@article {9694, title = {The Myers Road Site: Shedding New Light on Regional Diversity in Settlement Patterns}, journal = {Canadian Journal of Archaeology/Journal canadien d{\textquoteright}arch{\'e}ologie}, volume = {13}, year = {1989}, pages = {207-211}, author = {Robert J. MacDonald and Carol Naismith Ramsden and Ronald F. Williamson} } @article {9695, title = {Moving On: Expanding Perspectives on Athapaskan Migration}, journal = {Canadian Journal of Archaeology}, volume = {34}, year = {2010}, pages = {212-239}, abstract = {

Our recent book, \"Athapaskan Migrations: The Archaeology of Eagle Lake, British Columbia\" (Matson and Magne 2007) is mainly a synthesis of the fieldwork conducted on the Interior Plateau of British Columbia between 1979 and 1985 and analyses carried out at that time and more recently. It is also an attempt to place this B.C. material within the context of our knowledge of the large scale Athapaskan migrations across most of western North America. Here we provide clarifications about our research, report recent analytical results, and discuss conceptual advances that we believe can yield increased understanding of migrations.

}, author = {Martin P. R. Magne and R. G. Matson} } @article {9701, title = {Methodological Issues in the Use of Tsimshian Oral Traditions (Adawx) in Archaeology}, journal = {Canadian Journal of Archaeology/Journal canadien d{\textquoteright}arch{\'e}ologie}, volume = {30}, year = {2006}, pages = {158-192}, abstract = {

Tsimshian oral records, called adawx, provide an example of the storytelling capacity within a system that has structuring and, thus, historically translatable referents. Although many can be anticipated, here I focus on chronological order and the creation of a relative sequence of events in the adawx that provide an index to history and the most obvious conjunction to archaeological analyses. I argue that the use of significant moments in history as a means of creating chronological order in oral records may be a universal attribute of cultural historiography that is derived from our use of events as touchstones of memory, a phenomenon that seems to be an aspect of all contextualizations of history.

}, author = {Andrew Martindale} } @Book Reviews/Comptes-rendus {9093, title = {The McCluskey site}, volume = {8}, year = {1976}, pages = {177-180}, editor = {Ronald J. Mason} } @article {9705, title = {Maple Sugaring Again; or The Dog That Did Nothing in the Night}, journal = {Canadian Journal of Archaeology/Journal canadien d{\textquoteright}arch{\'e}ologie}, volume = {11}, year = {1987}, pages = {099-107}, abstract = {

Negative evidence still remains the most important reason for rejecting the aboriginal use of maple sugar in North America.

}, author = {Carol I. Mason} } @article {12859, title = {Monterey Shells and Trade Copper: A Glimpse into the Early Contact Period from a Nuu-Chah-Nulth Outer-Coast Lookout Site}, journal = {Canadian Journal of Archaeology}, volume = {45}, year = {2021}, pages = {001-019}, abstract = {

The Nuu-chah-nulth of western Vancouver Island used lookout sites on small outer-coast islands to observe the movements of sea mammals and canoes, and later the trading ships arriving with cargoes of new goods. A trench excavated across the upper surface of one such site yielded an artifact assemblage typical of late Nuu-chah-nulth sites, along with radiocarbon dates indicating use over the few centuries prior to contact with Europeans. Three artifacts of introduced materials reveal that this location continued in use into the early decades of contact. Copper and California abalone shells ({\textquotedblleft}Monterey shells{\textquotedblright}) were two of the earliest and most important trade materials during the maritime fur trade. Indigenous demand was for the raw material, which was re-worked into decorative items of traditional form. The excavation results provide a rare glimpse into this early contact period, with no admixture of later manufactured objects. Ethnohistoric and ethnographic sources provide context to interpret these discoveries.

}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.51270/45.1.1}, author = {Alan D. McMillan and Denis E. St. Claire} } @article {9718, title = {Mammal Bone Ornaments and Sub-Adult Burials: A Possible Association in the Late Woodland Period of Manitoba}, journal = {Canadian Journal of Archaeology/Journal canadien d{\textquoteright}arch{\'e}ologie}, volume = {18}, year = {1994}, pages = {049-056}, abstract = {

A number of distinctive bone artifacts from Manitoba are described and discussed. Associational, contextual and radiocarbon data are used to suggest that these objects were part of a pre-interment mortuary ritual specific to pre-adult members of various Late Woodland (and possibly late Middle Woodland) peoples of the Midcontinent.

