@article {12927, title = {Indigenous Human Remains Database from Archaeological Sites in Qu{\'e}bec: Preliminary Results}, journal = {Canadian Journal of Archaeology}, volume = {45}, year = {2021}, pages = {330-354}, abstract = {

This paper presents the preliminary results of a project initiated by the Mohawk Council of Kahnawa:ke and the Groupe de recherche Arch{\'e}oSociale/Arch{\'e}oScience (Universit{\'e} de Montr{\'e}al) to create a database of archaeological sites in Quebec that included Indigenous human remains. This document will be a useful tool for the repatriation/rematriation process. Using existing inventories, the database collated various data points for each site, such as the Borden code, location, date, minimal number of individuals (MNI), location of remains, reports, etc. Three site categories were identified: 1)\ those describing the discovery of human remains associated with Indigenous people (103 sites); 2)\ those with-out skeletal remains despite mentioning the presence of burial(s) (8 sites); and 3)\ those not reporting any information (81 sites). From these sites, information on more than 678 individuals have been collected so far. Site mapping has allowed the visualization of site distribution spatially and through time. Further research is needed to clarify the cultural affiliation and the storage location of these human remains.

}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.51270/45.2.330}, author = {Jesseca Paquette and Isabelle Ribot and Christian Gates St-Pierre and Christine Zachary-Deom and Gaetan Nolet} } @article {11401, title = {Burin and Spall Use at an Inland Arctic Small Tool Tradition Site, Southern Baffin Island, Nunavut}, volume = {41}, year = {2017}, pages = {63-78}, abstract = {

Burins and burin spalls are among the most distinctive Arctic Small Tool tradition flaked stone items but questions remain about how and for what purposes they were used. A study of the burin spalls from a multi-component site located in the interior of Baffin Island, LdFa-1, reveals differences in use-wear from coastal sites that may reflect different activities, and demonstrates that burins and burin spall tools were likely expediently manufactured and discarded.

}, author = {Robert W. Park and S. Brooke Milne and Douglas R. Stenton} } @article {12540, title = {Exploring Community Formation and Coalescence at the Late Fourteenth{\textendash}Early Fifteenth-Century Tillsonburg Village Site (AfHe-38)}, journal = {Canadian Journal of Archaeology/Journal canadien d{\textquoteright}arch{\'e}ologie}, volume = {43}, year = {2019}, pages = {162-200}, abstract = {

The concept of community coalescence involves the aggregation of previously separate social groups into one communal settlement. This has facilitated a greater understanding of Iroquoian community formation during the Late Woodland of southern Ontario. It is explored as the predominant conceptual approach to better understand the formation of the Tillsonburg Village{\textquoteright}s (AfHe-38) community plan, however, other processes relating to the contemporaneity of village areas or houses are also considered. The site is located in Tillsonburg, Ontario and dates from the late fourteenth to early fifteenth century (AD 1350{\textendash}1420). This paper explores the village{\textquoteright}s particularly large and dispersed community plan through an intra-site analysis of ceramic vessels and longhouse attributes, as these are considered useful indicators of social, organizational, and temporal processes. Spatial and statistical analyses are used to explore spatial patterning of attributes among their associated contexts. The results suggest that the Tillsonburg occupants were experimenting with formative processes of community coalescence; with groups interacting and living together in one settlement, yet remaining socially and spatially distinct within the larger village community.

}, author = {Rebecca Parry} } @Book Reviews/Comptes-rendus {14236, title = {Heritage Ecologies}, volume = {48}, year = {2024}, pages = {172-174}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.51270/48.1.172}, editor = {A. Katherine Patton} } @article {11537, title = {Elements of an Ancient Tsimshian Dwelling: An Archaeology of Architecture in Prince Rupert Harbour, British Columbia}, volume = {41}, year = {2017}, pages = {269-307}, abstract = {Recent, renewed interest in the study of ancient indigenous NWC architecture has done much to augment our understanding of social, political, and economic relations in this region in the past. These studies have, by and large, emphasized architectural form over the practice or process of construction. Yet in other regions of the world, scholars are increasingly examining construction techniques in order comprehend the kinds of decisions that individuals and groups made with respect to building. This paper examines architectural remains from a small Middle Period (ca.~3500{\textendash}1500~BP) village site in Prince Rupert Harbour, British Columbia, with the explicit intent of shedding light on the kinds of structures that the Tsimshian built in the past and, in particular, the way in which small households constructed domestic dwellings. Results suggest that, in this case, walls were not mortised as they had been in the recent past. Rather, walls appear to have been constructed using a tying and sewing technique. I suggest that this household might have used tying and sewing for a variety of reasons that include household and community size, technology, mobility, and skill.}, author = {A. Katherine Patton} } @article {13798, title = {Change Detection Analysis Using Drone-Based Photogrammetry for Long-Term Archaeological Site Erosion Monitoring}, volume = {47}, year = {2023}, pages = {49-64}, abstract = {

