For Indigenous people across the globe, being connected to traditional lands and histories continues to be of paramount importance. To document this connection on one river system in the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America, we compiled archaeological evidence from 14 settlements occupied between 3,000 years ago and the early 20th century. We demonstrate how households and lineages persisted inter-generationally, expanded demographically and geographically over time, and forged diverse and nested social groupings and networks. We find compelling evidence for the emergence of a “settlement constellation” that formed through long-term processes of social fissioning. Our analysis moves between social, spatial, and temporal scales, tracking changing settlement patterns and demographic trends to the present day, emphasizing persistent occupational and social continuity between the Sts’ailes today and their ancestors. Extraordinarily long-lived house occupations and settlements are a feature of the Northwest Coast of North America, and may be a significant aspect of settlement constellations more generally.

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创下纪录：萨利什海岸定居点星座 3,000 年的连续性和增长

对于全球原住民来说，与传统土地和历史的联系仍然至关重要。为了记录北美太平洋西北海岸一个河流系统的这种联系，我们收集了 3000 年前至 20 世纪初的 14 个定居点的考古证据。我们展示了家庭和血统如何在代际间持续存在，随着时间的推移在人口和地理上扩大，并形成多样化和嵌套的社会群体和网络。我们找到了令人信服的证据，证明通过长期的社会裂变过程形成的“定居点群”的出现。我们的分析在社会、空间和时间尺度之间移动，追踪当今不断变化的定居模式和人口趋势，强调今天的圣艾尔人和他们的祖先之间持续的职业和社会连续性。极其长寿的房屋居住和定居点是北美西北海岸的一个特征，并且可能是更广泛的定居点星座的一个重要方面。