@article {13479, title = {Blazing the Trail: Geographic Information Systems Analysis of the Old North Trail}, journal = {Canadian Journal of Archaeology}, volume = {46}, year = {2022}, pages = {145-178}, abstract = {

The Old North Trail was the main north-to-south link running along the eastern flank of the Rocky Mountains, within the homeland of the Blackfoot people. While travelling along this trail, human groups stopped at resource patches and important landmarks, leaving evidence of their passing in the form of archaeological sites. This paper examines the historical and archaeological evidence for the Old North Trail and discusses use of leastcost path analysis within a geographic information system framework to model the route of the trail. Where differences exist between the location of least-cost paths and the course of the Old North Trail, the {\textquotedblleft}pull{\textquotedblright} factors that may have drawn human groups away from the most efficient route across the landscape will be explored. This analysis suggests there was a sacred dimension to this landscape, with features of ecological and ideological importance affecting human movement through the region.

}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.51270/46.2.145}, author = {Lindsay Amundsen-Meyer} } @Book Reviews/Comptes-rendus {13800, title = {The Birth of Polynesia: An Archaeological Journey Through the Kingdom of Tonga}, volume = {47}, year = {2023}, pages = {87-89}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.51270/47.1.87}, editor = {Sean P. Connaughton} } @article {13853, title = {Bringing in the Children: The Impact of Social Archaeology on Archaeological Studies of Childhood in Southern Ontario}, journal = {Canadian Journal of Archaeology}, volume = {47}, year = {2023}, pages = {209-231}, abstract = {

In this paper, I present a historical overview to evaluate methodological and theoretical contexts that have impacted the study of Indigenous childhood in archaeology in the Great Lakes region. Until recently, the study of childhood practice has been largely overlooked, and our understanding of childhood has been limited to bioarchaeological studies of ancestral remains to address questions of health, diet, and disease, with less focus on childhood practices. Rather than a paucity of empirical data, I suggest that it is a theoretical emphasis on cultural history and its legacy that has resulted in restrictive models. Recently, emerging scholars have contributed significantly to the development of methodological and theoretical frameworks and have begun asking broader questions about identity and knowledge production. In this paper, I highlight the impact social archaeology has had on the archaeological research of Indigenous childhood in the Great Lakes region. I follow by identifying trends and future directions of childhood studies that are currently being pursued in the Great Lakes region. Growing our understanding of childhood in the past not only fleshes out past actors in archaeological narratives but also enhances understanding of broader social and economic practices in the region and provides frameworks to contribute to the broader theoretical arguments taking place in the anthropology of childhood.

}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.51270/47.2.209}, author = {Steven G. H. Dorland} } @article {14058, title = {Backdirt and Bureaucracy Revisited: An Analysis of Research Trends in New Brunswick{\textquoteright}s Archaeology Practice Using Historic Data}, journal = {Canadian Journal of Archaeology}, volume = {47}, year = {2023}, pages = {178-208}, abstract = {

Since the Environmental Impact Assessment Regulation - Clean Environment Act came into force in 1987 and the subsequent development of an archaeology industry pertaining to environmental impact assessment{\textendash}related work, there has been a dramatic shift in the character of research conducted in archaeology in the province. A discipline that was once dominated by academic and problem-oriented research, archaeology in New Brunswick has become overshadowed by industry and the rise of cultural resource management (CRM) archaeology. The role of government archaeologists in the province has also shifted from coastal salvage and problem-oriented archaeology towards oversight of a growing CRM industry{\textemdash}an industry the New Brunswick government now both participates in and regulates. We use available archaeological permit data to track the volume of archaeological fieldwork conducted in the province over a 35-year period in an attempt to describe the current archaeological milieu in the region.

}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.51270/47.2.178}, author = {Trevor C. Dow and M. Gabriel Hrynick and Kenneth R. Holyoke} } @article {12566, title = {Broadening $\#$MeToo: Tracking Dynamics in Canadian Archaeology Through a Survey on Experiences Within the Discipline}, journal = {Canadian Journal of Archaeology/Journal canadien d{\textquoteright}arch{\'e}ologie}, volume = {44}, year = {2020}, pages = {020-047}, abstract = {

The $\#$MeToo movement has turned global attention to structural power differentials grounded in gender, race, sexual orientation, and other aspects of identity, leading archaeologists to confront injustice in different sectors of our discipline, with a focus on sexual harassment and sexual assault. In 2019, the Canadian Archaeological Association{\textquoteright}s Working Group on Equity and Diversity conducted a survey of Canadian archaeologists to identify the extent of both sexualized and non-sexualized forms of discrimination, exploitation, harassment, and violence in our field. Our survey yielded 564 responses from archaeologists representing a wide range of genders, ages, career stages, and sectors. The results indicate a large portion of Canadian archaeologists have had negative experiences in the course of their work and study. This first stage of analysis focuses on demographic trends among survey respondents and noteworthy differences in their experiences based on gender, career stage, and participation in the academic or cultural resource management sector.

}, author = {Lisa Hodgetts and Kisha Supernant and Natasha Lyons and John R. Welch} } @article {9656, title = {Before and After the Fire: Archaeological Investigations at a Little Passage/Beothuk Encampment in Trinity Bay, Newfoundland}, journal = {Canadian Journal of Archaeology}, volume = {39}, year = {2015}, pages = {1-30}, abstract = {

Archaeological investigations indicate that the Beothuk had a significant presence in the Trinity Bay region of southeastern Newfoundland in the centuries prior to the arrival of European fishermen in the 16th century. The Beothuk presence in this area continued for over a century following contact, but in time diminished as European activity and settlement increased. Eventually the Beothuk were forced to abandon the region all together. This paper examines this process as it played out in Stock Cove, the location of a significant late {\textquotedblleft}prehistoric{\textquotedblright} and probable historic Beothuk campsite. Excavations in Stock Cove attest to the importance of this area to the Beothuk and their ancestors, and with its abandonment, a sense of what was lost.

}, author = {Donald H. Holly Jr. and Christopher B. Wolff and John C. Erwin} } @Book Reviews/Comptes-rendus {11407, title = {Breaking Ground: The Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe and the Unearthing of Tse-whit-zen Village}, volume = {41}, year = {2017}, pages = {128-131}, editor = {Chelsea Meloche} } @Book Reviews/Comptes-rendus {13192, title = {Blurring Timescapes, Subverting Erasure. Remembering Ghosts on the Margins of History}, volume = {46}, year = {2022}, pages = {138-140}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.51270/46.1.138}, editor = {George Nicholas} } @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 {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} } @article {11808, title = {Breaking Lipids to Enrich the Past: Looking Up to the Next 50 Years of Organic Residue Analysis}, journal = {Canadian Journal of Archaeology}, volume = {42}, year = {2018}, pages = {124-136}, author = {Karine Tach{\'e}} }