Department of Archaeology
Simon Fraser University
2000
ANNUAL REPORT
Department of Archaeology
Simon Fraser University
2000 Annual Report
Editor:
Associate Editors:
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D. Erle Nelson
Ross Jamieson
Dongya Yang
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The Annual Report is a Departmental Publication
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table of contents
Chair’s Report. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Department Organization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Faculty and Staff. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Graduate Students . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Committees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Graduate Programme. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Graduate Programme Committee Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Graduate Degrees Awarded . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Graduate Departmental and External Awards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Undergraduate Programme. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Undergraduate Programme Committee Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Honours Theses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Undergraduate Awards and Prizes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Undergraduate Courses Offered 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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First Nations Studies Programme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Field Schools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
The 9th SCES-SFU Archaeology Field School, Kamloops, B.C. . . . . . . . . .
Fiji Field School 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
The North Shore Field School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Faculty Research. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
David Burley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Roy L. Carlson (Emeritus) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Catherine D’Andrea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Jonathan Driver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Knut Fladmark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Biruté Galdikas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Brian Hayden . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Philip Hobler. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Ross Jamieson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Dana Lepofsky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Diane Lyons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Erle Nelson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
George Nicholas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Richard Schutler, Jr. (Emeritus) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Mark Skinner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Dongya Yang. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Eldon Yellowhorn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Alan McMillan (Adjunct) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Research Grants Awarded . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Archaeology Laboratories Report. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Publications (2000) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Publications (in press). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
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chair’s report
T
he year 2000 ushered in many
important changes and events for
the Department of Archaeology.
Foremost among these was the elevation
of Archaeology Professor Jon Driver to
Dean of Graduate Studies. Jon has been
one of the most active members of the
Department since his appointment in 1982,
and his energy and expertise will be sorely
missed. Jon is maintaining his research laboratory in the department, and he will continue to supervise graduate students and
teach the occasional course over the tenure
of his Deanship. In September of 2000,
we also welcomed two new faculty members to our fold. They are Dr. Dongya
Yang, a physical anthropologist specializing in ancient DNA with research interests in China, and Dr. Ross Jamieson, a
historical archaeologist with current field
work in Ecuador. Both have established
research careers, both already hold three
year SSHRC research grants, and both are
exciting additions to the faculty. A joint
appointment between Archaeology and
First Nations Studies also was approved
for start-up in September 2001. This now
has been filled by Eldon Yellowhorn
who, previously, acted in the position as
a non-continuing term instructor. Eldon’s
research and teaching interests are in indigenous archaeology and First Nations heritage, thereby adding a set of unique interests and skills to our undergraduate and
graduate programs.
As Department chair, I congratulate Dr.
George Nicholas on being granted tenure
and for promotion to Associate Professor.
I also congratulate Dr. Diane Lyons for
her promotion from Lecturer to Senior
Lecturer. George and Diane have accomplished research and teaching records and
they are fully deserving. Several archaeology faculty were awarded research grants
in 2000 and they, too, deserve credit. In
particular, I am especially pleased to note
that Dongya Yang was successful in having SFU approve his grant proposal to the
Canadian Foundation for Innovation New
Opportunities Fund. This money, if awarded, would allow the Archaeology department to develop a state of the art ancient
DNA laboratory complete with automated
sequencer. We are a small department by
numbers but we once again ranked among
the top three programs in Arts for cumulative research grant totals. I also congratulate Dr. Brian Hayden, Dr. Ross Jamieson
and Dr. Alan McMillan for their publication of books this past year.
From an administrative perspective,
the year 2000 was busy. Dr. Catherine
D’Andrea, Graduate Committee Chair, initiated a review of the Department’s Ph.D.
and M.A. requirements. As a consequence
several changes have been approved by the
Department to help students complete their
studies in a more efficient and timely fashion. The work of Cathy and her committee
(Dr. Ross Jamieson and Dr. Mark Skinner)
was outstanding and deserving of recognition. This year also saw the Department
prepare a First Nations Studies discussion
paper from which the program on the
Burnaby campus will be redesigned.
Drafted by myself, Dr. George Nicholas
and Eldon Yellowhorn, it proposes that
First Nations Studies focus its undergraduate coursework on the field of Indigenous
Traditional Knowledge and Ethnoscience.
Discussions with First Nations communities and other interest groups have been
supportive and are on-going. Calendar
and course changes are scheduled for
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chair’s report
implementation in September of 2002.
During this past year, the Department further submitted to the Dean’s Office a
self assessment and detailed three year
plan (2001–2003) for Archaeology, First
Nations Studies and the Museum of
Archaeology and Ethnology. I have a debt
of gratitude to all of the individuals who
helped in the preparation of these documents.
Integrated programs within the department include Archaeology Press, the
Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology,
and the Archaeology Labs. Archaeology
Press, under the guidance of Emeritus
Professor Roy Carlson, was successful in
publishing a major volume on Dr. Brian
Hayden’s work at Keatley Creek; two additional volumes are planned over the next
couple of years. The Museum Director, Dr.
Barbara Winters, has continued to maintain
on-site exhibits but has begun to place a
greater emphasis of Museum resources and
efforts into on-line interpretation and display through web-site construction. This
has proven a success with over 10,000
hits a week now being registered to
the Museum home page. Staff of the
Archaeology Labs also continued to work
hard in keeping up with demands of
the different laboratory courses, in maintaining department reference collections
and equipment inventory, and in fulfilling
department responsibilities for long-term
storage of excavated collections in our
charge. They also have taken over full
responsibility for academic computing
within the department. Faculty, including
myself, are forever grateful to Andrew
Barton and Shannon Wood for their continuous help in that respect.
Finally, but not least, I acknowledge
the many students who have registered
as majors, taken courses in Archaeology,
or are engaged in graduate studies in the
department. Our goal is to provide these
students with the best training that they
may receive in an Archaeology program,
and we will continue to strive for that
excellence in the coming year.
Dr. David Burley
Department Chair
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department organization
Faculty and Staff
University Appointments
Chair & Director First Nations Studies:
Graduate Programme Chair:
Undergraduate Programme Chair:
Burley, Dr. D.V.
D’Andrea, Dr. A.C.
Lepofsky, Dr. D.
Faculty
Adjunct Professors
Burley, Dr. D.V. (Professor)
D’Andrea, Dr. A.C. (Professor)
Driver, Dr. J.C. (Professor, Dean of
Graduate Studies)
Fladmark, Dr. K.R. (Professor)
Galdikas, Dr. B.M.F. (Professor)
Hayden, Dr. B.D. (Professor)
Hobler, P.M. (Associate Professor)
Jamieson, Dr. R.W. (Assistant Professor)
Lepofsky, Dr. D. (Assistant Professor)
Nance, Dr. J.D. (Professor)
Nelson, Dr. D.E. (Professor)
Nicholas, Dr. G.P. (Associate Professor)
Skinner, Dr. M.F. (Professor)
Yang, Dr. D. (Assistant Professor)
Yellowhorn, E. (Instructor)
McMillan, Dr. A.D.
Sutton, Dr. A.D.
Professors Emeriti
Carlson, Dr. R.L.
Shutler, Dr. R. Jr.
Senior Lecturer
Associate Members
D’Auria, Dr. J.M. (Chemistry)
Huntley, Dr. D.J. (Physics)
Mathewes, Dr. R.W. (Biology)
Staff
Banerjee, R. (Secretary Chair/Graduate)
Barton, A. (Lab Manager)
Przybyla, L. (Secretary)
Sullivan, A. (Departmental Assistant)
Takahashi, C. (Isotope Lab Manager)
Winter, Dr. B. (Museum Curator)
Wood, S. (Laboratory Technician)
Post-Doctoral Fellows
Blackham, Dr. M.
Peacock, Dr. S.
Richards, Dr. M.
Lyons, Dr. D.
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department organization
Graduate Students
Adams, Ronald
An ethnoarchaeological study of feasting in Tana Toraja,
Indonesia. M.A. programme.
Arnold, Tom
The feasibility of the ice free corridor as an early human migration
route during the Late Wisconsin Glaciation. Ph.D. programme.
Barton, Andrew
A Study of the Molluscan Remains From Lapita Period Sites in the
Kingdom of Tonga. Ph.D. programme.
Brand, Michael
Transient Life in Dawson City, Yukon, during the Klondike Gold
Rush. Ph.D. programme.
Brown, Douglas
Middle and Late Period Sociopolitical Changes in the Fraser
Valley, Southeastern British Columbia. Ph.D. programme.
Budhwa, Rick
Catastrophic Paleoenvironmental Events and Native Oral
Traditions of the Pacific Northwest. M.A. programme.
Chatan, Robbin
Late 19th Century British Colonialism in the South Pacific.
Ph.D. programme.
Christensen, Tina
M.A. programme.
Commisso, Rob
Archaeological Prospection through Foliar δ15N values; An
Assessment. M.A. programme.
Copp, Stan
Aspects of Similkameen Prehistory. Ph.D. programme.
Crucefix, Lanna
M.A. programme.
Delgado, James
Ph.D. programme.
Dewing, Natalie
M.A. programme.
Huculak, Shauna
M.A. programme.
Karpiak, Monica
GIS Modelling of Pre-Contact Land Use in Clayoquot Sound.
