@Book Reviews/Comptes-rendus {13189, title = {Playing with Things: Engaging with Moche Sex Pots}, volume = {46}, year = {2022}, pages = {131-132}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.51270/46.1.131}, editor = {Aleksa K. Alaica} } @article {11935, title = {The Pierce-Embree Site: A Palaeoindian Findspot from Southwestern Nova Scotia}, volume = {42}, year = {2018}, pages = {255-262}, abstract = {

The Pierce-Embree site is a recently discovered Palaeoindian findspot from southwestern Nova Scotia. Located on the Sable River Estuary, it is a formerly inland location which is now on the shore of a long inlet of the Atlantic Ocean. The site where the artifacts were deposited is now apparently destroyed because of sea-level rise and associated inundation/erosion. The fluted point and the spall-scraper recovered from the site are stylistically similar to artifacts dating to the Early and Middle Palaeoindian periods (12,900{\textendash}11,600 cal BP). This discover y highlights the alarming impact of erosion on the archaeological record of Nova Scotia{\textquoteright}s South Shore, and underlines the importance of community engagement and outreach when conducting survey projects.

}, author = {Matthew Betts and M. Gabriel Hrynick and Alexandre Pelletier- Michaud} } @article {11402, title = {Pleistocene Horse and Possible Human Association in Central Alberta, 12,700 Years Ago}, volume = {41}, year = {2017}, pages = {79-96}, abstract = {

Materials recently collected from the shoreline of the Brazeau reservoir in west-central Alberta include a number of Paleoindian artifacts and a set of six articulated mandibular teeth from the genus Equus. The heavily weathered horse teeth were identified as most similar to the caballine equids that became extinct in North American at the end of the Pleistocene. An average of four AMS radiocarbon dates place the age of the teeth at ~12,700 calibrated years before present. Early style artifacts recovered from the reservoir include two fluted points, a biface cache, and several other Paleoindian points. No artifacts were directly associated with the teeth, but nearby fluted points are likely coeval and suggestive of an association. The presence of Pleistocene horse 12,700 years ago directly within the Ice-Free Corridor (IFC) has a bearing on the debate concerning the timing of the opening of the IFC and on the environmental conditions within the corridor. Data presented here indicate an open IFC in west-central Alberta by at least 12,700 years ago and an environment fully capable of supporting large game animals, and by extension human hunters.

}, author = {Jack W. Brink and Christina I. Barr{\'o}n-Ortiz and Kathy Loftis and Robert J. Speakman} } @article {11398, title = {The Pender Canal Site and the Beginnings of the Northwest Coast Cultural System}, journal = {Canadian Journal of Archaeology/Journal canadien d{\textquoteright}arch{\'e}ologie}, volume = {41}, year = {2017}, pages = {1-29}, abstract = {

Data from the Pender Canal site excavations relevant to the time and place of origin of the Northwest Coast cultural system are presented with calibrated and new marine reservoir corrected radiocarbon dates. The emphasis is on the evidence for art, ceremonialism, and personal adornment present in the 4500 to 2600 cal B.P. time period, and their relevance as indicators of early socio-cultural complexity.

}, author = {Roy L. Carlson and Paul Szpak and Michael Richards} } @Book Reviews/Comptes-rendus {9359, title = {People of the Middle Fraser Canyon: An Archaeological History}, volume = {39}, year = {2015}, pages = {142-144}, editor = {Terence Clark} } @Book Reviews/Comptes-rendus {13483, title = {Prehistoric Games of North American Indians: Subarctic to Mesoamerica}, volume = {46}, year = {2022}, pages = {200-202}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.51270/46.2.200}, editor = {Susannah Clinker} } @article {12779, title = {Precontact Native Copper Innovation in British Columbia}, journal = {Canadian Journal of Archaeology}, volume = {44}, year = {2020}, pages = {185{\textendash}122}, abstract = {

Copper has figured prominently in discussions of social complexity among Northwest Coast Cultures. Coppers, shield-like sheets of copper variable in size, were a form of lineage wealth displayed, gifted, or ritually destroyed at potlatches; and copper artifacts have been recovered from human burials. The former use of copper is well-documented ethnographically and historically while the latter phenomenon is less well understood. This paper provides an overview of the occurrence of copper in precontact archaeological contexts in British Columbia using published and unpublished literature. Our investigation is framed within a Behavioral Archaeology approach that elicits ideas on copper innovation and all that it entailed. We find that copper is rare in precontact contexts from a province-wide perspective; there was likely more than one instance of native copper innovation; and contrary to previous suggestions, the copper-rich Dene region of south-central Alaska and southwestern Yukon cannot account for most of the precontact examples of copper use in the province. We offer some hypotheses to explain the precontact distribution of copper in BC, including both local invention and diffusion, not in an attempt to deliver the final verdict on this topic, but rather, to stimulate additional research.

