@Book Reviews/Comptes-rendus {9029,
	title = {Final Report of the 1985 and 1986 Field Seasons at Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump, Alberta},
	volume = {15},
	year = {1991},
	pages = {270-274},
	editor = {Ian Dyck}
}
@article {9574,
	title = {Canadian Prairies Archaeology, 1886{\textendash}1915: Reliance on External Interest and Expertise},
	journal = {Canadian Journal of Archaeology/Journal canadien d{\textquoteright}arch{\'e}ologie},
	volume = {33},
	year = {2009},
	pages = {179-204},
	abstract = {<p>After launching an ambitious program of mid-continental Canadian archaeology in the late 1870s, members of the Historical and Scientific Society of Manitoba suddenly withdrew from field archaeology after 1886. Under political and financial stress, they turned their primary attention to local Euro-Canadian history. The group declined through the turn of the century, but George Bryce and Charles Bell tried to keep interest in Manitoba archaeology alive by appealing to external organizations to take up the work. A number of outsiders did briefly get involved, people and organizations such as T.\&thinsp;H. Lewis and Warren Upham from Minnesota, Henry L. Reynolds from the Bureau of American Ethnology in Washington, Henry Montgomery from the University of Toronto Museum, and organizers for the Archaeological Institute of America. Although the results were mixed, most of these outsiders made improvements to the region\&rsquo;s archaeological record and its interpretation. The Manitoba Society\&rsquo;s final success, on the eve of its own demise, was in helping to create an anthropology division within the National Museum of Canada in 1910. Subsequently, the National Museum commenced archeology in Manitoba in 1912 under W.\&thinsp;B. Nickerson. Nickerson might have solidified the groundwork for a regional archaeology, but his work was aborted in 1915 and, together with earlier attempts, was all but forgotten.</p>},
	author = {Ian Dyck}
}
@Book Reviews/Comptes-rendus {11406,
	title = {The Life and Work of W. B. Nickerson (1865{\textendash}1926) Scientific Archaeology in Central North America},
	volume = {41},
	year = {2017},
	pages = {125-127},
	editor = {Mima Brown Kapches}
}
@Book Reviews/Comptes-rendus {9113,
	title = {Archaeology in Alberta: A View from the New Millennium},
	volume = {28},
	year = {2004},
	pages = {370-372},
	editor = {Ian Dyck}
}
@Conference Paper {10646,
	title = {Earth as Archives: Archaeological Perspectives on Landscape Conservation / . La Terre, grand r{\'e}servoir d{\textquoteright}archives : l{\textquoteright}arch{\'e}olo},
	year = {1997},
	address = {Saskatoon},
	abstract = {Human beings leave numerous traces of their activities on and in the earth. Such evidence and its context, form the basis for archaeological interpretations of human history. Archaeological resources are generally recognized as being legally within the public domain which means that the earth is a form of public archives. Unfortunately, with the rise of world-wide industrialized resource extraction, large portions of that archives have been severely disturbed or destroyed. Heritage conservationists have successfully argued for protection of archaeological resources at the artifact and site levels, but have had difficulty obtaining similar protection at the landscape level. Problems include definition, inventory, misperception of threats, misperception of age, conflicts in use and ownership, ineffective justifications, failure to make common cause, and a preservation irony. In spite of the problems there is a substantial body of experience upon which future archaeological landscape preservation can build.},
	author = {Ian Dyck}
}
@article {9573,
	title = {Solicited Dialogue on "A Never Ending Story"},
	journal = {Canadian Journal of Archaeology/Journal canadien d{\textquoteright}arch{\'e}ologie},
	volume = {18},
	year = {1994},
	pages = {109-112},
	author = {Ian Dyck}
}
@Conference Paper {10650,
	title = {Comparing Ancient Nomads of the Russian Steppes and Northern Plains},
	year = {2008},
	address = {Peterborough},
