisheries management. PLoS One 13(2):e0192716 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0192716

2017

Chelsey G. Armstrong, Anna C. Shoemaker, Iain McKechnie, Anneli Ekblom, Péter Szabó, Paul J. Lane, Alex C. McAlvay, Oliver J. Boles, Sarah Walshaw, Nik Petek, Kevin S. Gibbons, Erendira Quintana Morales, Eugene N. Anderson, Aleksandra Ibragimow, Grzegorz Podruczny, Jana C. Vamosi, Tony Marks-Block, Joyce K. LeCompte, Sākihitowin Awasis, Carly Nabess, Paul Sinclair, Carole L. Crumley 2017 Anthropological contributions to historical ecology: 50 questions, infinite prospects. PLoS One 12(2): e0171883 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0171883

2016

McKechnie, Iain and Madonna L. Moss 2016 Meta-analysis in Zooarchaeology Expands Perspectives on Indigenous Fisheries of the Northwest Coast of North America. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 8:470–485. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2016.04.006

2015

McKechnie, Iain, Sarah W. Kansa and Steve Wolverton 2015 Snapshots of Digital Scholarship in Zooarchaeology: Introduction to the Special Issue. Ethnobiology Letters 6(2):218–223.

McKechnie, Iain  2015 Indigenous Oral History and Settlement Archaeology in the Broken Group Islands, Western Vancouver Island. BC Studies (187):191–225. https://doi.org/10.14288/bcs.v0i187.186162

McMillan, Alan D. and Iain McKechnie 2015 Investigating Indigenous Adaptations to British Columbia’s Exposed Outer Coast: Introduction to These Outer Shores. BC Studies (187):3–20. https://doi.org/10.14288/bcs.v0i187.187387

Gerald G. Singh, Iain McKechnie, Todd J. Braje, and Breana Campbell. 2015 “All Models Are Wrong but Some Are Useful”: A Response to Campbell’s comment on estimating Mytilus californianus shell size. Journal of Archaeological Science 63(11):160–163. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2015.08.021

2014

McKechnie, Iain, Lepofsky, D., Moss, M.L., Butler, V.L., Orchard, T.J., Coupland, G., Foster, F., Caldwell, M., Lertzman, K., 2014. Archaeological data provide alternative hypotheses on Pacific herring (Clupea pallasii) distribution, abundance, and variability. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 111(9):E807–E816. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1316072111

2012

McKechnie, I., 2012. Zooarchaeological Analysis of the Indigenous Fishery at the Huu7ii Big House and Back Terrace, Huu-ay-aht Territory, Southwestern Vancouver Island. In: McMillan, A.D., St. Claire, D.E. (Eds.), Huu7ii: Household Archaeology at a Nuu-chah-nulth Village Site in Barkley Sound, Archaeology Press, Burnaby, pp. 154–186. https://archpress.lib.sfu.ca/index.php/archpress/catalog/view/37/10/398

Szpak, P., Orchard, T.J., McKechnie, I., Gröcke, D.R., 2012. Historical Ecology of Late Holocene Sea Otters (Enhydra lutris) from Northern British Columbia: Isotopic and Zooarchaeological Perspectives. Journal of Archaeological Science 39(5):1553–1571. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2011.12.006

Speller, C.F., Hauser, L., Lepofsky, D., Peterson, D., Moore, J., Rodrigues, A., Moss, M.L., McKechnie, I., Yang, D.Y., 2012. High Potential for Using DNA from Ancient Herring Bones to Inform Modern Fisheries Management and Conservation. PLoS One 7(11):e51122. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0051122

2011

McKechnie, I., Wigen, R.J., 2011. Toward a Historical Ecology of Pinniped and Sea Otter Hunting Traditions on the Coast of Southern British Columbia. In: Braje, T.J., Rick, T.C. (Eds.), Human Impacts on Seals, Sea Lions, and Sea Otters: Integrating Archaeology and Ecology in the Northeast Pacific, Univ. of California, Berkeley, pp. 129–166. https://doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520267268.003.0007

Mackie, Q., Fedje, D.W., McLaren, D., Smith, N.F., McKechnie, I., 2011. Early Environments and Archaeology of Coastal British Columbia. In: Bicho, N.F., Haws, J.A., Davis, L.G. (Eds.), Trekking the Shore: Changing Coastlines and the Antiquity of Coastal Settlement, Springer, New York, pp. 51–103. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8219-3_3

Before 2010

McMillan, A.D., McKechnie, I., St. Claire, D.E., Frederick, S.G., 2008. Exploring Variability in Maritime Resource Use on the Northwest Coast: A Case Study from Barkley Sound, Western Vancouver Island. Canadian Journal of Archaeology 32(2):214–238. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41103625

McKechnie, I., 2007. Investigating the Complexities of Sustainable Fishing at a Prehistoric Village on Western Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. Journal for Nature Conservation 15:208–222. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnc.2007.05.001

Moss, M.L., Yang, D.Y., Newsome, S.D., Speller, C.F., McKechnie, I., McMillan, A.D., Losey, R.J., Koch, P., 2006. Historical Ecology and Biogeography of North Pacific Pinnipeds: Isotopes and Ancient DNA from Three Archaeological Assemblages. Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology 1(2):165–190. https://doi.org/10.1080/15564890600934129

McKechnie, I., 2005. Column Sampling and The Archaeology of Small Fish at Ts’ishaa. In: McMillan, A.D., St. Claire, D.E. (Eds.), Ts’ishaa: Archaeology and Ethnography of a Nuu-chah-nulth Origin Site in Barkley Sound, Archaeology Press, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, pp. 206–223. https://archpress.lib.sfu.ca/index.php/archpress/catalog/view/70/40/1721