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Thursday May 25th
Session 1 – Nurturing Archaeology in the Maritimes: Papers in Honour of Dr. Christopher Turnbull
Time Name Title
9:00
Susan E. Blair & David W. Black
Introduction to "Nurturing Archaeology in the Maritimes" and the Career of Chris Turnbull
9:20
 Michael Nicholas Video Accolades
9:40
 David Keenlyside Changing Perspectives on Early Population Movements in Atlantic Canada
10:00
 Pamela Ward The Metepenagiag Heritage Park Project, Part I
10:20
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10:40
 Madeline Augustine The Metepenagiag Heritage Park Project, Part II
11:00
 Karen Perley Archaeology and Maliseet / Wolastoqiyik in New Brunswick: Partnership and
Co-Management Through the Efforts of Chris Turnbull
11:20
 Susan E. Blair & Christopher R. Blair Inside the Jemseg Crossing Project
11:40
 Senator Sandra Lovelace Closing Comments
12:00
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1:20
 David J. Christianson, Tim Bernard,
Bob Ogilvie & Leah Rosenmeier		 Towards a Management Plan for the Debert and Belmont Archaeological Sites
1:40
 Leah M. Rosenmeier, Ralph R. Stea,
Gerald R. Gloade & Gordon R. Brewster		 New Research at the Debert and Belmont Archaeological Sites
2:00
 Brent D. Suttie Recent Research Into the Archaic Period in Southwestern New Brunswick
2:20
 C. Drew Gilbert & David W. Black The Archaeological Exploration of Deer Island, N.B.: History and Recent Research
2:40
 David W. Black, Elissa L. Atkinson & Elizabeth N. Gorman Maritime Peninsula Lithic Material Acquisition and Exchange: Looking Through the Bliss Island Lens
3:00
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3:20
 Vincent G. J. Bourgeois A Dugout Canoe from Northeastern New Brunswick
3:40
 Sara Halwas Current Palaeoethnobotanical Research in the Maritimes: New Information from the Clam Cove Site, Nova Scotia
4:00
 Barbara Leskovec Tavern Society in 18th-Century Ferryland, Newfoundland
4:20
 Patricia M. Allen, Alice R. Kelley,
Frances L. Stewart & Dominique Bérube		 In Search of Commodore Walker
Thursday May 25th
Session 2 – Regional Perspectives and Methodologies in Northwest Coast Archaeology
9:00 Susan Marsden Tsimshian Oral Traditions and Archaeology
9:20 David Archer Correlations Between Oral Traditions and Archaeology During the Middle Period on the Northern Mainland Coast of British Columbia
9:40 Duncan McLaren Sea-Level Changes and Archaeological Site Locations in the Dundas Islands
10:00 Kathryn Bernick Identifying Anthropogenic Deposits in Alluvial Settings
10:20
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10:40 Gary Coupland Hierarchy and Communalism: Tensions of Domestic Space in Northwest Coast Household Archaeology
11:00 R. G. Matson The Coming of the Stored Salmon Economy to Crescent Beach, B.C.
11:20 Natalie Brewster Multi-Site Faunal Analysis at the Dundas Island Group
11:40 Meghan Burchell, Aubrey Cannon &
Darren Grocke		 Shellfish Analysis from the Dundas Island Group
12:00
** LUNCH **
1:20 Brian E. Pritchard Lithic Identities: The Case of Tsimshian-Tlingit Interaction
1:40 Kisha Supernant Defensibility, Identity and Landscape: Evaluating Functional and Symbolic Defensibility in the Lower Fraser Canyon
2:00 Andrew Martindale Quantifying Defensiveness at Defended Sites on the North Coast
2:20 Aubrey Cannon Discussant
Thursday May 25th
Session 3 – Lithic Studies
9:00 Andrew T. R. Riddle The Effects of Oblique Force Loading on Flake Mass - An Experiment
9:20 Jeroen W. Thompson & W. Jack Rink The Dating of Unburned Stone Tools
9:40 Dyan H. Laskin Grossman Starch Grain Residue Analysis
10:00 Jeff Bursey Insights from End Scrapers: A Case Study from the Anderson Site on the Lower Grand River of Southern Ontario
10:20
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10:40 Martin P. R. Magne, Tina Christensen,
Andrew Mason & John Maxwell		 Metric Comparisons of Microblade Cores from the Canadian West Coast
11:00 Dustin Keeler Spatial Analysis of Magdelenian Sites in the Paris Basin
11:20 Alexandra Sumner Rethinking Middle Stone Age Technological Ability: Cognitive Issues in Lithic Core Reduction
11:40 Michael Chazan A Chain is not a Sequence: The Temporality of the Chaîne Opératoire
Thursday May 25th
Session 4 – Altered States: Canadian Contributions to an Archaeological Understanding of Complex Societies
1:20 Heather M.-L. Miller Trade and Travel in a Globalizing Economy: South Asian Caravanserai Networks of the Medieval & Late Historic Period (ca. AD 1000-1900)
1:40 Jennifer L. Campbell A Patch Work Quilt: Studying the Architectural Fabric of Medieval Period Caravanserais in Northwestern Pakistan
2:00 A. Sean Goldsmith Flat but not Empty: Houselot Data Collection in the Maya Region
2:20 Paul F. Healy, Jaime J. Awe &
Christophe Helmke		 Ancient Maya Settlement and Population History at Pacbitun, Belize
2:40 David N. Rewniak & Paul F. Healy The Zooarchaeology of San Cristobal, Nicaragua: The Abundance of Mohammed's Paradise