	abstract = {The Ancient Nomads Project generated the first comparison of ancient pastoral nomads of the Russian Steppes and ancient bison-hunting nomads of the Canadian Prairies. Results are being disseminated in exhibition and book form. The exhibition is organized around nine major themes: (1) culture history, (2) environment, (3) herds, (4) travel, (5) subsistence, (6) dwellings, (7) social life, (8) spiritual life, and (9) warfare and trade. The book expands on the same themes. The project revealed amazing similarities in lifestyle and environment, but also crucial differences due to wild versus domestic herds, pedestrian versus equestrian travel, stone-rich versus stone-poor landscapes, and sparse versus moderately dense populations. It uncovered similarities and differences in the approach to archaeology in the two regions {\textendash} comparable emphases on cultural resource management and culture history; but significant differences in focus {\textendash} camp sites and bison-kill sites in the Northern Plains, human burials in the Russian Steppes. Sharp differences also exist in public reactions to archaeology {\textendash} weak knowledge and variable interest in Canada; substantial knowledge and strong interest in Russia.},
	author = {Ian Dyck and Ponomarenko, Elena}
}
@Book Reviews/Comptes-rendus {9112,
	title = {Americanist Culture History: Fundamentals of Time, Space and Form (Lyman, O{\textquoteright}Brien, and Dunnell, editors) and The Rise and Fall of Culture History},
	volume = {22},
	year = {1999},
	pages = {172-175},
	editor = {Ian Dyck}
}
@Conference Paper {10645,
	title = {A History of Archaeology in the National Museum of Canada, 1911-1950},
	year = {1994},
	address = {Edmonton},
	abstract = {The anthropological interests of the Geological Survey of Canada were given a legislative mandate in 1907. First action on the new mandate was taken in 1910, just before the opening of the new Victoria Memorial Museum Building. With support from the nationalistic Government of Sir Wilfred Laurier, the Geological Survey undertook major expansion and specialization of museum functions including establishment of a new anthropology division with an archaeology section. Harlan Smith, an accomplished midcareer American archaeologist with extensive West Coast Canadian experience, was hired to head the professional archaeology section, his engagement on 15 June 1911 marking the beginning of full-time professional archaeology at the federal level. The archaeology of Canadian native peoples was poorly developed in 1911. In Smith{\textquoteright}s view that of southern British Columbia, for which he was a major contributor, was fairly good. Next best was that of Ontario with its large, but poorly studied collections. Arctic prehistory was beginning its emergence, but for all other areas knowledge was minuscule. Smith{\textquoteright}s plan was to survey the great cultural areas, build reference files, and undertake intensive study of at least one important site in each area in order to create a standard which would facilitate additional studies. The plan got a good start during the first several years, but changes in government and the vicissitudes of two world wars coupled with minor and major economic depressions made the next thirty years very difficult. Nevertheless, staff brought landmark studies to fruition for all culture areas and provided leadership in public education, in situ preservation of archaeological resources, disciplinary development, and attempts to find broader economic and social values in archaeological knowledge. Decades of budget restrictions brought the archaeology section to a low point in the mid 1940s. However when the post World War II economic boom took effect in the Museum, the archaeology section began a renewal which led to the hiring of the first new staff since 1924, the severing of a long association with the Geological Survey of Canada, a marked expansion in funding, and an invigorated program for the 1950s.},
	author = {Ian Dyck}
}
@article {9572,
	title = {Retrospective: Canadian Prairies Archaeology, 1857{\textendash}1886: Exploration and Self Development},
	journal = {Canadian Journal of Archaeology/Journal canadien d{\textquoteright}arch{\'e}ologie},
	volume = {33},
	year = {2009},
	pages = {001-039},
