@Book Reviews/Comptes-rendus {9168, title = {The Mortlach Phase}, volume = {28}, year = {2004}, pages = {373-377} } @article {9615, title = {New Solitudes: Conflicting World Views in the Context of Contemporary Northern Resource Development}, journal = {Canadian Journal of Archaeology/Journal canadien d{\textquoteright}arch{\'e}ologie}, volume = {19}, year = {1995}, pages = {003-018}, abstract = {

Human skeletal remains were encountered during construction of the High Falls hydro dam in northern Ontario. Salvage excavations were conducted under the authority of the Ontario Cemeteries Act with supervision by Native Elders. These Elders provided information about traditional Ojibwe spirituality, and the ongoing relationship between the living and the dead involving sacred waterfalls as one means of supernatural communication. This information greatly enriched the archaeological interpretation, but also highlighted profound cultural differences between Native people and non-Native land managers and resource developers. These differences threaten resolution of an acrimonious political and legal dispute, and identify weaknesses in current environmental assessment procedures.

} } @article {9614, title = {Archaeological Site Distributions and Contents: Modeling Late Precontact Blackduck Land Use in the Northeastern Plains}, journal = {Canadian Journal of Archaeology/Journal canadien d{\textquoteright}arch{\'e}ologie}, volume = {31}, year = {2007}, pages = {93-136}, abstract = {

Late pre-contact Blackduck archaeological sites demonstrate considerable variability in landscape associations across their geographic range. When coupled with ethnohistoric information, a sample of sites from the prairie-parklands of southern Manitoba and the boreal forest of northwestern Ontario suggest divergent land-use strategies and economic orientations. At issue is the development of plausible models that encompass the range of factors affecting Blackduck land use, and which might account for this adaptation variability. This includes consideration of broad-ranging cultural influences, the bio-diversity of the regions considered, and the impacts of the intensely seasonal climate. Also important is the recognition that the contemporary site ecological contexts might be quite different from those that existed at the time of interest. When inter-site differences in land use and economy are considered in terms of seasonally-driven shifts in political economy, less dramatic contrasts between biomes are indicated. Rather than indicating substantive cultural transformation across the biomes, the variability reflects reworking of pre-existing socio-political conditions, coupled with new means and modes of production.

} } @article {9613, title = {The Middleman Fur Trade and Slot Knives: Selective Integration of European Technology at the Mortlach Twin Fawns Site (DiMe-23)}, journal = {Canadian Journal of Archaeology/Journal canadien d{\textquoteright}arch{\'e}ologie}, volume = {31}, year = {2007}, pages = {137-162}, abstract = {

The Twin Fawns Site represents a Mortlach occupation within the Lauder Sandhills of southwestern Manitoba, Canada. This proto-contact site contains lithic, ceramic and faunal materials, reflecting the full range of traditional technology associated with this Late Plains Woodland archaeological entity. The only direct indication of the site\&$\#$39;s proto-contact character derives from a single radiocarbon date and a knife composed of a bison bone handle inset with a piece of brass sheet metal. No other direct evidence of European technology has been encountered. The complete lack of small, easily lost, and generally ubiquitous European trade goods is particularly noteworthy. The narrow range and careful curation of European technology offers insight into the nature of the early fur trade era, and the processes by which northern Plains Aboriginal people chose to integrate foreign technology.

} } @article {9612, title = {Archaeological Predictive Modelling in the Boreal Forest: No Easy Answers}, journal = {Canadian Journal of Archaeology/Journal canadien d{\textquoteright}arch{\'e}ologie}, volume = {24}, year = {2000}, pages = {041-076}, abstract = {

Archaeological resources in the Canadian forest regions are threatened by mechanized forest harvest and regeneration activities. Given the huge scale of forestry operations and the current inadequacy of the heritage resource inventory, conventional CRM orientations are inadequate. This has resulted in considerable interest in the application of archaeological predictive models to forest harvest planning. This paper reviews several approaches to predictive modelling, and offers \&$\#$39;cautionary tales\&$\#$39; outlining some of the problems that must be addressed before this methodology is routinely used in forest harvest planning.

} } @Conference Paper {10955, title = {VICKERS FOCUS OCCUPATION OF SOUTHWESTERN MANITOBA: ISSUES OF ENVIRONMENTAL ADAPTATION AND CULTURAL ORIGINS}, year = {1996}, address = {Halifax}, abstract = {Archaeological reconnaissance and excavation in the Lauder Sandhills of southwestern Manitoba has revealed a dense cluster of late Pre-Contact archaeological sites that can be termed culturally exotic. These sites relate to the Vickers Focus that is believed to derive from the Missouri and Mississippi River drainage basins of Minnesota, Iowa and the Dakotas. After two field seasons of reconnaissance, at least seven sites have been recorded within less than 2 square kilometres: more than tripling the former inventory of Vickers Focus sites in Manitoba. This begs the question, what environmental conditions attracted these people to the Sandhills locality, and also from what cultural milieu these people derived. Palaeo-environmental reconstructions indicate that they were attracted to a rich ecotone composed of wetlands and deciduous forest groves surrounded by mixed grass prairie. We further propose that Vickers Focus reflects a northerly expression of the late Plains Woodland Tradition, with as yet undetermined linkages to the Plains Village groups who brought sedentary horticultural village life to the eastern Plains.} }