Alberta (State / Territory) (Geographic Keyword)
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This is an abstract from the "Arctic Pasts: Dimensions of Change" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeology in Inuit Nunangat (northern Canada) has a long and varied history of interactions between Inuit communities and "southern" researchers. This paper is about one long-standing example of a successful relationship between an Inuit organization, the Pitquhirnikkut Ilihautiniq / Kitikmeot Heritage Society (PI/KHS) of Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, and...
“Place for a Walrus to Haul Out”: Marine Mammals and Polynya Archaeology in Northern Foxe Basin, Nunavut, Arctic Canada (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Across Inuit Nunangat (the traditional Inuit territories of what is now Canada), the Little Ice Age (LIA) climate change episode likely resulted in significant changes in seasonal sea-ice abundance, thereby affecting relatively delicate coastal food webs. In this paper, we present the results-to-date of recent survey and excavation at Uglit (NfHd-1), a...
Planes, Chains and Snowmobiles: A Decade of Parks Canada Underwater Archaeology in the Canadian Arctic (2020)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "The Wrecks of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror National Historic Site of Canada: 2016-2019 Underwater Archaeological Investigations" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2008, Parks Canada’s Underwater Archaeology Team launched an Arctic search program, principally to locate the wrecks of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, the ships of Sir John Franklin’s 1845 expedition. Over the years the program blossomed to the point...
Plantation Archaeology in French Guiana: Results Investigations at Habitation Loyola (2016)
The Habitation Loyola (1668-1778) is a Jesuit mission and plantation located in French Guiana that was occupied between 1668 and 1768. The establishment was dedicated to the production of sugar, indigo, coffee, cocoa, and cotton to finance the evangelization of Amerindian groups in South America. This vast plantation site has been studied since 1996 through a partnership between Université Laval and French researchers. The latest excavations (2011-2015) have been conducted on the storehouse and...
Podcasting and Two-Eyed Seeing: Digital Practice, Community Engagement, and Reconciliation in Archaeological Discourse (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Capacity Building or Community Making? Training and Transitions in Digital Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Community or public archaeology has been the focus of professional effort and academic examination for decades. Most of this has a goal of creating public value, and takes the form of ‘outreach’ from a presumed disciplinary core, potentially downplaying conflict within the discipline. It is also a...
POLLEN, PHYTOLITH, STARCH, MACROFLORAL, ELEMENTAL COMPOSITION (XRF), AND ORGANIC RESIDUE (FTIR) ANALYSIS OF A STONE PIPE FROM THE JUNCTION SITE, DkPi-2, ALBERTA (2018)
A stone pipe fragment was recovered by Lifeways of Canada from the Junction Site (Site DkPi-2), near the junction of Hwy 2 and Crowsnest Highway, 3 km west of Fort MacLeod in southern Alberta, Canada. Given its association with other cultural materials, Lifeways of Canada suggest affiliation with the Old Women’s Phase. Lifeways of Canada submitted the stone pipe fragment to PaleoResearch for pollen, phytolith, starch, macrofloral, Fouriertransform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), and X-ray...
POLLEN, STARCH, PHYTOLITH, PROTEIN RESIDUE, AND ORGANIC RESIDUE (FTIR) ANALYSIS OF ARTIFACTS FROM SITES HhOu 70, HhOu 94, HhOu 95, HhOv 378, HhOv 380, HhOv 381, HhOv 384, HhOv 385, HhOv 387, HhOv 431, AND HhOv 432, NORTHEASTERN ALBERTA, CANADA (2008)
A total of 37 stone artifacts from sites HhOu 70, HhOu 94, HhOu 95, HhOv 378, HhOv 380, HhOv 381, HhOv 384, HhOv 385, HhOv 387, HhOv 431, and HhOv 432 of the FMA 145503S MI07 Project located in northeastern Alberta, Canada, were submitted for analysis. These artifacts were subjected to pollen, starch, phytolith, protein residue, and organic residue (FTIR) analysis, depending on their likely function. The goal of this study is to better understand possible plant and animal remains that may have...