M.A. programme.
Kessy, Emanuel
Ph.D. programme.
Lindsay, Corene
M.A. programme.
Marshall, Amanda
M.A. programme.
McLellan, Judith
Archaeology and First Nations' legal issues in B.C. M.A. programme.
Oakes, Nicole
Changing Mortuary Patterns: Prehistoric mound building among
the Central Coast Salish of southwestern B.C. Ph.D. programme.
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department organization
Park, Julie
M.A. programme.
Rahemtulla, Farid
Ph.D. programme.
Ramsay, Jennifer
Archaeobotany of Classical Urban sites in the Near East.
Ph.D. programme.
Rawlings, Tiffany
Origins of Complex Social Organization, Household Archaeology,
Architectural Theory, and Pacific Rim. Ph.D. programme.
Sandgathe, Dennis
The Levallois Reduction Technique in a Design Theory
Framework. Ph.D. programme.
Sawatzky, Roland
The Use of Social Space in Early Mennonite Housebarns of
Southern Manitoba. Ph.D. programme.
Sharp, Karyn
Return Rates, Food Preservation and It's Implications For Storage.
Ph.D. programme.
Smith, Cameron M.
Usewear Analysis of a Protohistoric Lower Columbia River
Chinookan Plankhouse Assemblage. Ph.D. programme.
Spurgeon, Terry
A critical review of the linguistics, history and ethnography of
wapato (Sagittaria latifolia) use in Katzie traditional territory. M.A.
Tarcan, Carmen
Zooarchaeology of Zuni Pueblo. Ph.D. programme.
Tsukamoto, Suyoko The periodicity of enamel hypoplasia in the bonobo (P. paniscus)
through the examination of microincremental structures
(i.e. perikymata) on the tooth crown surface. M.A. programme.
Will, Mike
Lateral Cycling in Historic Industrial Context. M.A. programme.
Woodward, Robyn
Feudalism or Emergent Agrarian Capitalsim: the Archaeology of
an early 16th Century sugar Mill at Sevilla La Nueva, Jamaica.
Ph.D. programme.
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department organization
Committees
Department Tenure Committee
Chair: Burley, D.V.
Members: Driver, J.
Fladmark, K.
Hayden B.
Hutchinson, I. (Geography)
Lepofsky, D.
Skinner, M.
Appointment Search Committee
Chair: Burley, D.V.
Members: D’Andrea, A.C.
Hobler, P.M.
Lepofsky, D.
Graduate Programme Committee
Chair: D’Andrea, A.C.
Members: Driver, J.
Jamieson, R.
Skinner, M.
Brand, M. (grad rep.)
Undergraduate Programme
Committee
Chair: Lepofsky, D.
Members: Lyons, D.
Sullivan, A. (D.A.)
Morin, J. (undergrad rep)
First Nations/Archaeology Committee
Chair: Burley, D.V.
Members: Nicholas, G.P.
Annual Report Committee
Chair: Nelson, D.E.
Members: Jamieson, R.
Yang, D.
Library Committee Representative
Burley, D.V.
Research Liaison – Faculty of Arts
Burley, D.V.
Undergraduate Archaeology
Student Society
President: Clouthier, T.
Archaeology Graduate Caucus
President: Chatan, R.
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graduate programme
Graduate Programme
Graduate Programme Committee Report
In the year 2000 the Graduate
Programme Committee instituted a comprehensive review of the Archaeology
Department graduate programme. This process was designed to take place in two
phases: the first involved relatively minor
changes, while the second included more
substantive alterations to the graduate programme. The initial series of changes was
designed to update the departmental calendar entry, bringing it more in line with current practice with respect to course offerings and descriptions. These revisions were
approved by Senate in June 2000. The second phase involved more substantial programme changes. Several proposed revisions were developed from a departmental-wide survey conducted early in
the year which canvassed faculty, staff,
post-doctoral fellows, sessional instructors,
graduate, and undergraduate students on
all aspects of the graduate programme.
This process resulted in significant revisions to the M.A. programme and to
the structure of the Ph.D. comprehensive
exams, among other changes. The revisions were approved at the Departmental
level in November 2000, and are scheduled
to be reviewed by Senate in 2001.
Over the past year, our graduate
students have been undertaking active
thesis-related fieldwork at sites around the
world, including British Columbia, Yukon,
Alberta, Ontario, Oregon, Colorado,
Bolivia, Jamaica, France, Israel, Tanzania,
Vietnam, and Fiji. In 2000, 4 new students
were admitted to the Graduate Programme
(2 M.A., 2 Ph.D.), while 8 successfully
defended theses (7 M.A., 1 Ph.D.). As of
late December, 2000, total graduate enrolment was 33 (15 M.A., 18 Ph.D.).
Catherine D’Andrea
Graduate Programme Chair
Graduate Degrees Awarded
Ph. D.
MacLeod, Carol
The Cerebellum and Its Part in the Evolution of the
Hominoid Brain.
M. A.
Franck, Ian
An Archaeological Investigation of the Galene Lakes
Area in the Skagit Range of the North Cascade
Mountain, Skagit Valley Park, B.C.
Lyons, Natasha
Investigating Ancient Socioeconomy in the Sto:lo Territory:
A Paleoethnobotanical Analysis of the Scowlitz Site,
Southwestern B.C.
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graduate programme
M. A. continued
Reimer, Rudolf
Extreme Archaeology: The Results of the Investigations at
High Elevation Regions in the Northwest.
Seip, Lisa
Early Nuxalk Masks.
Wollstonecroft, Michele
The Fruit of Their Labour: A Palaeoethnobotanical Study of
Site EeRb 140, A Multi-Component Open-Air
Archaeological Site on the B.C. Plateau.
Wright, Kristine
Mortuary Patterning: A Burial Analysis from Northwest
Coast Archaeological Excavations.
Yoshida, Sara
The Replication of Depressed, Localized Skull Fractures: An
Experiment Using Sus domesticus as a Model for Human
Forensic Trauma.
Graduate Departmental and External Awards Received
Brand, Michael
Northern Scientific Research Training Grant
Brown, Doug
President’s Research Stipend, Department Research/Travel Stipend
Budhwa, Rick
Graduate Fellowship
Chatan, Robbin
Graduate Fellowship
Crucefix, Lanna
Graduate Fellowship
Dewing, Natalie
Kessy, Emanuel
Department Research/Travel Stipend
Graduate Fellowship, President’s Research Stipend,
Wenner-Gren Developing Countries Training Fellowship
Marshall, Amanda
Graduate Fellowship
Oaks, Nicole
President’s Research Stipend
Rahemtulla, Farid
Graduate Fellowship, Ph.D. Stipend
Sandgathe, Dennis
Graduate Fellowship, Ph.D. Stipend
Sawatzky, Roland
Graduate Fellowship
Smith, Cameron
President’s Research Stipend
Spurgeon, Terry
Graduate Fellowship, Department Research/Travel Stipend
Tarcan, Carmen
CD Nelson Memorial, SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship
Tsukamoto, Suyoko
Graduate Fellowship
Will, Michael
Northern Scientific Research Training Grant
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undergrad programme
Undergraduate Programme
Undergraduate Programme Committee Report
Our undergraduate programme was quite
active during the past year with curriculum
planning, new course delivery and a lively
group of dedicated students. For 1999/2000
the undergraduate student body consisted
of 146 approved majors, joint majors
and extended minors, 50 of whom successfully completed degree requirements. The
Archaeology Student Society (ASS) held
weekly meetings, put on presentations of
projects in which the students have participated, and organized a number of social
events. The ASS has produced a brochure
on the Archaeology programme to be distributed at student orientation days.
We are currently implementing several
changes to undergraduate curriculum planning to increase enrolments and attract
additional students to the program. The
most notable of these is an attempt to
develop a Cultural Resource Management
certificate programme to better train our
students for archaeological resource management jobs. To receive the certificate,
students will enrol in a required set of
classes and do an internship with an agency
doing heritage resource management. This
programme has the support of several heritage resource agencies. We also have and
will continue to implement new courses as
a result of recent appointments and identified student needs. For 2000, this included new classes in molecular archaeology
and Archaeocomputing with a GIS course
scheduled for development in spring 2001.
Dr. Dana Lepofsky
Undergraduate Programme Chair
Honours Theses Completed
Rossi, Diana
The Etiological Origin and Archaeological Significance of
Dental Pulp Stones.
Tyron, Anouk
The Inclusion of Aboriginal Peoples in Archaeological Resource
Management in Canada: A Case Study from Nunavut.