	abstract = {<p>Systematic archaeology is generally said to have begun in the Canadian prairies during the late 1930s. Manitoba, however, experienced a much earlier beginning which is now little known and sometimes held up to scorn. Launched as part of government-sponsored explorations in 1857, archaeological development accelerated after 1879 under the auspices of the Historical and Scientific Society of Manitoba. The Society undertook an ambitious program which broached the most significant questions of the day\&mdash;about the content, distribution and origin of burial mounds. Within less than a decade, they had carried out excavations and surveys from northwestern Ontario to southeastern Saskatchewan while describing their results in local, national, and international publications, and establishing a public museum for their collections. Initially, their work received strong public and political support, but support waned following the second Riel Rebellion.</p>},
	author = {Ian Dyck}
}
@Conference Paper {10649,
	title = {EVIDENCE FOR INITIATION OF THE BESANT COMPLEX ON THE NORTHERN PLAINS AT 2500B.P.},
	year = {1991},
	address = {St.John{\textquoteright}s},
	abstract = {The Sjovold Site (EiNs-4) in south central Saskatchewan contains 21 cultural components beginning with the Hanna complex some 4,100 years ago and ending with recent historic materials. Although there is a general correspondence between the sequence of occupations at the Sjovold site and the culture/historical sequence expected for the region, there are anomalies among some of the Sjovold components of the Late Middle Period. One would expect a sequence of Pelican Lake occupations dating from 3000 to 1850 B.P. followed by, and perhaps slightly intermixed with, a series of Besant components dating from 2050 to 1150 B.P. However, Layer XIV marks a distinct interruption in the Pelican Lake sequence of corner notched forms at a date several hundred years earlier than expected. Layer XIVs sample of well made side notched projectile points is associated with a date of 2500{\textpm}85 radiocarbon years B.P. After a review of archaeological literature pertaining to the Northern Plains and surrounding regions, I conclude that the side notched projectile points in Layer XIV are most similar stylistically to those of the Besant complex. The predommance of Knife River Flint, an exotic chipped stone material, is another Layer XIV trait which further supports a Besant identity. I propose, therefore, that Layer XIV material represents an early variant of the Besant complex whose temporal range should be extended backward to 2500 B.P. A noteworthy consequence of this proposal is that the onset of Besant on the Plains now comes close to the beginning of the Sub-Atlantic climatic episode when the Boreal forest of the Western Interior shifted into its historic position bordering the Northern Plains. Moreover, a 2500 B.P. initial date for Besant puts the Northern Plains culture/historical sequence into step with major developments in neighbouring regions, developments such as the initiation of the Woodland Period in the Mississippi Valley of the Eastern Woodlands, and the introduction of bow and arrow technology in the Eastern Great Basin.},
	author = {Ian Dyck}
}
@Book Reviews/Comptes-rendus {9098,
	title = {Archaeological Research in the Kame Hills Locality of Southern Indian Lake},
	volume = {7},
	year = {1983},
	pages = {245-246},
	editor = {Ian Dyck}
}
@Conference Paper {10644,
	title = {The Last Quarter Century in Canadian Plains Archaeology},
	year = {2000},
	address = {Ottawa},
	abstract = {Over the past 25 years Canadian Plains archaeology has been transformed from a small-scale, modestly funded, self-disciplined enterprise, based in provincial museums, archaeological societies, universities and national historic parks, into a variable-scale enterprise dominated by cultural resource management imperatives, funded by industrial developers, regulated by provincial governments, and sensitive to aboriginal interests. This paper reviews important developments during this period - in orientation, methods, substantive results and information dissemination.},
	author = {Ian Dyck}
}
@Book Reviews/Comptes-rendus {9228,
	title = {Plains Indian Rock Art},
	volume = {26},
	year = {2002},
	pages = {199-202},
	editor = {Ian Dyck}
}
@Conference Paper {10648,
	title = {HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON A NINETEENTH-CENTURY COLLECTION OF ABORIGINAL POTTERY FROM ALBERTA},
	year = {1996},
	address = {Halifax},
