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Fall 2015
This dissertation explores the traditional marine management systems of the Northern Coast Salish in British Columbia, Canada. Combining traditional knowledge with archaeological data, this dissertation seeks to understand the long-term history of ancestral Northern Coast Salish marine resource...
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Spring 2024
This community-based research project demonstrates how the alpine landscapes of Lingit Aaní (northwest British Columbia and southeast Alaska) have been shaped by Lingít oral histories. Decades of ice patch archaeology in the southern Yukon have revealed a highly developed ice patch hunting...
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Fall 2021
While research has been done in North America on the uses of various near surface geophysical techniques on european settler sites, the pre-contact sites of the First Nations people are often seen as too difficult to interpret separately from the environment they are in. This research set out to...
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Seal or No Seal? A Bayesian (FRUITS) Modeling of Hunter-gatherer Diet in the Little Sea Micro-Region of Lake Baikal
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The non-specific nature of stable isotope analysis limits interpretive assessments of diet to relative contributions of food sources. In an attempt to address this issue, scholars have focused on mixing models as a potential avenue to provide quantifiable measurements of dietary source...
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1973
During project planning, Syncrude Canada Ltd. became concerned for possible archaeological resources which might be endangered by its development in Athabasca Tar Sands Lease #17. Proposals were solicited by Syncrude for assistance in conducting a survey of the Lease #17 area to determine its...
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1974
The significance of the Beaver Creek Quarry site and the kinds of information we may expect to glean from it may now be enumerated. With reference to the recently published results of archaeological reconnaissance conducted on the Tar Sands Syncrude Lease #17, it was noted that over 67% of the...
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2016-10-11
SSHRC Awarded IG 2017: A landscape archaeological approach to studying early human occupation of the Iringa Region, Tanzania. Previous research in Iringa has revealed occupations from the critical period for the evolution of our species. This project's goal is to explain the data from the site...
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The Late Holocene White River Ash East Eruption and Pre-contact Culture Change in Northwest North America
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The White River Ash East eruption of A.D. 846-848 blanketed portions of Subarctic Yukon and Northwest Territories, Canada in volcanic ash. This dissertation examines impacts of the eruption on pre-contact hunter-gatherer social relationships. The main bodies of data on which interpretations are...
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The People Left Behind: Four Victims of the Destruction of the Late Bronze Age City of Azekah
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In the Late Bronze Age, the city of Azekah was a regional centre that probably prospered under the sponsorship of Egyptian rulers. However, the city was destroyed in the late 12th Century BCE by an unknown cause and abandoned thereafter. Building T2/627 was destroyed in this event: the building...
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The use of stone during the Middle Stone Age at Magubike Rockshelter, Tanzania: an examination of economy and function
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This dissertation is primarily an examination of the ways in which Middle Stone Age (MSA) hunter-gatherers from Magubike Rockshelter, Iringa Region, Tanzania, acquired, prioritized, transformed, and used stone as tools. The results of several analyses detailed within indicate that MSA peoples in...