Undergraduate Awards and Prizes Received
Diagnault, Carmen
Ingrid Nystrom Archaeology Award
Phillips, Lori
Chair’s Essay Prize for “The Contested Terrain of the Past: The
Role of NAGPRA and Proposed Amendments”
Skinner, Matt
Richard P. Brolly Prize for “Dental Asymmetry: A New Method
for Studying Austalopithecine Extinction”
Tryon, Anouk
Brian Williamson Memorial Award in Archaeology
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courses offered
Undergraduate Courses Offered in 2000
Spring 2000-1
100-3 Ancient Peoples and Places (Correspondence)
100-3 Ancient Peoples and Places
131-3 Human Origins (Evening course)
131-3 Human Origins (in Shuswap)
200-3 Special Topics: The Vikings
201-3 Introduction to Archaeology
272-3 Archaeology of the Old World (in Shuswap)
273-3 Archaeology of the New World (Evening course)
301-3 Prehistoric and Indigenous Art (Evening course)
311-5 Archaeological Dating
335-5 Special Topics: Directed Lab Research
340-5 Zooarchaeology
344-3 Primate Behaviour
365-3 Ecological Archaeology
373-5 Human Osteology
376-5 Quantitative Methods in Archaeology
378-3 Pacific Northwest North America
390-5 Archaeobotany
438-5 Geoarchaeology
442-5 Forensic Anthropology
471-5 Archaeological Theory
471-5 Archaeological Theory (in Shuswap)
479-3, 480-5, 498-5, 499-5 Directed Readings, Lab,
Honors Reading and Essay
Brian Hayden
Diane Lyons
Biruté Galdikas
George Nicholas
Erle Nelson
Jonathan Driver
George Nicholas
Eldon Yellowhorn
Barbara Winter
Erle Nelson
Tracy Rogers
Jonathan Driver
Biruté Galdikas
Dana Lepofsky
Mark Skinner
Jack Nance
Dana Lepofsky
Catherine D’Andrea
Knut Fladmark
Mark Skinner
Diane Lyons
George Nicholas
Various
Summer 2000-2
100-3 Ancient Peoples and Places (Evening course)
105-3 The Evolution of Technology
332-3 Special Topics: Mycenaean Archaeology (in Greece)
Brian Hayden
Brian Hayden
Sophia Zaharatou
(SFU Hellenic Studies)
335-5 Special Topics: Field Methods (in Fiji)
Phil Hobler
370-3 Western Pacific Prehistory (in Fiji)
David Burley
GS 410-4 Fijian Culture & History (General Studies course in Fiji) David Burley
372-5 Material Culture Analysis (in Shuswap)
George Nicholas
435-6 Field Work Practicum (in Shuswap)
George Nicholas
433-3, 434-3 and 435-6 SFU Fieldschool excavation of the
Strathcona Park Site, Indian Arm
Dana Lepofsky
479-3, 480-5 & 499-5 Directed Readings, Lab and Honor’s Essay
(in Shuswap)
George Nicholas
479-3 and 480-5 Directed Readings and Directed Lab
Various
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courses offered
Fall 2000-3
100-3 Ancient Peoples and Places
131-3 Human Origins
201-3 Introduction to Archaeology (in Shuswap)
223-3 The Prehistory of Canada
226-3 The Prehistory of Religion (Correspondence)
226-3 The Prehistory of Religion (Evening course)
272-3 Archaeology of the Old World
272-3 Archaeology of the Old World (in Shuswap)
273-3 Archaeology of the New World (in Shuswap)
331-3 Special Topics: Molecular Bioarchaeology
332-3 Special Topics: The Vikings (Evening course)
333-3/894-5 Special Topics: Archaeological Computing
334-3 Special Topics: First Nations Issues in Archaeology
(Evening course)
335-5 Special Topics: Archaeological Conservation
336-3 Special Topics: Prehistoric and Indigenous Art:
Northwest Coast Indian Art (Evening course)
372-5 Material Culture Analysis
374-3 Prehistory of South and East Asia
377-5 Historical Archaeology
432-5 Advanced Physical Anthropology
471-5 Archaeological Theory
479-3, 480-5, 498-5 and 499-5 Directed Reading, Lab,
Honor’s Reading and Essay
Phys 181-3 Introduction to Physical Science in Archaeology
SFU Archaeology
Diane Lyons
Mark Skinner
Nicole Oakes
Knut Fladmark
Brian Hayden
Brian Hayden
Catherine D’Andrea
George Nicholas
George Nicholas
Dongya Yang
Erle Nelson
David Burley
Eldon Yellowhorn
Barbara Winter
Alan McMillan
Brian Hayden
Catherine D’Andrea
Ross Jamieson
Mark Skinner
Diane Lyons
Various
Erle Nelson
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first nations studies
First Nations Studies Programme
Detail
of memorial
pole on Grief
Island.
Below left:
Pendants
from Namu,
B.C.
Below right:
B.C. petroglyph.
F
or administrative purposes the
Department of Archaeology is the
host for First Nations Studies on the
Burnaby campus. Originally designed by
the Sewepemc Cultural Education Society,
First Nations Studies was part of the curriculum offered on the Kamloops campus.
The success of these courses generated the
necessary enthusiasm to launch them as
part of a programme here in Burnaby. First
Nations Studies is a minor programme,
intended to complement the work that
students pursue in their major. First
Nations Studies is an interdisciplinary
approach to
studying the
condition of
aboriginal
people, with a
particular focus
on traditional
knowledge in
aboriginal
thought.
Heiltsuk
house post at
an abandoned
village on
Troup Passage
(locally called
Deer Pass)
northwest of
Wasglisla.
The following First Nations Studies
courses have been offered in the last year.
FNST 101: The Culture, Languages and
Origins of Canada’s First Peoples; FNST
201: Native Perspectives on History;
FNST 301 Issues in Applied First Nations
Studies Research; FNST 401: Aboriginal
Rights and Governmental Relations. A
new course will
be offered in
2001–1 which is
FNST 402: The
Discourse of
Native Peoples.
Together these
courses form the core of the FNST minor.
Additional courses from sociology/anthropology, linguistics, history, criminology
and archaeology are cross-listed for credit
in First Nations Studies. Eldon Yellowhorn
and Nola Markie were the instructors for
these courses.
Eldon Yellowhorn
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field schools
The 9th SCES-SFU Archaeology Field School
Kamloops, B.C.
SCES-SFU Archaeology Field School 2000
T
he 9th SCES-SFU Archaeology
Field School was held on the
Kamloops Indian Reserve in May
and June. Twenty-two students were
enrolled. For the first time, provincial
RIC certification was offered as a component of the field school. The Field School
is part of an ongoing research project that
is investigating long-term land use patterns in the region. It is also an expression
of our commitment to working with the
Kamloops Indian Band.
This year was the final season of excavation at two sites that we have been
excavating over the past six years. These
sites, EeRb 144 and 140, each have produced substantial evidence of intermittent
occupation and use over the past 7,000
years, and possibly longer. They are located on adjoining terrace remnants above
the South Thompson River. Both are
located within land being developed as
part of the large, Sun Rivers housing
project. The range of materials recovered
from these sites spans the entire sequence
of known Middle and Late Period artifacts, including Lehman, Lochnore, and
Nesikep points. In fact, data from these
sites are expected to refine the local
chronology and culture history of the
area, given the thousands of artifacts and
well-preserved organic remains recovered. Faunal remains are extensive and
include thousands of animal, bird, and
fish bones; freshwater mussel shell; birch
bark; a portion of a bird feather; and other
organic materials. More than eight thousand soil samples have been collected and
processed by flotation to recover seeds
and other remains. A suite of radiocarbon
dates from the sites in the area is currently being run. Detailed studies are now
underway on artifacts, debitage, features,
and other aspects of our excavations.
Dr. George Nicholas
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field schools
Fiji Field School 2000
Fiji Field
School in transit
from island of
Ovalau, July 2000.
Below left:
Excavations at
Sigatoka Sand
Dunes, June 2000.
Below right:
Excavations at
Nasova House
British Colonial
Offices, 1874–1880,
Levuka, Fiji.
T
he South Pacific archaeology field
school was held for its third time
in the Republic of Fiji from May
through July. Sponsored by International
and Exchange Student Services at SFU,
the field school operates in partnership
with the University of the South Pacific
(Suva) and with cooperation of the Fiji
Museum and the National Trust for
Fiji. David Burley and Phil Hobler
served as program instructors with Robbin
Chatan, Inge
Dahm and
Margaret
Purser
(Sonoma
State
University)
providing infield supervisory assistance. Ten student
participants were registered for three
courses — Techniques of Field Inquiry
(Arch 334), Pacific Western Prehistory
(Arch 370)
and Fijian
Culture and
History (Gen.
Studies 410).
Classes
included a
combination
of lectures on
the USP campus and in the field, field trips to sites and
villages in Fiji, as well as survey and excavation on prehistoric and historic archaeological materials at the Sigatoka Sand
Dunes on the Coral Coast of Viti Levu
and at Nasova House in Levuka on the
island of Ovalau. Despite an unexpected
political coup on May 19, and a final airlift
from Ovalau in early July, classes were
completed as scheduled.
Dr. David Burley
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field schools
The North Shore Field School
Jesse Morin drawing
stratigraphic layers of
a trench.
Students
record the exact
location of each
artifact collected
from the beach.
D
uring June and July of 2000,
the SFU field school conducted
archaeological survey and excavation on the North Shore. The fieldwork
was part of a larger collaborative project
with the Tsleil-Waututh First Nation,
whose traditional territory includes Indian
Arm and Burrard Inlet. The field school
team was led by Dana Lepofsky and
Monica Karpiak, and included 10 SFU
students, 3 UBC students (who enrolled
in SFU for the summer), and two TsleilWaututh First Nation community members.
We had three main goals for the project: 1) to educate the public about archaeology and Tsleil-Waututh history; 2) to
teach the students to work with communities; and 3) to teach the students archaeological survey and excavation methods.