This paper presents a rapid, cost-effective, and non-specialist approach to long-term archaeological site monitoring that is repeatable and affordable. Advances in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-based photogrammetry allow for the creation of multi-temporal three-dimensional (3D) models that permit accurate and in-depth analysis and quantification of landscape change through time. This paper presents a case study of aerial-based photogrammetric datasets using UAVs (i.e.,\ drones) to conduct change detection analysis for monitoring continued erosion threatening an Indigenous buffalo jump in Alberta, Canada. The results demonstrate which areas of the site experienced the most significant change over a period of four years. By bridging gaps between traditional field survey and satellite-scale observations of impacts to large archaeological site complexes, UAV monitoring programs may become increasingly important as anthropogenic climate change continues to threaten heritage sites in Canada.

}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.51270/47.1.49}, author = {Kelsey Pennanen} } @article {12780, title = {A GIS Analysis of Intra-Site Spatial Patterning at the Early Paleoindian Mt.~Albion West Site (AhGw-131)}, journal = {Canadian Journal of Archaeology}, volume = {44}, year = {2020}, pages = {222{\textendash}252 }, abstract = {

The Mt. Albion West (AhGw-131) Early Paleoindian site is one of only a handful of Late Pleistocene sites in Ontario. Excavated by Archaeological Services Inc. (ASI) between 1998 and 2004, the site is situated adjacent to the Red Hill valley on the Niagara Escarpment in Hamilton, Ontario. The project yielded detailed analyses concerning the tools and debitage recovered from the four discrete artifact concentration areas at this site in addition to a brief assessment of potentially significant intra-site patterning within one locus. In this paper, the four activity areas from Mt. Albion West are analyzed using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to investigate these spatial relationships with an eye toward interpreting the duration and frequency of the site{\textquoteright}s occupation(s) as well as its function(s) within the broader Gainey settlement system.

}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.51270/44.2.222}, author = {Amelia K. Pilon and Christopher M. Watts} } @article {11039, title = {Below the Falls; An Ancient Cultural Landscape in the Centre of (Canada{\textquoteright}s National Capital Region) Gatineau}, journal = {Canadian Journal of Archaeology/Journal canadien d{\textquoteright}arch{\'e}ologie}, volume = {39}, year = {2015}, pages = {257-293}, abstract = {

Recently discovered information clearly identifies Hull Landing in Gatineau as the location of a burial place first documented in 1843 and, since the late nineteenth century, believed to have been located across the river in Ottawa. It appears to have been chosen for the burial of generations of people beginning sometime between 4,500 and 4,900 years ago. That same location was the beginning of a major portage. Nearby was a place of great spiritual significance and power: the Chaudi{\`e}re Falls. The delta of the Gatineau River downstream from Hull Landing was a summer gathering place with a wealth of food and lithic resources. People travelled down the Gatineau, Rideau and Ottawa rivers to meet, trade and exchange information beginning some 4,600 years ago. When combined with additional archaeological evidence, accumulated over the past 170 years, it is now apparent that the north shore of the Ottawa River between the Chaudi{\`e}re Falls and the mouth of the Gatineau River constituted a cultural landscape that had been used for somewhere on the order of four to five millennia.

}, author = {Jean-Luc Pilon and Randy Boswell} } @Book Reviews/Comptes-rendus {11251, title = {Ladies of the Canyons: A League of Extraordinary Women and Their Adventures in the American Southwest}, volume = {40}, year = {2016}, pages = {352{\textendash}355}, editor = {Laurie Milne} } @Book Reviews/Comptes-rendus {12176, title = {The Last House at Bridge River: The Archaeology of an Aboriginal Household in British Columbia During the Fur Trade Period}, volume = {43}, year = {2019}, pages = {108-110}, editor = {Jesse Morin} }