POLLEN, STARCH, PROTEIN, AND ORGANIC RESIDUE (FTIR) ANALYSIS, AND AMS RADIOCARBON DATING OF SAMPLES FROM SITE FJPI-162, ALBERTA, CANADA (2009)
Two fire broken rock fragments and an associated sediment sample were submitted for organic residue analysis, along with three bison bone fragments for AMS radiocarbon dating, and a single lithic tool for protein analysis from site FjPi-162, Alberta, Canada. Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) was used to examine organic residues from the fire broken rock and sediment samples. Organic residue analysis was performed first on the two fire broken rock samples to determine if they were...
The Porcupine Tail Site Complex and the Concentration of the Archaeological Record on Isolated Hills of Interior Alaska (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Archaeology of Alaska, the Gateway to the Americas" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The archaeological record in any landscape tends to be differentially concentrated on specific landforms, because such landforms favor both the recurrence of human activities over successive periods of time and the postdepositional preservation of their material traces. In this paper we present results from recent excavations at two...
Pottery and Potters in Quebec City in the 17th Century: An Archaeometric Study of Local Ceramic Production (2016)
In Quebec City, the local earthenware ceramic industry began around 1636 with the production of both bricks and pottery. While post excavation visual examination and comparison with established earthenware typologies often suggest European productions, we propose a microscopic examination using archaeometric analyses in order to identify the presence of local wares. A collection of 52 earthenware sherds from four sites in the region was selected for analysis. Tomodensitometry (CT-scanning) and...
Precontact and Historic Archaeology for the Seabed Remediation of Esquimalt Harbour, Esquimalt, BC. (2016)
Archaeological investigations of the seabed within Esquimalt Harbour and in advance of extensive seabed remediation have revealed archaeological evidence of human activity over millennia. Testing methodologies have included testing between the upper inter-tidal area and the subtidal areas to about 10 m water depth. Evidence of precontact use on landsurfaces that may have been exposed 7,000 years previously have included fragments of basketry. The port has been well known for the last 150...
Precontact Inuit Watercraft and the Hunter-Prey Actantial Hinge (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Negotiating Watery Worlds: Impacts and Implications of the Use of Watercraft in Small-Scale Societies" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Maritime harvesting from watercraft and sea ice was the foundation of precontact Inuit economy throughout the Eastern Arctic, and small watercraft also figured in locally important terrestrial caribou hunts. Boats were everywhere essential to work, travel, and trade during the open...
Precontact Native Copper Innovation in the North American Arctic, Subarctic, and Northwest Coast (2023)
This is an abstract from the "From Hard Rock to Heavy Metal: Metal Tool Production and Use by Indigenous Hunter-Gatherers in North America" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Precontact Indigenous copper technological practices within the North American Northwest vary along regional, cultural, and temporal axes. After being screened for smelted metals and alloys using pXRF compositional data, we identified multiple significant patterns of...
Prehistoric Hookworm and the Peopling of the Americas: Enhancing Theories Based on Paleoclimate Models and Pathogens (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Humans brought many things with them when they came to the Americas. This study focuses on hookworms and domesticated dogs to revise, constrain, or enhance theoretical models of when and how humans first came to the Americas. The hookworm life cycle is critically dependent upon the environmental conditions and proximity to suitable hosts. Its eggs leave...
Prehistoric Mobility Patterns and Geochemistry of FGV Toolstones at Slocan Narrows Pithouse Village and the Upper Columbia River Area (2017)
The work of Charlotte Beck and George T. Jones dramatically advanced toolstone provenance studies from how to conduct field survey, to how to prepare samples for laboratory analysis. Building on their pioneering work, this paper details the beginning of our efforts in sourcing fine-grained volcanic (FGV) toolstones in the Upper Columbia River area of the interior Pacific Northwest. Handheld portable x-ray fluorescence (HHpXRF) instrumentation was used to non-destructively analyze the FGV...
Preliminary Analysis of the Fauna from the McDonald Creek Site (2021)
This is an abstract from the "McDonald Creek and Blair Lakes: Late Pleistocene-Holocene Human Activity in the Tanana Flats of Central Alaska" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. McDonald Creek contains identifiable faunal remains from two primary climatic and cultural time periods: (1) a Younger-Dryas aged occupation, and (2) a pre-Clovis aged occupation dating to ca. 14,000 cal BP. The ca. 14,000 cal BP occupation contains most of the well-preserved...
