Archaeology

Summary of the University of Nebraska State Museum's excavation of sites with extinct mammal bones and early human artifacts.

Long Island excavations in the 1930's indicate that most wampum was produced less than 350 years ago. Methods and materials for making white and black wampum are discussed.

Response to Goldstein and Kintigh’s 1990 article "Ethics and the Reburial Controversy;" argues that repatriation results in the destruction of archaeological collections and presents a serious conflict between religion and science. Asserts that archaeologists must maintain their rights and duties as scholars.

Report on ancient remains found near Bradwell, Saskatchewan.

Comments on the history of several expeditions and the findings.

Archaeology Thesis (M.A.)--Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2011.

Remains of an early 16th-century village. Includes design features, activities, and visitor information.

5 issues of the official publication of The Saskatchewan Archaeological Society's "Spade and Screen". The publication highlights notable archaeological goings on in the province. A majority of the articles contain information about early indigenous peoples activities in the area, including tools, grave sites etc.

Archaeology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 1999.

Analysis of longhouses using the spatially dynamic method to provide data about the development of residences including residence systems, tribal variation in settlement patterns.

Describes the concept of rhetorical sovereignty, and looks at the workings and complications of enacting rhetorical sovereignty using the three inaugural exhibits of the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI).

Review essay of: Becoming Brothertown: Native American Ethnogenesis and Endurance in the Modern World by Craig N. Cipolla. Red Brethren: The Brothertown and Stockbridge Indians and the Problem of Race in Early America by David J. Silverman.

Examines evidence on the assumption that the bow and arrow replaced the altalt spear thrower in eastern North America.

Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--The University of British Columbia, 2007.

Book review of: Spirits of Earth by Robert A. Birmingham. Review located by scrolling to page 209.

Archaeology Thesis (M.A.)--Simon Fraser University, [1987].

Describes a habitation site containing the remains of baskets radiocarbon dated 225 A.D.

Report of an Archaic and later Woodland shell midden site.

Argues that spurred end scrapers were not used on the Holocene terraces but were used on the Wisconsin terraces.

Archaeology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2003.

New data obtained from bone collagen at six prehistoric sites provides evidence of changes in subsistence patterns such as consumption and importance of maize and animal protein in the diet.

Documents the successes, challenges and transformations experienced by Pete Standing Alone and the Blood Reserve in Alberta over the past 25 years. Accompanying material: An Integrated Educator's Guide. Duration: 57:50.

Study of fractured stones reveals that they were created naturally, rather than man-made.

Looks at a wide array of economic activities that took place from the pre-contact era to present times.

Authors discuss artifacts and data collected from the Stock Cove site (CkAl-3); consider the implications—both historic and contemporary--of finding harp seal remains at the site. Additionally, offers some commentary as to the appropriateness of using historical biogeographic data to interpret pre-contact economies.

[Archaeology?] Thesis (M.A.)--Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1985.

Speculates on the origins of a culture that preceded both the Naskapi and Inuit.

Micro wear analysis of tools, leads to clearer theories about the technological systems of those using the tools.

Describes the use of stone walls for the herding process for both small and large herds.

Archaeological survey of trail marked by standing stones at regular intervals in the mountains between Norway and Sweden. Concludes road was built by Norse chieftan.

Book review of: Stories of the Old Ones from the Lee River, Southeastern Manitoba by E. Leigh Syms.

Description of the ancient petroglyph discovered in a ravine along Eagle Creek, Saskatchewan.

Pamphlet about the Stott site, an important bison kill location for pre-contact Aboriginals located near present-day Brandon, MB.

Historical note:

Book review of: Strangers on the Shore edited by Peter Veth, Peter Sutton, and Margo Neale. Review located by scrolling to page 327.

Provides information on an ongoing research initiative aimed at investigating relationships between the aboriginal peoples and early Europeans who met in the eastern Arctic.

Presents results from excavation of semi-subterranean dwellings and tent emplacements.

[Archaeology] Thesis (M.A.)--University of Manitoba, 1985.

Discusses two ideas that influenced Subarctic prehistory; that the Subarctic was not a center for social change and that the environment was excessively austere.

Analysis of diet from bones found at a mid-Holocene site.

Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--The University of Alberta, 1994.

Outlines a classification system for recording the cultural processes archeologists referred to as "disposal of the dead."

Remains recovered from alluvial deposits dated between 6,200 and 8,000 B.C.

References to where Folsom points have been found across North America, not mentioned in Sellards' Early Man in America

Author suggests that the stone circles are examples of a vanished Sámi culture that had previously existed in Sweden.

Discusses a project to create a state-wide system for site identification and documentation of American Indian sacred sites.

Artist's statement and introduction to book of same name.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Michigan, 2010.

Anthropology and Archaeology Thesis (M.A.)--Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2008.