}, author = {C. Meiklejohn and A.P. Buchner and R.T. Callaghan} } @article {9721, title = {The Mudrick Site: Selkirk in the Saskatchewan Parklands}, journal = {Canadian Journal of Archaeology}, volume = {34}, year = {2010}, pages = {174-211}, abstract = {

The Mudrick site, located in the aspen parkland of north central Saskatchewan, was surface collected by Thomas Smith and Victor Vigrass in the 1950s and 1960s. They recovered hundreds of potsherds as well as arrowheads, end scrapers, biface knives and two ground stone celts. The majority of the 18 vessels represented by the potsherds are Winnipeg Fabric-impressed ware, characteristic of the Selkirk composite. Selkirk components are common in the northern forests but rare in the parklands of Saskatchewan. The southward move of forest-adapted people appears to have been facilitated by amicable social and political relations with parkland residents as indicated by the presence of some Wascana and Mortlach pottery as well as southern lithic materials in the Mudrick assemblage. This southward movement during Selkirk times (ca.\ A.D.\ 1300\–1700) appears to presage the expansion onto the Plains of forest peoples (Crees) in the subsequent fur trade period.

}, author = {David Meyer and Smith, Thomas R.} } @article {9728, title = {More than Meets the Eye: Reconsidering Variability in Iroquoian Ceramics}, journal = {Canadian Journal of Archaeology/Journal canadien d{\textquoteright}arch{\'e}ologie}, volume = {31}, year = {2007}, pages = {143-170}, abstract = {

This paper presents an approach to the analysis of Iroquoian ceramics that goes beyond the traditional normative creation of ethno-chronological typologies to consider pottery as a dynamic material shaped by, and in turn shaping, complex webs of human and material interactions. To accomplish this goal I consider how the shell-tempered pots that appeared in some Neutral Iroquoian villages in the late 16th and 17th centuries AD have been interpreted. I discuss both the hypothesis that they had been made by Fire Nation captives-a typical interpretation in Ontario archaeological writings-and the possibility that they were better suited for cooking maize-an interpretation appearing in archaeometric considerations of northeastern North American shell-tempered pottery. I argue that both interpretations are limited and offer instead an approach inspired by recent writings in ethnoarchaeological ceramic studies, social theory, and the social nature of technology.

}, author = {Kostalena Michelaki} } @Symposium Papers {10988, title = {Mortuary Practices of the Oxbow Complex}, volume = {5}, year = {1981}, pages = {103-117}, abstract = {Using data from the Greenwater Lake, St. Denis and Gray burial sites in Saskatchewan, Oxbow burial patterns are described, and inferences made concerning demography, community patterns, seasonal movements and religious beliefs.}, author = {J.F.V. Millar} } @Book Reviews/Comptes-rendus {9009, title = {Mesolithic Europe}, volume = {34}, year = {2010}, pages = {277-280}, editor = {Laurie Milne} } @Book Reviews/Comptes-rendus {9376, title = {Material Culture of Breweries}, volume = {36}, year = {2012}, pages = {199-201}, editor = {Nina Mittendorf} } @article {9743, title = {The Middle Prehistoric Period and the Archaic Concept in the Middle Mackenzie Valley}, journal = {Canadian Journal of Archaeology/Journal canadien d{\textquoteright}arch{\'e}ologie}, volume = {11}, year = {1987}, pages = {049-074}, abstract = {

The validity of the Archaic stage in general and of the Northern Archaic Tradition in particular are examined as they apply to the Mackenzie River valley in the western Canadian Subarctic. Archaeological data from five Middle Prehistoric complexes are presented along with palaeoenvironmental information, all of which tend to undermine the suggestion of a movement of Archaic people from the northern Plains during the Hypsithermal. Instead, we seem to be looking at the diffusion of a few isolated traits into a long-established boreal forest ecosystem. The Mummy Cave complex on the northern Plains is identified as the probable immediate source of, particularly, side-notched points, which at about this time achieved a continent-wide distribution.

}, author = {David A. Morrison} }