Archaeology

Looks at images and filmic representations found in global media and the issues surrounding culture, identity and ethnicity.

Article highlights trends in Australian archaeology, focusing on how language is used to disempower Indigenous Australians, Indigenous cultural sovereignty and the results of treating research as shared property.

Book review of Decolonizing Indigenous Histories edited by Maxine Oland, Siobhan M. Hart and Liam Frink.

Law Thesis (LL.M.)--Dalhousie University, 1995

Author discusses implications of the study of pre-contact land use by archaeologists including government policy surrounding and permits granted for resource extraction from Indigenous lands.

Comments on the connection between archaeology and cultural heritage.

Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Manitoba, 2012

Study conducted interviews with Dene Elders and hunters in order to document past and present migration patterns and reasons for changes in those patterns.

Research on post-Pleistocene human populations and major themes in dental anthropology.

Looks at the conflicting attitudes between archeologists and Indigenous people regarding the excavation of Indigenous burial sites.

Comments on the problem of removal of ancestral remains and sacred items from burial grounds and other sacred sites by scientists and pothunters.

Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Alberta, 1998.

Article discusses the artifacts and objects collected by Alphonse Pinart and William Dell from Unga Island burial caves; authors look at the provenance of the objects, which are now divided between Château-Musée de Boulogne-sur-Mer (France) and the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History, and the potential for additional study.

Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Alberta, 2004.

Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1975.

Archaeology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Arizona, 1937.

Discusses how archaeology evolved from antiquarianism to the recent discipline.

Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Manitoba, 1998.

After artifacts were found at Folsom, New Mexico in 1927, questions arose as to whether the extinct mammoth might be related to present day bison.

Archaeology Thesis (M.A.)--Simon Fraser Univerisity, 1998.

Article cautions on drawing conclusions on coastal dune zones specifically or generally due to the inferential problems caused by lack of preservation of these sites.

Author examines and discusses the narrative of a civilization—the Moundbuilders of America—that inhabited the Mississippi River valley prior to contemporary Indigenous peoples.

Book review of: Digging Up a Past by John Mulvaney.

Gives an overview of American paleontology relationship with Native American Reservations.

Geography Thesis (Ph.D)--University of Nebraska, 2010.

Explores the various avenues for the controversial protection of American Indian sacred sites.

Argues that the transformation from Thule to Inuit culture was a result of contact with Europeans and repeated disease outbreaks.

Discussion of projectile points.

Discusses the manner in which the Coast Salish attitude towards death and burial has been reflected in their cultural practices and oral traditions.

Book review of: Do Glaciers Listen? Local Knowledge, Colonial Encounters & Social Imagination by Julie Cruikshank.

Comments on the knowledge gained by studying beehive shaped huts unique to an area of Australia.

Interpreting ritual activity involving dogs and wolves coincided with increased warfare with Mississippians in the Middle Ohio Valley region.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Washington University, 2006.

Suggests that warming sea temperatures impacted harp seal resources which in turn displaced the Dorset Paleoeskimos from the area.

Presents a brief description of a longhouse structure and its associated hearth rows including the significance of the architectural and artifactual patterning.

Presents results of excavations at Abverdjar and an explanation of what the artifacts reveal about the Dorset way of life.

Archaeology Thesis (M.A.)--Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2002.

Study of artifacts showed inconsistent usage patterns and some unique design elements.

Discusses technology transfer between Dorset and Thule and the lack of evidence of personal contact. Argues that material was salvaged from Dorset sites.

Describes and analyzes the characteristic style of tip fluting points in the Early and Middle Dorset.

Discusses major themes, narrative structures, and certain installations in the exhibition that constitutes a new departure for the museum.

Summary of the prominent scholar's contributions to the field.

Contends that Paleoindians at this site only collected and consumed one or two plant types due to availability around the camp.

Dr. Alice Kehoe drawing a soil profile from beside a chimney at the Francois-Finlay Post excavation near Nipawin, SK in 1964.

Historical note:

The Francois-Finlay Post was the first "pedlar" post on the Saskatchewan River was a combined effort of François Le Blanc, a veteran of the La Vérendrye family's 1740's expeditions, and James Finlay, a Scottish-born businessman. Located just about 150 kilometres east of Prince Albert, below Finlay's Falls near present-day Nipawin, Saskatchewan, the stockaded post was the focus of 20th century archeological excavations.

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

Describes an early canoe that was possibly constructed before 1900 A.D.

The last two images showing two different angles of the dugout canoe that is on display at the Prince Albert Historical Society Museum. The first of the three images is the informational sign.