@Editors Notes/Notes du r{\'e}dacteur {11795, title = {Editor{\textquoteright}s Notes}, volume = {42}, year = {2018}, pages = {iii-iv}, author = {Gary Coupland} } @Editors Notes/Notes du r{\'e}dacteur {11123, title = {Editor{\textquoteright}s Notes}, volume = {40}, year = {2016}, pages = {iii-iv}, author = {Gary Coupland} } @article {12921, title = {Emergent Ceramics and Identity at the Fifteenth-Century Iroquoian Keffer Village}, journal = {Canadian Journal of Archaeology}, volume = {45}, year = {2021}, pages = {181-201}, abstract = {

The recent interpretation of ceramic types as fluid and relational (Fowler 2017) has facilitated their use in the exploration of relational identity. In this study, ceramics from the fifteenth-century southern Ontario Iroquoian Keffer (AkGv-14) village are employed in the exploration of matrilineal, matrilocal household self-identification as seen through ceramic communities of practice. The Keffer assemblage is separated into two categories; local tradition ceramics which I suggest represent genealogies of family practice, and non-local tradition pottery, which I propose communicates contemporary relations and long distance interaction. In addition, a new, third category of ceramics is proposed {\textquotedblleft}emergent vessels.{\textquotedblright} Emergent ceramics are materialized in two separate and distinct vessel forms in the collection, the Everted Lip and North Shore Durfee Underlined. Their sudden and geographically restricted materialization reflects the equally sudden appearance of newly emergent facets of the polyvalent identities of potting communities as seen at Keffer and other north shore sites. The short-term production and use of these emergent ceramics attests to the quickly diminishing importance of these new emergent aspects of identity while the ceramics of the latest village occupations verify the endurance and gradual transformation of those facets of identity tied to family genealogy and long distance interaction.

}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.51270/45.2.181}, author = {Susan Dermarkar} } @article {13480, title = {The Excavation of a Stone Cairn Cache in Southern Saskatchewan}, volume = {46}, year = {2022}, pages = {179-193}, abstract = {

In 2018, a stone cairn was discovered on a prominent hilltop in the Missouri Coteau in southern Saskatchewan, not an uncommon discovery. Due to potential impacts from development, a salvage excavation commenced which included the excavation of the entire stone cairn structure and additional subsurface testing in the immediate area. A preliminary interpretation for the stone cairn was its functional use as a navigational marker; however, the initial interpretation was retracted upon the discovery of a cache cavity within the unexpectedly large structure of the stone cairn. Had the excavation not occurred, the stone cairn may have been misinterpreted; this is a common issue at stone cairn sites across the northern Plains.

}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.51270/46.2.179}, author = {Eliann Guinan and Michael Markowski} } @Book Reviews/Comptes-rendus {12864, title = {Engaging Archaeology: 25 Case Studies in Research Practice}, volume = {45}, year = {2021}, pages = {098-100}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.51270/45.1.98}, editor = {George Nicholas} } @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} } @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} }