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In western Canada and the United States, a culturally modified tree (CMT) is one which has been modified by indigenous people as part of their tradition. Such trees are important sources for the history of certain regions. In British Columbia, one of the most commonly modified trees, particularly on the coast, is the Western Red Cedar.

(CMTs) are cultural resources and recorded as archaeological sites protected by state and federal Laws. CMTs are created for a variety of purposes including but not limited to: Figure 1. Example of peeled pine. Indigenous CMTs are often found in groups and may represent multiple visits or frequent use of a location on the landscape.

There are many kinds of CMTs in British Columbia. Examples include trees with bark removed, stumps and felled logs, trees tested for soundness, trees chopped for pitch, trees with scars from plank removal, and trees delimbed for wood. Some kinds are common; others infrequent.

A Culturally Modified Tree , or CMT , is a term used to describe trees that have been modified or scarred by humans either prehistorically or historically. Modifications include bark/cambium removal, trail blazes, territorial or boundary markers (i.e. witness trees), deliberately bent limbs or trunks (directional,

The harvesting of bark from cedar trees has left many thousands of scarred trees in the temperate rain forests. Archaeologists are now studying these trees, often called Culturally Modified Trees or CMTs. There are many other types of CMTs as well as bark-stripped cedars.

Culturally scarred trees from the Oregon Cascades to the Kodiak Archi-pelago in Alaska are predominately cedar, hemlock, spruce, and pine, and can in many cases be correlated with …

2017年11月7日 · Culturally modified trees are a well-known and extensively documented cultural feature in British Columbia’s Central Interior. While there are several types of CMTs, the most common, by far, is barked-stripped lodgepole pine.

CMTs have the potential to shed light on many aspects of aboriginal culture, such as the history and nature of traditional forest use, and the ways in which society was organized at the

WHAT ARE CULTURALLY MODIFIED TREES? The most common CMT’s are trees that have been altered by aboriginal people as a part of their traditional use of the forest. However, CMT’s can also be trees that First have been altered by Nations, after 1846.