The public has long held a fascination with the archaelogical work at the Hoko River, due to the excellent preservation of artifacts at the site. Beginning in the 1970s, numerous newspaper articles, along with several television mini-documentaries, spread news about the ongoing excavations. Located a short distance upstream from where the Hoko River discharges into the Strait of Juan de Fuca, the Hoko Rockshelter site is one of the first, and the largest, intensively investigated rockshelter habitation sites along the Northwest Coast of North America. A classic coastal shell midden located...