Lecture – Page 4 – Archaeological Society of Alberta

Studying a Social Field in the South-Central Andes with portable X-Ray Florescence

by ASA Calgary CentreLecture January 13, 2015September 8, 2015Comments are Disabled

April 15, 2015. University of Calgary Room ES 162. 7:30pm Emily Stovel, Department of Anthropology, Ripon College, Wisconsin Southern Bolivia, northern Chile and northwestern Argentina were co-occupied in prehistory by a range of communities. In order to explore the ways ceramics were used to express and consolidate relationships across this large geographic expanse, we developed a multi-disciplinary, multi-national …

Posts and Hearths, Squiggles and Beeps: Non-Invasive Methods at the Cluny Fortified Village

by ASA Calgary CentreLecture January 13, 2015September 8, 2015Comments are Disabled

February 18, 2015. University of Calgary Room ES 162. 7:30pm Lance Evans Dug in along the edge of a terrace above the Bow River in the Siksika Nation, the Cluny Fortified Village site (EePf-1) still stands out both literally and archaeologically. With its earthworks fortifications, distinctive pottery style, and unusual features, the village appears to be unique in the …

Talva Jacobson. Photo © 2015 Kai Sunderland

Creating Resiliency through Awareness and Preparation – a Long Term Conservation Strategy for Protected Community Historic Resources in Medicine Hat, Alberta

by ASA Calgary CentreLecture January 13, 2015February 5, 2015Comments are Disabled

January 21, 2015. University of Calgary Room ES 162. 7:30pm Talva Jacobson, Medalta Potteries Resident Industrial Archaeologist, PhD Student, Michigan Technological University Flood waters penetrated both Medalta Potteries National Historic Site and The Medicine Hat Brick and Tile Co. Provincial Historic Resource, in June 2013, creating awareness that the historic and archaeological resources inside these sites are susceptible …

Geoff McCafferty. Photo © 2014 Kai Sunderland.

Archaeological resource management and the Nicaraguan trans-oceanic canal

by ASA Calgary CentreLecture January 13, 2015September 8, 2015Comments are Disabled

November 19, 2014. University of Calgary Room ES 162. 7:30pm Geoffrey McCafferty, University of Calgary Archaeological work has begun in advance of the Nicaraguan trans-oceanic canal that will span the 300 km wide Central American country from the Caribbean to the Pacific, challenging the Panama Canal for economic dominance in the hemisphere. Extensive cultural resources will …

Todd Kristensen. Photo © 2014 Kai Sunderland

Mountain Living: Frozen Artifacts and Alpine Archaeology in the Mackenzie Mountains of NWT

by ASA Calgary CentreLecture January 13, 2015September 8, 2015Comments are Disabled

September 17, 2014. University of Calgary Room ES 162. 7:30pm Todd Kristensen Recently discovered ice patch artifacts from Yukon and NWT have revealed a wealth of unique information about prehistoric hunting in high altitude areas. My PhD dissertation examines the broader context of alpine adaptations through excavations at mountain lakes and rivers in the vicinity of …

Managing Chaos at the Okotoks Erratic.

by ASA Calgary CentreLecture October 2, 2014January 13, 2015Comments are Disabled

October 15, 2014. University of Calgary Room ST 141. 7:30pm Jack Brink, Royal Alberta Museum The Okotoks Big Rock is a designated provincial historic site that is owned and operated by the Alberta government as a tourist destination. In the past several decades the town of Okotoks has exploded in population, leading to greater public presence at …

Not Quite Written in Stone: Rock Art Monitoring at Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park, Alberta

by ASA Calgary CentreLecture February 1, 2014March 20, 2014Comments are Disabled

April 16, 2014. University of Calgary Room ES 162. 7:30pm Mike Turney, Golder Associates, Calgary, Alberta. Although rock art is literally ‘written in stone’, it is unfortunately not as un-changing or stable as this expression of permanence might suggest. The rock substrate upon which rock art is created can be affected by natural deterioration, surface weathering of the rock …

Neolithic Halloween?: Plastered Human Skulls and the Origins of Agriculture in Near Eastern Neolithic Villages

by ASA Calgary CentreLecture February 1, 2014March 23, 2014Comments are Disabled

March 19, 2014. University of Calgary Room ES 162. 7:30pm Ian Kuijt, Department of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame. For many years researchers have debated the purpose and meaning of Neolithic human skull removal and plastering in the Near East. Recent fieldwork has documented the wide-spread use of these practices some 10,500 years ago, and clearly identified …

Projecting Future Change from Archaeological Data: Evidence for Climate-Related Contaminant Fluctuations in Holocene Marine Archaeofauna

by ASA Calgary CentreLecture February 1, 2014February 20, 2014Comments are Disabled

February 19, 2014. Maribeth Murray, Arctic Institute of North America. Biogeochemical analysis of total mercury (tHg) and d13C/d15N ratios in the bone collagen of archaeologically recovered marine fauna from coastal Alaska shows high tHg levels during early/mid-Holocene (ca. 52-4600 rcy BP). This is linked to glacial melting and sea-level rise at the end of the Pleistocene. Under …

Understanding geographical constraints on human land use patterns in the eastern slopes of Alberta

by ASA Calgary CentreLecture January 15, 2014February 9, 2014Comments are Disabled

January 15, 2014. Robin Woywitka and Darryl Bereziuk, Archaeological Survey of Alberta. Most cultural resource management (CRM) projects undertaken in the eastern slopes of Alberta are focused on spatially constricted developments such as road alignments, forestry cutblocks, petroleum pads and pipelines. Often the evaluation of archaeological potential for these projects is focused on geographic constraints in …