The majority of the summer was spent
excavating the “Strathcona Park site”
located on a small, protected bay in Deep
Cove. We worked in the portion of the
site which is situated on a neighbourhood
park. It was ideally suited for public outreach. A Tsleil-Waututh community member and a member of our crew gave tours
of our site to hundreds of school children
and other visitors. We produced artifact
teaching kits, pamphlets, and posters that
the Tsleil-Waututh will continue to use
in their outreach programs throughout the
year. Funding for the public education
component of the project came from
Heritage Trust and Global Forest.
Little was known about the Strathcona
Park site prior to our work there. Our
excavations revealed three major occupations – a settlement dating to about 3000
years ago, a summer village dating to
about 300 years ago, and an historic logging camp, dating to sometime in the
early 20th century. Our mapping of the
site suggest it is probably one of the largest archaeological sites on Indian Arm
and Burrard Inlet. The analysis of the
material from the site is on-going, but a
range of tools, plant, animal, and shell
remains were recovered.
Our archaeological surveys were largely
limited to the current Tsleil-Waututh
Reserve. We revisited previously recorded
sites along Burrard Inlet, but were disappointed to see that much of the sites
have eroded away as a result of recent
barge traffic. Similarities in stone tool
materials found on the Reserve and at the
Strathcona Park site may indicate an economic connection between the two areas.
Dr. Dana Lepofsky
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faculty research
David Burley
Field school and
Fijian crew, Sigatoka
Sand Dunes, 2000.
Below left: Lori White
conserving Sigatoka pot
in SFU lab.
Below right: Lapita
excavations at Ha’ateiho
Tongatapu, Kingdom of
Tonga, 1999.
F
ield Research activities in the summer of 2000 were held in conjunction with the Fiji field school. This
initially involved three weeks of excavation and survey on prehistoric components at the Sigatoka Sand Dune site on
the coral coast of Viti Levu, Fiji, followed
by two additional weeks of historic site
survey testing and excavations in Levuka,
the early colonial capital of Fiji on the
island of Ovalau. Field and laboratory
supervision was assisted by Phil Hobler,
Robbin Chatan and Lori White. In the
laboratory at SFU, a
major restoration project on a series of
late Lapita (2450 BP)
earthenware pots was
completed in the
spring of 2000 under
the supervision of Lori
White and Andrew
Barton. These have since been returned
for display at the Fiji Museum in Suva.
Cataloguing, curation and analysis of
collections excavated in the South
Pacific Kingdom
of Tonga in the
summer of 1999,
and from
Sigatoka in 2000,
were also
completed under
the supervision of
Lori White and
Alice Story.
Finally, Andrew Barton, Beth Weathers
and I are developing an exhibit on
first settlement of the Tongan archipelago
for installation in the Tongan National
Museum in June 2001. Over the past
year, conference papers were delivered
at the Society for Historical Archaeology
Meetings in Quebec City and at Pacific
2000 (Easter Island Foundation) in
Hawaii. Various publications on the
Tongan and Fijian field work programs
are in press or in preparation.
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faculty research
Roy L. Carlson (Emeritus)
C
ontinued analyzing data and organizing and editing Vol. 1 of the
Pender Island Excavations that will
be published by Archaeology Press in the
coming year
Continued as Managing Editor of
Archaeology Press with the publication of
the first two volumes on Keatley Creek
organized and edited by Brian Hayden.
Attended the following conferences:
Canadian Archaeological Association,
Ottawa, May 3–7, 2000; Paper Presented:
Nenana and Early Northwest Coast
Similarities: Apples and Oranges or
Oranges and Tangerines? (with P.M.
Hobler) and Society for California
Archaeology, Riverside, April 10–21;
Invited Presentation: The Northwest Coast
during the Pleistocene/Holocene
Transition:High Road or Hindrance?
Catherine D’Andrea
Ploughing near
Aksum Ethiopia,
1997, photo credit,
Dr. A.C. D’Andrea.
A 3500 year-old pearl millet
grain identified from a site in Ghana,
representing the earliest known occurrence of this cereal in sub-Saharan
Africa (D’Andrea et al. in press).
C
urrent research focuses on ancient
and modern traditional farming
societies of sub-Saharan Africa.
Ethnoarchaeological fieldwork is underway in northern Ethiopia with Dr. Diane
Lyons (SFU), where we are examining
aspects of Tigrayan non-mechanised farming life that may help us to better
understand early agrarian societies in the
region. In northern Ethiopia, I am collaborating with archaeologists from Boston
University and the University of Naples on
archaeological excavations relating to the
Kingdom of Aksum (500 BC–AD 1000).
In northern Ghana, I am working with a
University of South Carolina excavation of
a Kintampo culture village site (3500 BP).
In both collaborative projects, my role is to
examine ancient plant remains in an effort
to understand the nature and development
of early agricultural systems in these areas.
Machine-assisted
flotation of Kazahari
sediments. Photo by Y.
Tsubakisaka, Hokkaido
University, 1989.
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faculty research
Jonathan Driver
Surface
collecting
modern fauna
I
was awarded a SSHRC grant of
$52,900 for zooarchaeological studies in the American Southwest, from
June 2000 to May 2003. Much of this
funding will be used to hire students as
research assistants. I expect two or three
graduate student theses to result from the
work. This is a continuation of a longterm study of fauna from northern Anasazi
sites. We are interested in how zooarchaeological data can be used to measure the
long-term impact of human populations
on the environment, and the extent to
which we can detect changing social and
economic organization in the centuries
leading up to the abandonment of the
Four Corners region in the late thirteenth
century.
Having concentrated on Pueblo III sites
in previous research, we are now working
on earlier sites and multi-component sites,
including the Lowry and Yellowjacket
complexes, Shields Pueblo and Stix and
Excavating
under recent
packrat nest,
SW Colorado
Leaves Pueblo (all in Colorado). A parallel project will examine faunal remains
from Zuni, New Mexico. I am continuing
studies at Bluff Great House, a Chacoan
outlier in southeast Utah.
A lot of this work is being done in
collaboration with Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, but I am also working
with the Department of Anthropology
and the Museum of Anthropology at the
University of Colorado (Boulder) (Cathy
Cameron and Steve Lekson), Fort Lewis
College (Jim Judge), Bruce Bradley,
and Zuni Cultural Resource Enterprise
(Jonathan Damp).
I am also conducting a long-term taphonomy study on bone deposition and preservation in pinyon-juniper environments.
As a result of being appointed Dean
of Graduate Studies in May, my undergraduate teaching has been reduced to one
course a year. I am continuing to recruit
and supervise graduate students.
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faculty research
Knut Fladmark
I
have two major articles “in press”, one
representing the first synthesis of the
prehistory of northern interior B.C.,
to be published in a volume edited by
Cathy Carlson. The second is a summary
of late Quaternary paleoenvironments of
the northern NW Coast, planned for publication in a volume to be edited by
J. Cybulski (at the CMC). I maintain a
research interest in Late Pleistocene environments, and how they may have influenced early human cultural adaptations and
movements into and through N. America.
That coincides with a more general “geoarchaeological interest” concerned with
understanding the environmental history
represented by the geomorphological contexts and sedimentary contents of archaeological sites. I also have an interest in the
prehistory of the Northern NW Coast and
Western Subarctic culture areas, and more
broadly the rest of Canada and northern
North America.
Biruté Galdikas
D
r. Galdikas’ research specialties
include studies of primate behavior, ecology, and evolution, with
particular focus on orangutans. Other
research interests involve tropical rain forest ecology and phenology.
Since 1971 research has been ongoing
at the Orangutan research and conservation
center in Tanjung Puting National Park,
Indonesia. These studies have been
specifically concerned with wild orangutan
behavior, the development of orangutan
conservation programs, and the re-introduction of captured individuals into the
wild. Specific areas that have been investigated include orangutan subsistence, sociality, reproduction, cognitive potentials,
communications and tool use. Other primate studies have been carried out on proboscus monkeys and macaques.
Brian Hayden
R
esearch over
the last year
has focused on
preliminary
ethno-archaeological
feasibility studies of
feasting in Southeast
Asia, particularly in
the Torajan Highlands
of Sulawesi. I was also invited to present
a series of lectures at the University of
Paris (Nanterre) by the French Ministry of
Science and Culture through La Maison
des Sciences de l’Homme. No further
excavation work was conducted at Keatley
Creek, however, the first two (out of three)
volumes of the final report on Keatley
Creek were published. Sara Mossop
Cousins continues the analysis of roastingpits at the site. The volume which I
co-edited with Michael Dietler on feasting
(Feasts: Archaeological and Ethnographic
Perspectives on Food, Politics, and Power)
is now in press at the Smithsonian
Institution Press.
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faculty research
Philip Hobler
P
rofessor Hobler’s earlier interests in
the North American Southwest and
in North Africa were taken over by
his archaeological research in B.C. Hobler
has conducted surveys and excavations on
the B.C. coast from the Gulf Islands to
the Alaska border. His current work is concentrated on the Central Coast in the traditional territories of the Heiltsuk and the
Nuxalkmx with interests focused on the
opposite ends of the time scale. The Early
Period site of Tsini tsini, a three year
field school project, may represent an initial occupation of the Central Coast at a
time when the sea extended deeply into
the present day river valleys. In the historic period his current paper on Bella
Bella explores the complex responses of
native cultures to European contact from
an archaeological perspective.