	abstract = {Among the earliest of Alberta collections in the Canadian Museum of Civilization are a couple of handfuls of poorly documented potsherds belonging to a single aboriginal vessel. Reconstruction shows that this was a medium-size globular pot with a vertical cord-impressed body surface, slightly ridged shoulder, near vertical rim, and a flat lip with diagonal notch-like incisions. Historical research reveals that it was collected on the Red Deer River in 1889 by the Geological Survey of Canada{\textquoteright}s first full-time museum employee, Thomas C. Weston. It also shows that collection occurred at an intermediate stage in northern Plains ceramic studies, after the era of manufacture and use, but before the development of anthropological concepts for ceramic analysis. This may account for its lack of analysis during the nineteenth century. Though not well known, this pottery has figured in various twentieth-century ceramic studies. Recent comparison with better documented specimens indicates a probable age in the range of AD 1,100-1,400. Cultural association appears to lie with a poorly established grouping variously known as Ethridge ware, Wascana ware and Late Variant Saskatchewan Basin complex.},
	author = {Ian Dyck}
}
@Book Reviews/Comptes-rendus {9041,
	title = {Material Culture of the Bjorklund Site},
	volume = {7},
	year = {1983},
	pages = {119},
	editor = {Ian Dyck}
}
@Conference Paper {10643,
	title = {Sources of Chippable Petrified Peat and Wood along the South Saskatchewan River},
	year = {1998},
	address = {Victoria},
	abstract = {Although not well-known as chippable stone types, petrified peat and petrified wood were once commonly used for this purpose in south central Saskatchewan, particularly along the South Saskatchewan River. At some sites as much as 75\% of chipping debris is comprised of these materials. In 1997, an area containing several sites with high proportions of petrified peat and wood debris, near Outlook, Saskatchewan, was searched for possible sources. Since the whole region is covered with glacial drift, secondary sources are the only possibility. Occasional surface occurrences on upland and valley slopes turned out to be unlikely options because of extreme scarcity, general small size, and low quality of relevant materials. The most likely sources are fairly dense concentrations of moderate-size slabs and blocks of good quality material in two small river-edge localities. The geologic circumstances and processes which create this type of concentration are still only partly understood.},
	author = {Ian Dyck}
}
@Book Reviews/Comptes-rendus {9345,
	title = {Light from Ancient Campfires: Archaeological Evidence for Native Lifeways on the Northern Plains},
	volume = {38},
	year = {2014},
	pages = {336-339},
	editor = {Ian Dyck}
}
@Book Reviews/Comptes-rendus {9114,
	title = {A Reanalysis of the Long Creek Site: 45 Years after the Excavation},
	volume = {32},
	year = {2008},
	pages = {145-148},
	editor = {Ian Dyck}
}
@Conference Paper {10647,
	title = {Ancient Cold Weather Adaptations in the Northern Great Plains},
	year = {2001},
	address = {Banff},
	abstract = {People have lived in the northern part of the Great Plains of North America since the end of the Pleistocene era. Throughout this long period of occupation, the region has been subject to seasonal extremes in climate. This paper surveys ethnohistorical and archaeological records for information about cultural adaptations to cold weather, specifically, adaptations in use before the arrival of Euro-American agriculturists. Important adaptations included: (1) tailored skin clothing; (2) portable tipi housing; (3) communal and individual hunting methods; (4) food storage by freezing, caching, drying, and the use of domestic animals as food; (5) transportation by snowshoes, toboggans and sleds; (6) seasonal distribution of occupation sites; (7) special kinds of winter recreation; and (8) reckoning of time by the passage of winters and the keeping of long-term histories known as winter counts. The survey shows that ethnohistoric records provide a vivid depiction of these adaptations during early historic times. Archaeological evidence reveals the great time depth for several of the practices, changes that occurred in some, and a means for resolution of ethnohistoric problems such as the distribution of cold weather sites.},
	author = {Ian Dyck}
}
