Session Schedule - Archaeological Sciences

Session Schedule - Archaeological Sciences

Session Schedule S-9 

Archaeological Sciences

Organizer: Adrian L. Burke (Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec)

9:00-9:20 Diagnostic Features of Swidden Cultivation in Soils of the Temperate Forest Zone
Ponomarenko, E.V. (University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario), Ershova E.G. (Moscow Lomonossov University, Moscow, Russia), Blinnikov M.S. (St. Cloud University, St. Cloud, Minnesota, USA), Vyazov L.A., Sitdikov A.G. (Kazan’ Federal University, Tatarstan, Russia)
9:20-9:40 New Approaches to Hearth Content Analysis
Ponomarenko, E.V. (Ecosystem Archaeology Services, Ottawa, Ontario)
9:40-10:00 Magnetic Susceptibility as a Hearth Marker on Ancient Archaeological Sites in NW Ontario
Gibson, Terrance H. (Western Heritage, St Albert, Alberta)
10:00-10:20 Coffee Break
10:20-10:40 Luminescence Dating: An Archaeological Application at the Kruger 2 Site (BiEx-23) in Southern Québec
Forget Brisson, Laurence (Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec), François Hardy (Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec), Claude Chapdelaine (Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec), Éric Graillon (Musée de la nature et des sciences de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec) and Michel Lamothe (Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec)
10:40-11:00 A Late Paleoindian Lithic Network in the Eastern Townships: Geoarchaeology and Geochemical Characterization/Le réseau lithique des Paléoindiens en Estrie  durant le Paléoindien récent: géoarchéologie et caractérisation géochimique
Burke, Adrian L. and Claude Chapdelaine (Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec)
11:00-11:20 Ochre Provenance in the Great Lakes Region: Geochemical Evidence for Pigment Procurement Practices
MacDonald, Brandi Lee (University of Missouri Research Reactor Centre, Columbia, Missouri, USA) and William A. Fox (Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario)
11:20-11:40 Ancient Starch Research: Contamination Landscapes in Field Archaeology and Laboratory Practice
Mercader, Julio (University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta)
11:40-12:00 Non-Destructive Residue Analysis on Small and Miniature Pottery Using Gas Chromatography Coupled Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS)
Speirs, K., M. Boyd, C. Matheson (Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Ontario)
12:00-13:20 Lunch
13:20-13:40 Re-creation of 18th Century American Porcelain (c. 1765-1773): Results of Kiln-firing Experiments on Compositional Analogues of Phosphatic and Aluminous-silicic Wares
Owen, J.V., J. Hanley, N. ennedy and E. Owen (Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia)
13:40-14:00 Tempered Strength: A Controlled Experiment Assessing Opportunity Costs of Adding Temper to Clay
Bebber, Michelle Rae (Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, USA)
14:00-14:20 The Soft-shell Clam, Mya arenaria: New Insights into Shellfish Strategies in the Maritime Woodland Period, Port Joli, Nova Scotia
Burchell, Meghan (Memorial University, St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador), Matthew Betts (Canadian Museum of History, Gatineau, Québec), Bernd R. Schöne (University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany)
14:20-14:40 Seasonality and Clam Harvesting in the Sechelt Landscape: Insights from Stable Oxygen Isotope Sclerochronology
Leclerc, Natasha (Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador)
14:40-15:00 Zinc Isotopes of Teeth and Bone as a Palaeodietary Indicator
Jaouen, K. (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany) and M.P. Richards (Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia) 
15:00-15:20 Coffee Break
15:20-15:40 A Pilot Application of Tomodensitometry in Zooarchaeology: Methodological Trial and Results of the Study of Seal Teeth from the Norse Eastern Settlement of Greenland
Treyvaud, Geneviève and Louis-Frederic Daigle (Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS), Québec, Québec), K. Smiarowski (City University of New York, New York, NY, USA), James Woollett (Université Laval, Québec, Québec), Mathieu Des Roches and Pierre Francus (Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS), Québec, Québec)
15:40-16:00 Quantification of Microwear on Experimental Mistassini Quartzite Scrapers Using Area-Scale Fractal Complexity (Asfc)
Stemp, W. James (Keene State College, Keene, New Hampshire, USA), Harry J. Lerner (Université Laval, Québec, Québec), and Elaine H. Kristant (Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA)
16:00-16:20 Apport des Systèmes d’Information Géographique dans la définition d’aires d’activités humaines au Paléolithique moyen. Exemple des sites de Caours et Beauvais (France)
Moreau, Gwénaëlle (Université de Liège, Ulg, Belgium), Jean-Luc Locht (Laboratoire de géographie physique, Meudon, France), Marylène Patou-Mathis (Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, Paris, France), Patrick Auguste (Université des sciences et technologies de Lille 1, Lille, France)