Ross Jamieson
R
oss Jamieson joined the
Archaeology Department as an
Assistant Professor in September
of 2000. He has a master’s degree in historical archaeology from the College of
William and Mary, and a doctorate from
the Department of Archaeology at the
University of Calgary. Prior to coming to
Simon Fraser University, Jamieson com-
pleted a SSHRC Post-Doctoral Fellowship
in the Department of Anthropology at
Trent University.
Jamieson is currently in the second year
of a three-year SSHRC standard research
grant. This research is focused on the colonial archaeology of the city of Cuenca, in
the southern highlands of Ecuador. During
the 1999 field season the rear yards of two
colonial houses in the city core were excavated, with excavation in other neighbourhoods of the city planned for two
future field seasons. Combined with excavation data, the project also involves an
ongoing archival component, looking at
colonial documents in the Cuenca Notarial
Archives in order to gain information on
colonial property ownership and household
material culture. The overall goal of the
project is to explore status and caste relations in the colonial city, and how these
relate to the material culture in colonial
urban houses.
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faculty research
Dana Lepofsky
M
y research
during
2000 was
divided between several projects. I continue to work with
Michael Blake
(Department of
Anthropology and
Sociology, UBC),
and Doug Brown (a Ph.D. student in our
department) on analyzing material from
the Scowlitz Archaeology project, in the
upper Fraser Valley. We have just submitted a major paper for publication, and are
working on others. Our goal is to publish
a series of monographs on the site in the
next two years. I have also spent time
completing the analysis and write-up of
an interdisciplinary project which documents the natural and cultural fire history
of the Chittenden Meadow, in the Skagit
Valley. Finally, I began a new excavation
project with the Tsleil-Waututh Nation
in Vancouver’s North Shore. The project
involved two months of excavating the
“Strathcona Park site” — a summer village
site in Deep Cove. The project included an
active outreach program, which involved
tours, media relations, and the production
of several outreach materials. The analysis
and write-up of the project are on-going.
Diane Lyons
M
y profession activities for the
year are as follows:
1) Attended the 3rd
Annual Symposium
on Innovative
Teaching May 26–28,
2000 (SFU).
2) Presented a joint
paper with Cathy D’Andrea at the Society
of Africanist Archaeologists Conference in
Cambridge, England July 12–15, 2000.
The paper examined some of the ethnoarchaeological work that Cathy D’Andrea
and I have completed in Ethiopia. The
paper was entitled “An ethnoarchaeologi-
cal study of griddle cooking technologies
in Highland Ethiopia”. We are in the final
stages of preparing this paper for a major
journal. 3) Promoted from Lecturer to
Senior Lecturer Sept.1, 2000. 4) Presented
a paper to the Archaeological Society of
British Columbia 13 September, 2000. The
paper presented some of the ethnoarchaeological work that we have completed in
Tigray, Ethiopia. 5) Submitted a substantial chapter for a book on the Mandara
Archaeological Project concerning my ethnoarchaeological work in Cameroon, but
the editors have now decided not to move
ahead with the project. The paper that I
submitted will be reworked for another
publication.
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faculty research
Erle Nelson
R
esearch
activities
this past
year include:
1) Completion of a
major project to date
beeswax art in
Northern Australia. 2) Continuing collaborative work (with Danish colleagues) on
an isotopic dietary study of the Greenland
Norse, the Greenland Thule, and the
early Icelandic and Faeroese colonists. The
Greenland study also includes analyses of
bones of wild and tame animals found in
Norse and Thule middens, and of comparative modern populations of reindeer, seals,
fish and plants. 3) A dating study for an
early Greenland Norse site, presently under
excavation. 4) First work to examine the
radiocarbon ocean reservoir effect for south
Greenland. 5) First measurements to test the
possibility of “fingerprinting” Arctic materials for trade studies. 6) Continuing dating
work to aid D. Burley’s Tongan research
projects.
These specific research projects are
undertaken in the small SFU Archaeometry
Laboratory which I support. This laboratory
is managed by Cheryl Takahashi, whose
tasks include sample processing for specific
projects, as well as method development.
As time permits, a limited amount of work
is done to support other reseachers. This
lab also is the work centre for graduate
and undergraduate students doing research
under my direction. Stable isotope and
radiocarbon analyses are made possible
through my connections to the
Oceanography Department at UBC and the
Center for AMS at the Lawrence-Livermore
National Laboratory in California.
The
Nordbo
Project
group at
Ø34,
Greenland
This year, work in the lab included: analysis of 241 samples for carbon and nitrogen
stable isotopes; dating of 57 small radiocarbon samples; undergraduate T. Logan’s
review of Greenland Norse archaeology;
graduate student R. Commisso’s isotopic
study of nitrogen in grass growing on middens; investigation of
the protein content of
fossilized teeth; development of a method to
Pig tooth after sampling dentin
remove modern animal
glue used to preserve old bone; investigation of means to remove lipids from modern
animal tissues.
The lab has its own report series for inhouse work. Some are specific to projects
and therefore not openly available; others
may be obtained upon request. This past
year, these include
Takahashi, C.M. and D.E. Nelson, 2000, Collagen
extraction protocol, SFU Archaeometry
Laboratory, SFU Archaeometry Laboratory
Report 2000–1.
Nelson, D.E. and C.M. Takahashi, 2000, Stable isotope analyses of Greenland plant samples, ibid
2000–2.
Logan, T., 2000, A summary of Greenland Norse
Archaeology, ibid 2000–3.
Takahashi, C.M. and D.E. Nelson, 2000, Testing collagen preservation in archaeological teeth, ibid
2000–4.
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faculty research
George Nicholas
T
his year my research activities
included the following:
• a globally-oriented research project on wetland ecology and hunter-gatherer
archaeology that will culminate in a book
for Plenum/Kluewer Press. Part of a recent
trip to Australia was devoted to examining
wetland-associated archaeological sites;
• co-investigator on “Patterns in Ethnobotany: People-Plant Relationships of the
Interior Plateau and Northwest Coast,”
a three-year, interdisciplinary SSHRCfunded project. A major component of this
project is my investigation of the role
that wetlands had on prehistoric and historic land-use practices and resource harvesting, with field studies planned for selected
locations in both the Kamloops/Shuswap
Lake region and the lower mainland;
• continued investigation of the theoretical and sociopolitical aspects on indigenous archaeologies;
• ongoing study of long-term land use
in the Kamloops region. This has involved
extensive excavation at several multiplecomponent sites that are yielding a record
of activities that span at least the last 7,000
years;
• study of the archaeological and ethnographic history of birch bark and its phytochemical properties relating to food preservation.
Richard Shutler, Jr. (Emeritus)
D
r. Shutler’s current research
includes: 1. Lapita Pottery
Homeland: A new look.
2. The Kamchatka - Aleutian Islands as
the route for people following the Coastal
Route into North and South America.
3. Analysis and reporting of my excavations
at the Atiahara Site on Tubuai, Austral
Islands, French Polynesia.
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faculty research
Mark Skinner
D
r. Skinner’s primary research is
funded by Natural Sciences and
Engineering Research Council of
Canada. He is studying developmental
stress in recent apes (orangutans, common
chimpanzees, bonobos and gorillas) as
revealed in dental enamel defects. He has
found a ubiquitous pattern of semi-annual
stress which reflect global moisture cycles.
Current research is directed towards deter-
mining whether the proximate cause of
stress is disease, malnutrition or both.
His secondary research is currently
focussed on developing a new technique
for determination of age at death from
sacral bones which can be applied to both
recent and ancient skeletons. His forensic
consulting this year took him to East Timor
on behalf of the UN High Commissioner
on Human Rights.
Dongya Yang
D
ongya Yang is a
physical anthropologist with a
specialization in ancient
DNA and its applications
in anthropology and
archaeology. He joined the
department as an assistant
professor in September
2000 from McMaster
University where he held
a faculty position (limited
term) in the Department of Anthropology.
Also, at McMaster University, he held a
two-year SSHRC postdoctoral research fellowship in the Department of Pathology
and Molecular Medicine after he obtained
his Ph.D. degree in the Department of
Anthropology in 1998.
His research interests cover DNA diagnosis of human diseases from ancient
remains, DNA analysis of ancient skeletal
populations, DNA identification of ancient
skeletal remains and DNA species identification of ancient animal and plant remains.
His current projects include: understanding
the origin of syphilis through ancient DNA
analysis, genetic analysis of an ancient
Italian skeletal population, DNA identification of a 100-year-old infant skeleton
(done) and species identification of ancient
salmon bones.
Eldon Yellowhorn
E
ldon Yellowhorn’s research interests
include the role of traditional knowledge and oral narratives in archaeological research. A part of his research
concerns examining Blackfoot traditional
knowledge as a guide for determining the
factors contributing to the origin of largescale communal hunting on the northern
plains. Traditional knowledge is also playing
a key role as a theoretical motive in
the emergence of indigenous archaeology.
Indigenous archaeology is about appropriating the methods of archaeology to serve traditional knowledge by recovering or reinvigorating extinct or obsolete traditional knowledge. The long-term goal is to create an
archaeology that draws its personnel from
indigenous communities and which pursues
research objectives based upon an internalist
sense of the past.
