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Canadian Journal of Archaeology Volume 33, Issue 1

Journal canadien d'archéologie volume 33, numéro 1

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Articles

Retrospective: Canadian Prairies Archaeology, 1857–1886: Exploration and Self Development Ian Dyck
Debitage Sample Size and its Implications for Understanding Lithic Assemblage Variability Brooke S. Milne
Iroquoian Pottery at Lake Abitibi: A Case Study of the Relationship Between Hurons and Algonkians on the Canadian Shield François Guindon
Geoarchaeological Investigations at Two Intermediate Indian Sites near Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Labrador: Implications for Late Holocene Paleoshoreline Reconstruction and Settlement Patterning in Western Hamilton Inlet Richard L. Josephs, and Scott W. Neilsen

Book Reviews/Comptes-rendus

Chiefdoms and Other Archaeological Delusions (Timothy R. Pauketat) – reviewed by Kenneth M. Ames
Archaeological Chemistry (2nd Edition) (Zvi Goffer) – reviewed by Adrian L. Burke
The Archaeology of the Caribbean (Samuel M. Wilson) – reviewed by Richard T. Callaghan
Rêves d’Amériques: Regard sur l’archéologie de la Nouvelle France/Dreams of the Americas: Overview of New France Archaeology (Christian Roy, and Hélène Côté, editors) – reviewed by Nadia Charest
Subsistence and Culture in the Western Canadian Arctic: A Multicontextual Approach Matthew W. Betts – reviewed by Susan Dermarkar
Olmec Archaeology and Early Mesoamerica (Christopher A. Pool) – reviewed by Helen R. Haines
Historical Resource Impact Assessment and Conservation Excavations at Cougar Ridge Off-Site Sewer Services (Brian Vivian, Amanda Dow, and Brian O. K. Reeves) – reviewed by Margaret G. Hanna
Paleoepidemiology: The Measure of Disease in the Human Past (Tony Waldron) – reviewed by Andrew W. Hickok
Archaeological Semiotics (Robert W. Preucel) – reviewed by Andrew Martindale
Neolithic (Susan Foster McCarter) – reviewed by Laurie Milne
Handbook of Gender in Archaeology (Sarah Milledge Nelson, editors) – reviewed by George Nicholas
Zooarchaeology (2nd Edition) (Elizabeth J. Reitz, and Elizabeth S. Wing) – reviewed by Trevor J. Orchard
The Cow Head Complex and the Recent Indian Period in Newfoundland, Labrador and the Quebec Lower North Shore (Latonia Hartery) – reviewed by Marianne Stopp
A Companion to Social Archaeology (Lynn Meskell, and Robert W. Preucel, editors) – reviewed by Colin Varley
Imagining Head-Smashed-In: Aboriginal Buffalo Hunting on the Northern Plains (Jack W. Brink) – reviewed by Dale A. Walde

Editors Notes/Notes du rédacteur

Editor’s Notes Gerald Oetelaar

In the previous issue, I introduced a new section designed to be a retrospective on the development of archaeology in Canada. The first paper included in this new section of the journal was Jane Kelley’s reminiscence on the important issues being discussed in seminars during her career as a graduate student at Harvard University. The present issue features an article by Ian Dyck in which he reviews the early archaeological research conducted in southern Manitoba and southern Saskatchewan. He correctly points out that this work is generally ignored in historical accounts of the discipline or derided with “pejorative terms such as antiquarian, pothunter, grave robber, looter, plunderer, racist or myth-maker”. Yet, his careful and meticulous review of the historical documents clearly shows that many of these historical figures were employing state-of-the-art field and laboratory methods to address some of the important research questions of the day. Their efforts deserve to be remembered and their contributions to the development of the discipline need to be acknowledged. The next issue of the journal will include a second instalment by Dyck on later developments in this same area and I can only hope that others will consider making similar contributions to the history and development of archaeology in other regions of Canada.