}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.51270/44.2.185}, author = {H. Kory Cooper and Garett Hunt and Nicholas Waber and Carey Gray} } @article {11802, title = {Place-making in Canadian Archaeology}, journal = {Canadian Journal of Archaeology}, volume = {42}, year = {2018}, pages = {046-056}, author = {John L. Creese} } @Book Reviews/Comptes-rendus {11942, title = {Pisskan: Interpreting First Peoples Bison Kills at Heritage Parks}, volume = {42}, year = {2018}, pages = {283-286}, editor = {Laurie Milne} } @article {11403, title = {Pre-contact Pottery Tempering Practices at Sipiwesk Lake, Manitoba: The Effects of Grit Tempering on Drying and Firing}, volume = {41}, year = {2017}, pages = {97-116}, abstract = {

This report presents the results of an experiment designed to examine the effects of grit tempering on the shrinkage of clays used to manufacture Middle and Late Woodland pottery from Sipiwesk Lake in northern Manitoba. A single previous experiment by Corenblum and Syms (1977) using clay from southern Manitoba found that grit tempering had little effect on the shrinkage of clays; it was proposed that the use of temper by pre-contact potters may have been a practice driven by cultural choice as opposed to technical necessity. Our experiment analyzed the plasticity and shrinkage of clay briquettes and tiles from Sipiwesk Lake in northern Manitoba that were untempered or tempered with different proportions of a grit (10{\textendash}30 percent) composition comparable to that used by pre-contact potters. Our study shows that adding grit temper increased the plasticity of raw clays (their workability) and reduced the amount of shrinkage experienced during drying and firing. Our conclusions directly contrast Corenblum and Syms{\textquoteright} findings, but do confirm grit temper is not necessary to successfully manufacture a Middle or Late Woodland pot. Based upon these new data we then address the theoretical issue of whether it is useful to distinguish {\textquotedblleft}cultural choice{\textquotedblright} from {\textquotedblleft}technical necessity{\textquotedblright} as alternative explanations for manufacturing practices.

}, author = {Kent D. Fowler and Kate Basco and Mostafa Fayek} } @article {11037, title = {Portages and Lithic Procurement in the Northeastern Interior: A Case Study from the Mill Brook Stream Site, Lower Saint John River Valley, New Brunswick, Canada}, journal = {Canadian Journal of Archaeology/Journal canadien d{\textquoteright}arch{\'e}ologie}, volume = {39}, year = {2015}, pages = {213-240}, abstract = {

Researchers have recognized the importance of portage routes to Pre-contact Aboriginal people in the Northeast of North America since the late nineteenth century. However, little explicit attention has been paid to identifying and interpreting possible archaeological signatures for portage routes. Here we offer the Mill Brook Stream site as a component of a portage which provided a two-way link to Washademoak Lake, the source for Washademoak Multi-coloured Chert, with New Brunswick{\textquoteright}s Lower Saint John River Valley. We analyze the site in terms of its geographic criteria, its location in relation to the end of canoe navigability, and through the use of a heat-treating experiment. We draw analogies between Historic period accounts of portages and archaeological evidence at Mill Brook Stream; combined, this information is used to outline a correlate for portage-related sites associated with bulk procurement. To facilitate this discussion, we include a glossary of terms to describe portages and portage-related activities.