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faculty research
Alan McMillan (Adjunct)
Trench excavation through shell midden deposits
at Ts’ishaa village. Project workers are excavating
around a large stack of whale bones. A mussel shell
whaling harpoon head was found embedded in the bone
in the foreground.
R
ecent work of the Tseshaht
Archaeological Project, for which
McMillan is a co-director, has
focused on Benson Island, one of the outer
islands of the Broken Group in Barkley
Sound, on the west coast of Vancouver
Island. Excavation was at the large village
site on the island, known as Ts’ishaa. This
is the origin place of the Tseshaht people, a
Nuu-chah-nulth First Nation today resident
at Port Alberni. Their traditional territories
include all of the Broken Group, which
is today within Pacific Rim National Park
Reserve. Oral histories tell of how First
Man and First Woman were created at this
location. This site has great cultural significance to the Tseshaht First Nation, which
is co-sponsoring this archaeological project
with Parks Canada.
Shell midden deposits at the site of
Ts’ishaa are up to four metres in depth.
Two major trenches have been excavated
across the village area, revealing evidence
of the activities carried out there over the
past two millennia. Large quantities of fish
and sea mammal bones demonstrate the
highly maritime way of life of these people. Accounts by native elders of the great
whalers who once lived at this village were
supported by several discoveries of large
piles of whale bones, including one with
the mussel shell blade of an ancient whaling harpoon head still deeply embedded.
On a ridge behind the main village, even
earlier evidence was discovered. This land
surface was occupied when sea levels were
about three metres higher than they are
today. Waves once broke at the base of
this ridge, prior to the gradual lifting of
the land and the build-up of the later village below. Radiocarbon dates show that
this portion of the site was first occupied
over 5500 years ago, providing the oldest
archaeological evidence known from the
west coast of Vancouver Island.
Public education played an important
role in this project. Over 1700 visitors
viewed the excavation in progress and
were introduced to the history of this area
by Tseshaht guides. Another major focus
was to provide training for Tseshaht youth,
who made up a significant portion of the
excavation crew. A considerable number of
students also participated, either as paid
members of the crew or as volunteers.
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research grants
Research Grants Awarded
Burley, D. V. (2000–2001). Lapita Colonization in the Kingdom of Tonga. SSHRC
Regular Research Grant ($29,550), year 3 of 3.
Burley, D. V. (2000). Nasova House Excavations, Levuka, Fiji. SSHRC/SFU Small
Project Grant ($4,800).
Burley, D. V. (2000). Sigatoka Sand Dunes Excavations, Viti Levu, Fiji. National
Geographic Research and Scientific Committee Grant ($18,661).
Burley, D. V. (2000–2001). Dean of Arts Research Grant ($5,000).
D’Andrea, A.C. and D.E. Lyons. (2000). Ethnoarchaeological Reconnaissance of the
Mekelle-Adigrat Region, Ethiopia. SSHRC Small Grant ($7500).
Driver, J. C. (2000–2001). Zoological Studies in the American Southwest. SSHRC
($12,803), year 1 of 3.
Galdikas, B. M. F. (2000–2001). Orangutans in Kalimantan. W. Garfield Westion
Foundation ($12,500).
Hayden, B. (2000). SFU Publications Grant: Publication of Keatley Creek Report
($8,000).
Hayden, B. (1999–2001). Ethnoarchaeology of Feasting in Indonesia. SSHRC Small
($4,500).
Jamieson, R. (2000). Colonial Material Culture in Ecuador. SFU President’s Research
Grant ($10,000).
Jamieson, R. (2000–2001). Status and Caste in the Colonial Andes: the Case for
Cuenca, Ecuador. SSHRC ($20,530), year 2 of 3.
*Lepofsky, D. (2000). The People’s Work: The Tsleil-Waututh Community
Archaeology Project, Global Forest ($5000).
*Lepofsky, D. (2000–2001). The People’s Work: The Tsleil-Waututh Community
Archaeology Project. Heritage Trust ($15,000).
*Lepofsky, D. (1999–2000). The Fire History and Cultural Occupation of Chittenden
Meadow, Upper Skagit River Valley, B.C. SEEC ($24,360).
Nelson, D. E. (2000–2001). Archaeometric Research. NSERC ($49,088), year 3 of 4.
Nelson, D. E. (2000–2001). Nordbo Project. University of Aarhus. ($30,146).
Nicholas, G. P. (1998–2000). Fish Weir Construction, Chronology and Land-Use
Ecology, South Thompson River, Kamloops, British Columbia. SSHRC Small
($4,844).
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research grants
Nicholas, G. P. (2000–2002). Long-Term Cultural Chronolgy of the Prehistoric
Secwepemc, Kamoops, B.C. SSHRC Small ($4,984).
*Nicholas, G. P., M. Ignace, R. Ignace, N. Turner (2000–2002). Patterns in
Ethnobotany: People-Plant Relationships of the Interior Plateau and Northwest
Coast. SSHRC ($58,000), year 1 of 3.
Yang, D. (Principal Investigator) (2000). Understanding the Origins of Syphilis
through Ancient DNA Analysis of Archaeological Skeletons. SSHRC Regular
Research Grant ($23,000), year 2 of 3.
Yang, D. (2000). Equipment for Ancient DNA Studies. SFU President Research Grant
($10,000).
*Administered through another institution.
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museum report
Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
Northwest
Coast Box.
Below left: Tigerlily,
Fraser Valley, B.C.
Below right: Ceramic
whistle, North of
Mexico City, Mexico.
T
he Museum received small donations or archaeological and ethnographic collections, but continues to focus collecting activities on photographic images. The Museum received
collections of photographs and slides
from the following areas: northern and
western Canada, South Pacific, Europe
and Africa. These images are used in
exhibitions and on the museum’s growing
web site.
The Museum’s web site (http://
www.sfu.ca/archaeology/museum/) has
almost doubled in size over the past
12 months, with additional sections
on Northwest Coast two dimensional
art, archaeology in the South Pacific
and Latin America,
the extinction of the
mammoths and geographic information
systems in archaeology and paleoethnobotany in the Fraser
Valley. The web site currently gets over
10,000 hits a week.
Collections activities in the past year
included ongoing conservation of water
saturated basketry fragments recovered
from the Scowlitz wet
site, and construction
of ethafoam mounts for
fragile artifacts.
Collection documentation and consolidation
of all the files into a
database is continuing.
The number of teaching kits has been
doubled, allowing for greater use of the
collection in department teaching. Kits
were also made for use in the community
outreach programme run in conjunction
with the North Vancouver field school.
A temporary exhibit on tourist arts of
Fiji was developed and installed in the
Museum gallery by two undergraduate
students.
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laboratories report
Archaeology Laboratories Report
T
he year 2000 was extremely busy
and productive for the Archaeology
Laboratories. The laboratory staff,
Laboratory Manager (Andrew Barton)
and Laboratory Technician (Shannon
Wood), have a wide range of responsibilities in support of the Department’s
teaching and research programmes including maintenance and development of the
Department’s laboratories, ancillary facilities and equipment, curation of the teaching and research collections, support
for the laboratory based undergraduate
courses, logistical support for the field
schools and field research projects, and
maintenance and administration of the
Department’s computer network and facilities.
During Wood’s maternity leave her position was temporarily filled by Lori White
who did an exemplary job while in
the position. Laboratory staff supervised
four students on Work Studies Programme
projects: Spencer De Gruchy conducted
research on the Osteology collection
and assisted Post-Doctoral Fellow Dr.
Mirjana Roksandic with her tooth sectioning research; Bruce McMahon cataMichael
Will and
Bruce
McMahon
preparing
Fiji Exhibit.
logued a collection of Tongan ceramics
and assisted in the preparation of an exhibit for the Fiji National Museum; Beth
Weathers organized the Archaeobotany ref-
erence collection and worked on the
Tongan National Museum Lapita Exhibit;
Jared Obermeyer made an inventory of
the archaeological collection from the
Lower Cumberland Archaeology Project,
prepared it for long-term storage and
helped catalogue specimens in the Historic
Archaeology Teaching collection.
The lab staff provided equipment and
logistical support for both field schools
offered by the Department this year. Wood
designed and developed a lab module for
use in electronic transit surveying and map
creation for campus based course work.
The lab staff also provided support to
eight other field research projects conducted by Department faculty, graduate and
undergraduate students, as well as to the
University of Northern B.C. archaeology
field school, conducted at Soda Creek,
B.C.
Ten Department lab courses were
offered during the spring and fall semesters including a new course in computer
applications in archaeology.
The Department was funded for two
major renovation projects this year. The
first involves a complete renovation of the
Graduate laboratory. The second project
will be conducted in the labs on the 8000
level and will see construction of two
staff offices, renovations to the preparation
lab and the upgrade and extension of the
mechanical services. Final planning tendering was completed in the fall with
completion of these projects expected in
February 2001.
A number of minor renovations this
year include, the conversion of the Chair’s
Laboratory (EDU 9638) into an office for
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laboratories report
the First Nations Studies faculty member.
