Session Schedule - Radiocarbon and Archaeology in Canada

Session Schedule - Radiocarbon and Archaeology in Canada

Session Schedule S-6 

Radiocarbon and Archaeology in Canada: Challenges, Advancements, and Datasets

Organizers: Grant Zazula (Yukon Government Palaeontology Program, Whitehorse, Yukon) & Carley Crann (A.E. Lalonde AMS Laboratory, Ottawa, Ontario)

8:40-9:00 Radiocarbon Dating by Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS) in Canada: The IsoTrace Epilogue and the Founding of the A.E. Lalonde AMS Laboratory
Kieser, W. E. (Liam) (Director of the A.E. Lalonde AMS Laboratory, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario)
9:00-9:20 What’s in a Radiocarbon Date? A Discussion on Radiocarbon Dating for Bone and What it Means for Archaeologists
Collett, Tara (University of Oxford, Oxford, UK)
9:20-9:40 The Comprehensive Archaeological Radiocarbon Database (CARD)
Gajewski, Konrad and Michelle A. Chaput (University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario)
9:40-10:00 Preliminary Results of Developing the Database of Russian Archaeological Sites that Combines the Absolute and Relative Chronological Data
Sitdikov, A.G. (Kazan Federal University, Tatarstan, Russia), L.A. Vyazov (Institute of Archaeology of Tatarstan Academy of Sciences, Tatarstan, Russia), M.I. Efimov, D.I. Farkhullin, V.V. Kugurakova (Kazan Federal University, Tatarstan, Russia), J.A. Salova and G.M. Sayfutdinova (Institute of Archaeology of Tatarstan Academy of Sciences, Tatarstan, Russia)
10:00-10:20 Dating Stone Circle Sites - Investigations Using Magnetometry and Paleobotanicals
Jollymore, Kay (University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan)
10:20-10:40 Coffee Break
10:40-11:00 Radiocarbon Ages of Organics with Associated Copper Alloy Manufacturing Timelines in Contact-Period Mi’kmaw Copper Pot Burial Sites in Nova Scotia
Hanley, Jacob, Paige Fleet and Glen Hodge (Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia) and Catherine Cottreau-Robins (Nova Scotia Museum, Halifax, Nova Scotia)
11:00-11:20 Do Radiocarbon Dates Tell You Anything Useful About Mammal Abundances in the Past?
Beaudoin, Alwynne B. and Christopher N. Jass (Royal Alberta Museum, Edmonton, Alberta)
11:20-11:40 Radiocarbon Modelling and Cultural Chronology: Regional Sample Biases and the Correlation of Absolute Chronology with the Established Periodization of the Past
Conolly James, Sara Lavigne and Dan Smith (Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario)
11:40-12:00 Dating the Human Presence at the Bluefish Caves (Yukon Territory, Canada): a Beringian Occupation During the Last Glacial Maximum
Bourgeon, Lauriane (Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec), Ariane Burke (Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec) and Thomas Higham (University of Oxford, Oxford, UK)
12:00-13:40 Lunch