}, author = {Kenneth R. Holyoke and M. Gabriel Hrynick} } @article {13797, title = {Proteins and Our Past: An Exploration of Human Bone Protein from the Eighteenth-Century Fortress of Louisbourg, Nova Scotia, and Its Potential Applications in Bioarchaeological Research}, volume = {47}, year = {2023}, pages = {23-48}, abstract = {

Bioarchaeologists can further investigate human bone metabolism at the biomolecular level by incorporating biochemical methods into their research. Recently, there has been a focus on osteocalcin, an abundant non-collagenous bone protein, because of its clinically identified relationship with biological factors (i.e., age and sex), activity, and pathological conditions (i.e.,\ disease). For this study, osteocalcin was extracted and quantified from the femora of 27 individuals from the Fortress of Louisbourg (1713{\textendash}1758) skeletal collection to explore if the clinical relationship between osteocalcin and sex, age, activity, and pathological conditions can also be established in archaeological bone. However, no significant relationships between osteocalcin concentrations and biological factors (i.e., age and sex), activity, or pathological conditions were identified. This is the first study to quantify osteocalcin from archaeological human skeletal remains from a Canadian context and provides another example of how this method may be used to study stress in bioarchaeological populations.

}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.51270/47.1.23}, author = {Nicole Hughes and Amy B. Scott} } @Book Reviews/Comptes-rendus {11938, title = {Process and Meaning in Spatial Archaeology: Investigations into Pre-Columbian Iroquoian Space and Place}, volume = {42}, year = {2018}, pages = {270-273}, editor = {Beatrice A. Fletcher} } @article {11246, title = {Pour une typologie stylistique chrono-th{\'e}matique des fa{\"\i}ences fran{\c c}aises retrouv{\'e}es dans les anciennes colonies d{\textquoteright}Am{\'e}rique (XVIIe{\textendash}XVIIIe s.)}, journal = {Canadian Journal of Archaeology/Journal canadien d{\textquoteright}arch{\'e}ologie}, volume = {40}, year = {2016}, pages = {268{\textendash}296}, abstract = {

North-American typologies for identifying and dating French faience, i.e., French tin-glazed earthenware (seventeenth\– eighteenth centuries) from colonial contexts are based on restrictive and often misleading regional categories that can lead to erroneous interpretations. Since the 1980s, the archaeology of French production sites aided by archaeometric studies revealed that: first, the faience production landscape was more complex than it seemed but also that the shape/decoration-production centre correlation was not appropriate to identify the productions. As a result of our research on the reference collection of Place-Royale in Quebec City, we suggest the use of 19 alternative chrono-thematic types. Furthermore, we should take into consideration three times more probable areas of production and harmonize the vocabulary used on both sides of the Atlantic, basing it on visual stylistic and descriptive comparisons rather than on geographical criteria.

}, author = {Laetitia M{\'e}treau and Jean Rosen and Caroline Girard and R{\'e}ginald Auger} } @Book Reviews/Comptes-rendus {12785, title = {People and Culture in Ice Age Americas: New Dimensions in Paleoamerican Archeology}, volume = {44}, year = {2020}, pages = {268{\textendash}270}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.51270/44.2.268}, editor = {Jolyane Saule} } @article {11536, title = {Practice Molds Place: Communities of Pottery Production and Situated Identities at Location 3 (AgHk-54)}, journal = {Canadian Journal of Archaeology/Journal canadien d{\textquoteright}arch{\'e}ologie}, volume = {41}, year = {2017}, pages = {238-268}, abstract = {The archaeological study of Late Woodland communities in southern Ontario has identified two spatially and culturally distinct manifestations known as the Western Basin and Ontario Iroquoian Traditions. Recently, the emergence of sites along an interstice between these two manifestations has invited study of the potential for socio-material syncretization within such a {\textquotedblleft}borderland{\textquotedblright} context. Using materiality theory and the communities of practice approach, along with an attribute-based analysis of pottery vessel designs, this paper discusses notions of identity formation and place at Location~3, a thirteenth-century {\textquotedblleft}borderland{\textquotedblright} site near Arkona, Ontario. It is suggested this site was inhabited by newly configured, residentially mobile communities who perceived ceramic vessel production as a field of co-participation and learning. This, in turn, resulted in the emergence of situated social identities and notions of place, along with the materialization of a short-lived, localized design repertoire composed of combined elements from neighbouring potters.}, author = {Amanda Suko} } @Book Reviews/Comptes-rendus {11042, title = {Public Participation in Archaeology}, volume = {39}, year = {2015}, pages = {346-348}, editor = {Kiara Beaulieu} }