Two other faculty offices and one faculty
lab were repainted and had high-speed data
lines installed in preparation for the arrival
of new faculty members. High-speed data
lines were installed in six additional labs
on the 9000 level. The Dean of Arts office
kindly provided partial funding for the
installation of the data lines and funding
for the renovations to EDU 9638.
The Forensic Laboratory was repainted
during the summer semester and the adjacent collections storage room was reorganized. The new Archaeobotany Laboratory
was set up in EDU 8608 involving repainting and the installation of new laboratory
furniture and collections storage cabinets.
The Department’s instructional computer graphics laboratory received a major
upgrade to its equipment and software. The
transfer of Macintosh computer users from
phonenet to ethernet connections was continued in anticipation of the closure of the
phonenet system.
The Department’s botanical teaching
collection and the B.C. seed and wood
reference collections were inventoried and
transferred to the new Archaeobotany
Lab. Conservation assessment was conducted on the collections which were
then prepared for storage in the new
lab. Cataloging and research continued
on the Department’s physical anthropology
and forensic teaching collections. Several
acquisitions were made for the Historic
Archaeology Collection including 17th
Effigy pipes.
to 19th century Scottish, British, Irish
and Dutch clay pipes and some reproductions of machine cut nail sets. Work continued on developing teaching kits for the
Historic Archaeology course.
The laboratory staff was involved in the
planning and development of two major
museum exhibits during the year. In the
spring semester an exhibit on Lapita pottery from the Sigatoka Dune site was
prepared for the Fiji National Museum.
Lori White oversaw the consolidation and
reconstruction of the pots and was assisted
in the design and construction of the
exhibit by Mike Will and Bruce McMahon.
The second, an exhibit on the archaeology
of the Lapita period in Tonga for the
Tongan National Museum, is currently in
the planning stages with the construction
and installation of the exhibit planned for
May 2001.
Andrew Barton
and Shannon Wood
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publications
Publications (2000)
Burley, D.V.
2000 Creolization and Late 19th century Métis vernacular log architecture on the
South Saskatchewan River. Historical Archaeology 34(3): 27-35.
2000 Function, meaning and context: Ambiguities in ceramic use by the hivernant
Metis of the northwestern plains. In D. R. Brauner (compiler), Approaches to
Material Culture Research for Historical Archaeologists (2nd edition), The Society
for Historical Archaeology, Uniontown, pp. 399-408.
Burley, D.V. and M.H. Will
2000 “The beer that made Klondike famous and Milwaukee jealous”: The O’Brien
Brewing and Malting Company, Klondike City, Yukon. Industrial Archaeology 26:
37-54.
Butler, E.A. and A.C. D’Andrea
2000 Farming and Famine: Subsistence Strategies in Highland Ethiopia. In The
Archaeology of Drylands, edited by G. Barker and D. Gilbertson, pp. 180–200.
London: Routledge.
Carlson, R.L.
2000 Northwestern North America. In History of Humanity Vol. IV from the Seventh
to the Sixteenth Century, edited by M. A. Al-Bakhit, L. Bazin & S. M. Cissoko,
pp. 560–565. UNESCO, Paris.
2000 Review of Peoples of the Northwest Coast: Their Archaeology and Prehistory
by K.M. Ames and H. Maschner. Journal of Anthropological Research 56:254–256.
2000 Borden, Charles E. (p. 85), Archaeology (p. 20–21), Prehistory (p. 571–572),
Middens (p.458), Marpole Midden (p. 450). In Encyclopedia of British Columbia
edited by D. Francis. Harbour Publishing, Madeira Park, B.C.
Driver, J.C.
2000 Hunting strategies and horticultural communities in southeastern New Mexico.
In Animal Bones, Human Societies, edited by P. Rowley-Conwy, pp 115–123.
Oxbow Books, Oxford.
Guatelli-Steinberg, D. & M.F.Skinner.
2000 Prevalence and etiology of linear enamel hypoplasia in monkeys and apes from
Asia and Africa. Folia Primatologica 71: 115–132.
Hayden, B.
2000 (editor) The ancient past of Keatley Creek. Volume II: Socioeconomy.
Archaeology Press: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C.
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publications
2000 Prestige artifacts at Keatley Creek. In The ancient past of Keatley Creek. Volume
II: Socioeconomy, edited by B. Hayden, pp. 189–202. Archaeology Press: Simon
Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C.
2000 Social organization and life at Keatley Creek: A reconstruction. In The ancient
past of Keatley Creek. Volume II: Socioeconomy, edited by B. Hayden, pp.287–302.
Archaeology Press: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C.
2000 An overview of the Classic Lillooet occupation at Keatley Creek. In The
ancient past of Keatley Creek. Volume II: Socioeconomy, edited by B. Hayden, pp.
255–286. Archaeology Press: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C.
2000 Socioeconomic factors influencing housepit assemblages at Keatley Creek. In
The ancient past of Keatley Creek. Volume II: Socioeconomy, edited by B. Hayden,
pp. 3-28. Archaeology Press: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C.
2000 (editor) The ancient past of Keatley Creek. Volume I: Taphonomy. Archaeology
Press: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C.
2000 Conclusions: site formation processes at Keatley Creek. In The ancient past of
Keatley Creek. Volume 1: Taphonomy, edited by B. Hayden. Archaeology Press:
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC.
2000 The opening of Keatley Creek. In The ancient past of Keatley Creek. Volume
1: Taphonomy, edited by B. Hayden. Archaeology Press: Simon Fraser University,
Burnaby, B.C.
2000 Variations in sediment characteristics across floors. In The ancient past
of Keatley Creek. Volume 1: Taphonomy, edited by B. Hayden, pp. 95–101.
Archaeology Press: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C.
2000 Dating deposits at Keatley Creek. In The ancient past of Keatley Creek. Volume
1: Taphonomy, edited by B. Hayden, pp. 35–40. Archaeology Press: Simon Fraser
University, Burnaby, B.C.
2000 On territoriality and sedentism. Current Anthropology 41:109–112.
Hayden, B. and M. Handly
2000 The analysis of mesodebitage and mesofauna at Keatley Creek. In The ancient
past of Keatley Creek. Volume II: Socioeconomy, edited by B. Hayden, pp.
143–150. Archaeology Press: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C.
Henry, A. and B. Hayden
2000 Mixing of projectile point types within housepit rim and floor strata at Keatley
Creek. In The ancient past of Keatley Creek. Volume 1: Taphonomy, edited by B.
Hayden, pp. 41–56. Archaeology Press: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C.
Hobler, P. M.
2000 Old Bella Bella, Genesis and Exodus. Urban History Review/Revue d’histoire
urbaine 28 (2): 6–18.
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publications
Jamieson, R.
2000 Domestic Architecture and Power: The Historical Archaeology of Colonial
Ecuador. Contributions to Global Historical Archaeology. Kluwer Academic/
Plenum Publishers, New York.
2000 Doña Luisa and Her Two Houses. In Lines That Divide: Historical
Archaeologies of Race, Class, and Gender, edited by J. A. Delle, S. A. Mrozowski
and R. Paynter, pp. 142–167. University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville.
2000 Informe al Instituto Nacional de Patrimonio Cultural del Ecuador, de la prospeccion arqueológica realizada en dos casas en la traza urbana de Cuenca, Azuay,
octubre, noviembre y diciembre de 1999. report on file, Instituto Nacional de
Patrimonio Cultural del Ecuador, Quito and Cuenca.
Lepofsky, D.
2000 Formation Processes: Paleoethnobotanical Evidence. In Formation Process at
the Keatley Creek Site, Lillooet, B.C., edited by B. Hayden. Archaeology Press,
Simon Fraser University.
McMillan, A. D.
2000 Early Nuu-chah-nulth Art and Adornment: Glimpses from the Archaeological
Record. In Nuu-chah-nulth Voices, Histories, Objects and Journeys, edited by A. L.
Hoover. Royal British Columbia Museum, Victoria, B.C.
Nance, J. D.
2000 Elemental Composition Studies of Lithic Materials from Western Kentucky and
Tennessee. Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology 25: 83–100.
Nicholas, George P.
2000 Archaeology, Education, and the Secwepemc (Updated version). In Forging
Respect: Archaeologists and Native Americans Working Together, edited by K.
Dongoske, pp. 153–163. Society for American Archaeology, Washington, D.C.
2000 Indigenous Land Rights, Education, and Archaeology in Canada: Postmodern/
Postcolonial Perspectives by a Non-Canadian White Guy. In Native Title and the
Transformation of Archaeology in the Postcolonial World, edited by I. Lilley.
Oceania Monographs (special issue), pp.121–137.
2000 Review of Shells, by C. Claassen. Journal of Middle Atlantic Archaeology 15: 213.
2000 Review of People, Plants and Landscapes: Studies in Paleoethnobotany, edited
by K. Gremillion. Journal of Ethnobiology 18(1): 226-228.
Skinner, M.F.
2000 Periodicity of repetitive linear enamel hypoplasia in Asian and African apes.
American Journal of Physical Anthropology AAPA Abstracts. Supplement 30:283.
York, H.P., M.F. Skinner and M.A. Connor
2000 Postburial disturbance of graves in Bosnia-Herzegovina. American Journal of
Physical Anthropology AAPA Abstracts. Supplement 30:329.
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publications
Publications (in press)
Carlson, R. L.