A Preliminary Spatial Analysis of the Late Pleistocene Components at the McDonald Creek Site, Interior Alaska (2021)
This is an abstract from the "McDonald Creek and Blair Lakes: Late Pleistocene-Holocene Human Activity in the Tanana Flats of Central Alaska" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The McDonald Creek site (FAI-2043) is located about 30 miles south of Fairbanks, Alaska, in the Tanana Flats. Results of archaeological testing and excavations between 2013 and 2019 identified three distinct archaeological components, Components 1, 2, and 3 dating to about 13.8...
Preliminary Vertebrate Faunal Analysis of Hup’kisakuu7a (93T): Results from 2015 and 2016 Excavations (2017)
Excavations conducted at the site of Hup’kisakuu7a (93T), in partnership with the Tseshaht First Nation, unearthed a variety of fauna that merit zooarchaeological analysis. Unlike the major ancient village sites previously excavated, such as Ts’ishaa and Huu7ii, the shallow shell midden of 93T is representative of a small-scale site, potentially occupied over a long period of time, comparable to that of the aforementioned major sites. The faunal assemblage is small in comparison to those of...
Presenting the Past (1995)
This short article discusses historical interpretation in a public setting. Presented at Forward Into The Past XV in Kitchener, ON.
Prestige Foods and the Adoption of Pottery by Subarctic Foragers (2017)
In the last two millennia before European contact, pottery technology was adopted by foragers across much of the southern Canadian Boreal Forest in response to the spread of Woodland (~100 BC – AD 1700) cultural influence. However, the function and importance of pottery in these northern societies remains unclear due to a combination of poor organic preservation, thin and disturbed stratigraphy, and limited archaeological exploration. In this study, we summarize the results of food residue...
Prioritization Frameworks and Archaeological Decision-Making in a Changing North (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Climate and Heritage in the North Atlantic: Burning Libraries" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The impact of climate change on heritage sites is a subject that is discussed with increasing urgency in arctic archaeology. Frequently used metaphors like “burning libraries” or “ticking clocks” capture the visceral feeling of loss experienced by both archaeologists and Inuit communities who witness destructions firsthand....
PROTEIN AND ORGANIC RESIDUE (FTIR) ANALYSES OF SAMPLES FROM SITES HHOV 374, HHOV 506, HHOV 508, HHOV 512, HHOV 513, HHOV 514, HHOV515, HHOV 517, AND HHOV 520, MUSKEG RIVER MINE EXPANSION PROJECT, ALBERTA, CANADA (2012)
A total of 28 lithic artifacts were submitted for protein residue analysis from nine sites in close proximity from northeastern Alberta. In addition, 2 samples of fire broken rock were submitted for organic residue analysis using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR). These artifacts were recovered during archaeological survey work associated with the Muskeg River Mine Expansion Project. The project area is located approximately 60 km north of Fort McMurray. Protein and organic residue...
PROTEIN AND ORGANIC RESIDUE (FTIR) ANALYSIS OF LITHIC TOOLS FROM SITES HHOV 87 AND HHOV 200, ALBERTA, CANADA (2010)
Lithic tools recovered from sites HhOv 87 and HhOv 200, Alberta, Canada were submitted for protein and organic residue analysis. Samples were tested for organic residues using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR), and protein residues using cross-over immunoelectrophoresis.
PROTEIN AND ORGANIC RESIDUE (FTIR) ANALYSIS OF SAMPLES FROM SITE FBPI-8, ALBERTA, CANADA (2012)
A lithic tool and a fire-broken rock sample from site FbPi-8 in southern Alberta, Canada were submitted for protein and organic residue analysis, respectively. The fire-broken rock was tested for organic residues using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR). Protein residue analysis offers insight into materials processed with the lithic tool, while organic residue analysis provides information concerning the compounds that were extracted from the firecracked rock. Information concerning...
PROTEIN AND ORGANIC RESIDUE (FTIR) ANALYSIS OF SAMPLES FROM SITE FDOT 32, HARDISTY, ALBERTA, CANADA (2010)
Site FdOt 32, situated near Hardisty, Alberta, Canada, was occupied approximately 1000 RCYBP, according to radiocarbon dates. A projectile point, three ceramic fragments, and one hearth fill sample were submitted for protein and organic residue analysis. Ceramics and hearth fill was tested for organic residues using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR). A projectile point was tested for protein residue using cross-over immunoelectrophoresis (CIEP).