2000 Diring Yuriakh: An Early Paleolithic Site on the Lena River. In Indo-Pacific
Prehistory: the Melaka Papers, vol. 2. Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory
Association 21. Australian National University, Canberra, in press.
2000 The Northwest Coast during the Pleistocene/Holocene Transition: High Road
or Hindrance? The Western Center for Archaeological Research, University of
Nevada, Las Vegas, in press.
Chaloupka, G., M. S. Alderson and D. E. Nelson
2000 The Kakadu Park sites: Yarranggulnja. In The Beeswax Art of Northern
Australia, edited by D. E. Nelson. Simon Fraser University, in press.
Chaloupka, G., C. Chippindale, D. E. Nelson and P. S. C. Taçon
2000 Introduction. In The Beeswax Art of Northern Australia, edited by D. E. Nelson.
Simon Fraser University, in press.
Chippindale, C., D. E. Nelson and G. Chaloupka
2000 Tabletop Range. In The Beeswax Art of Northern Australia, edited by D. E.
Nelson. Simon Fraser University, in press.
D’Andrea, A.C., M. Klees, J. Casey
2000 Archaeobotanical Evidence for Pearl Millet (Pennisetum glaucum) in SubSaharan Africa. Antiquity, in press.
D’Andrea, A.C. and J. Casey
2000 Pearl Millet and Kintampo Subsistence. African Archaeological Review, in
press.
Dickinson, W. R., and R. Shutler, Jr.
2000 Implications of petrographic temper analysis for Oceanian Prehistory. Journal of
World Prehistory 14 (3), in press.
Driver, J. C.
2000 Environmental archaeology is not human palaeoecology. In Environmental
Archaeology: Meaning and Purpose, edited by U. Albarella. Kluwer, in press.
2000 Faunal Remains. In The Archaeology of Castle Rock Pueblo, edited by K.
Kuckelman. www.crowcanyon.org (This is a completely on-line site report, which
will allow users to access all the databases from the site, including the specimenby-specimen faunal descriptions), in press.
Fladmark, K.
2000 From land to sea: Late Quaternary Environments of the Northern North
West Coast. In volume publishing the 1996 CAA “Northern North West Coast
Symposium”, edited by G. Cybulski and P. McGhee, in press.
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publications
2000 The pre-contact history of northern intermountain British Columbia. In
Anthropology of the Northern Cordillera. Papers to honour the memory of Arne
and Lesley Carlson, edited by Catherine Carlson, University of British Columbia
Press, in press.
Jamieson, R.
2000 Review of Niles “The Shape of Inca History: Narrative and Architecture in an
Andean Empire.” Journal of Cultural Geography, in press.
Keeling, C. I. and D. E. Nelson
2000 Changes in the intramolecular stable carbon isotope ratios with age of the
European cave bear (Ursus spelaeus). Oecologia, in press.
Lepofsky, D.
2000 Socioeconomy at Keatley Creek: Paleoethnobotanical Evidence, In Socioecomy
at the Keatley Creek Site, Lillooet, B.C., edited by B. Hayden. Archaeology Press,
Simon Fraser University, in press.
2000 The Northwest. In Plants and Ancient People in Ancient North America, edited
by P. Minnis. Smithsonian Institution Press, in press.
2000 Plants and Pithouses: The Archaeobotany of Complex Hunter-Gatherers on
the British Columbia Plateau. In The Archaeobotany of Temperate-Zone HunterGatherers, edited by. S. L. R Mason & J. G Hather, Institute of Archaeology
Occasional Publications, London, in press.
Lepofsky, D., M. L. Moss, and N. Lyons.
2000 An Archaeobotanical analysis of Cape Addington Rockshelter (49-CRG-188),
Southeast Alaska, in press.
Lepofsky, D., D. Hallett, K. Washbrook, S. McHalsie, K. Lertzman, and R. Mathewes.
2000 Documenting precontact plant management on the Northwest Coast: An example
of prescribed burning in the central and upper Fraser Valley, British Columbia.
In Foragers or Cultivators: Reassessments of Indigenous Resource Management
on the Northwest Coast of North America, edited by D. Deur and N. J. Turner.
University of Washington Press, in press.
Nelson, D. E.
2000 (editor) The Beeswax Art of Northern Australia. This is a CD ‘book’ in Adobe
Acrobat format which has 1289 pages in total, of which 107 are text, 588 are
digital diagrams and 591 are digital colour photographs. Simon Fraser University,
in press
2000 A scientist’s view of Northern Territory Beeswax art. In The Beeswax Art of
Northern Australia, edited by D. E. Nelson. Simon Fraser University, in press.
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publications
Nelson, D. E., C. Chippindale, G. Chaloupka and P. S. C. Taçon
2000 The Plateau site. In The Beeswax Art of Northern Australia, edited by D. E.
Nelson. Simon Fraser University, in press.
Nelson, D. E., C. Chippindale, P. S. C. Taçon and G. Chaloupka
2000 Field recording: Definitions and methods. In The Beeswax Art of Northern
Australia, edited by D. E. Nelson. Simon Fraser University, in press.
Nelson, D. E., J. R. Southon and C. Takahashi
2000 Radiocarbon dating the wax art. In The Beeswax Art of Northern Australia,
edited by D. E. Nelson. Simon Fraser University, in press.
Nelson, D. E., W. E. Meredith, J. N. Campbell, G. Lee, and C. Takahashi
2000 Producing the digital Book of Record, In The Beeswax Art of Northern Australia,
edited by D. E. Nelson. Simon Fraser University, in press.
Nicholas, G. P.
2000 On Representations of Race and Racism. Current Anthropology, in press.
2000 Understanding the Present, Honoring the Past. In Indigenous Peoples
and Archaeology, edited by T. Peck and E. Siefried. University of Calgary
Archaeological Association, in press.
2000 A Necessary Tension: Integrating Processual, Postprocessual, and Other
Approaches to the Past. In Indigenous Peoples and Archaeology, edited by T. Peck
and E. Siefried. University of Calgary Archaeological Association, in press.
2000 Wet Sites, Wetland Sites, and Cultural Resource Management Strategies. In
Enduring Records: The Environmental and Cultural Heritage of Wetlands, edited
by B. Purdy. Oxbow Books, in press.
2000 Review of Alluvial Geoarchaeology: Floodplain Archaeology and
Environmental Change, by A. G. Brown. Canadian Journal of Archaeology, in
press.
2000 Review of Continent of Hunter-Gatherers: New Perspectives in Canadian
Prehistory, by H. Lourandos. Canadian Journal of Archaeology, in press
2000 The Past and Future of Indigenous Archaeology: Global Challenges, North
American Perspectives, Australian Prospects. Australian Archaeology, in press.
Ostapkowicz, J., D. Lepofsky, R. Schulting, and S. McHalsie.
2000 The use of cattail (Typha latifolia L.) down as a sacred substance by the Interior
and Coast Salish. Journal of Ethnobiology, in press.
Shutler, R., Jr.
2000 The Xiochangliang Sites. Nihewan Basin, North China, and its Bearing on the
Earliest Arrival of Hominids in Japan. Paper presented at Serizawa Symposium,
Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, 1999. BAR International Series 2000, in press.
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publications
Shutler, R., Jr.
2000 Chinese Paleolithic Archaeology. SAA, Philadelphia, 2000. BAR International
Series 2000, in press.
Shutler, R., Jr., M. J. Head, D. J. Donahue, A. J. Jull, M. M. Barbetti, S. Matsu’ura,
J. de Vos and P. Storm
2000 Wadjak AMS bone apatite 14C dates. BAR International Series 2000, in press.
Skinner, M. F.
2000 Myopia and Nutritionally Inhibited Cranio-facial Growth: A Theoretical Model
Based on Localised Hypoplasia of the Primary Canine Tooth in Orangutans and
Bonobos. In Proceedings in Honour of Professor Don Brothwell (1999), edited by
K. Dobney, in press.
2000 Skeletal evidence consistent with treponemal disease in West African nonhuman
primates. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, in press.
Skinner M. F. and E. Newell
2000 A re-evaluation of localised hypoplasia of the primary canine as a marker of
craniofacial osteopenia in European Upper Paleolithic infants. Proceedings of the
IVth International Ales Hrdlicka Conference (1999), edited by V. Smrcka, in press.
Skinner, M. F., H. P. York and M. A. Connor
2000 Post-burial Disturbance of Graves in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In Forensic
Taphonomy, vol. 2, edited by M. Sorg and W. D. Haglund. Boca Raton: CRC
Press, in press.
Taçon, P. S. C., G. Chaloupka, C. Chippindale and D. E. Nelson
2000 The Kakadu Park sites: Bindu. In The Beeswax Art of Northern Australia, edited
by D. E. Nelson. Simon Fraser University, in press.
Taçon, P. S. C., M. Garde and D. E. Nelson
2000 Mann River sites. In The Beeswax Art of Northern Australia, edited by D. E.
Nelson. Simon Fraser University, in press.
Yang, D.Y.
2000 Ancient DNA Extraction using Silica-Based Spin Columns. In: Ancient DNA,
Methods in Molecular Biology (series), edited by D. DeGusta. Humana Press,
Clifton, New Jersey, in press.
Yellowhorn, E.
2000 Strangely estranged: Native Studies and the problem of science. Native Studies
Review, in press.
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