3:00
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3:20 Emily M. Court & Dana Campbell From the Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age: The Ceramic Sequence of Tell Rakan, Jordan
3:40 Daniella Jofre Changes and Continuities in Andean Rituality: The Cult of Catequil
4:00 Leigh A. Symonds Thinking Through the Early Medieval Landscape, Isle of Man: Issues of Gender and Conversion, Politics and Transformation
4:20 Derek Newman-Stille Acculturation in the Aegean Bronze Age: The Adoption and Adaptation of Minoan Religious Symbols by Helladic People
4:40 Jordan T. Downey The Picts: Issues in Identifying an Historical Ethnicity
5:00 Matthew Mosher Leadership in Early States: Variation and Implications
5:20 Jeffery Seibert Administration and Bureaucracy in Ancient Mesoamerica
Thursday May 25th
Session 5 – Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory
3:20 Elena Ponomarenko Recognizing Hearth Features
3:40 Sonia Zarrillo Starch Grains in Carbonized Pottery Residues: A New Analytical Technique with Examples from the Canadian Plains
4:00 Tatiana Istomina Zoomorphic Imagery in the Ancient Art of the European Northeast
4:20 Jordan J. Ardanaz Agents as Cultural Motivators
4:40 Matt Glaude Traditional Cultural Places and Aboriginal Landscapes: Protective Measures at the Federal Level in Canada
5:00 John Creese From Pattern to Performance: The Social Logic of Prehistoric Iroquoian Domestic Space
Thursday May 25th
Session 6 – Global Approaches to Hunter-Gatherer Studies
4:40 Carolyn Szmidt Methodological Considerations in Multi-Site, Regional-Scale Research: The Case of the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic Transition in Mediterranean France
5:00 Mirjana Roksandic & Christina Ingraldi A New Look at Old Bones: Inferring Burial Ritual from Bones in Breccia at the Mesolithic Shell Middens of the Muge Valley
5:20 Alex Brown The Application of Palaeoenvironmental Methodologies to the Analysis of Coastal Hunter-Gatherer Lifeways: Evidence from the Severn Estuary, Southwest Britain
5:40 Liam Brady Faded, but not Lost: An Exploration of Rock-Art Patterning Using Digital Technology in the Torres Strait Islands, Northeast Queensland, Australia
Friday May 26th
Session 7 – Contributions to Great Lakes Archaeology
8:40 Ronald Williamson & Andrew Clish The Mantle Site: Urban Planning in Sixteenth Century Ontario
9:00 Eva MacDonald, Katherine Hull &
David Robertson		 Clachans in Ontario: The Maintenance of a Traditional Irish Settlement System in the New World
9:20 Martin Cooper In the Tangled Garden: Archaeology, Art History and the Group of Seven
9:40 William Fox, Patrick Julig & Dan Long Ontario Cherts Revisited
10:00 David Robertson Glimpsed Through the Smoke: A Survey of Two-Dimensional Figurative Imagery on Late Woodland Smoking Pipes from Southern Ontario
10:20
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10:40 Peter Carruthers & Ron Williamson A Land of Many Cultures: Planning for the Conservation of Archaeological Features in the City of Toronto
Friday May 26th
Session 8 – Evolving Discourses in Indigenous Archaeology in Canada
8:55 Natasha Lyons & Rudy Reimer Introductory Remarks
9:00 Robert McGhee Should "Indigenous Archaeology" be Different from "Canadian Archaeology"?
9:20 Jerimy J. Cunningham Cautionary Tales to Cultural Translations
9:40 Evelyn V. Siegfried Archaeology with an Aboriginal Twist: Shaken and Stirred
10:00 George P. Nicholas Second and Third Wave Indigenous Archaeology
10:20
** COFFEE **
10:40 Gerald Oetelaar Theory and Practice: Exploring the Advantages of an Indigenous Approach to Archaeology
11:00 Holly Martelle Working Together? First Nations and Culture Resource Management in Southern Ontario
11:20 Paul General & Gary Warrick Haudenosaunee (Six Nations) and Archaeological Perspectives on Site Preservation in Southern Ontario
11:40 Amanda King & Dana Lepofsky Local Governments and Archaeology: The Perspectives of First Nations and Municipal Councillors in the Fraser Valley, B.C.
12:00
** LUNCH **
1:20 William Allen Akikpautik in the Reconciliation of Worldviews about Archaeological Research
1:40 Kevin Brownlee Fostering Respect and Relevance in Archaeological Research
2:00 Natasha L. Lyons A Reflexive Account of the Collaborative Process: Indigenous Archaeology in the Western Arctic
2:20 Brandy E. George Native North Americans and Archaeology: Struggling for Middle Ground
2:40 Michael D. White Archaeological Paternalism and Indigenous Knowledge: The Struggle for Equality in Historicity
3:00
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3:20 Eldon Yellowhorn Discussant - Evolving Discourses
3:40 Rudy Reimer Discussant - Evolving Discourses
Friday May 26th
Session 9 – Inuit and Their Ancestors: Advances in Arctic Archaeology
8:40 S. Brooke Milne, Lisa M. Hodgetts &
Steven T. A. Timmermans		 Pre-Dorset Foragers? New Insights on Pre-Dorset Subsistence Strategies from the Interior of Southern Baffin Island
9:00 Lisa M. Hodgetts New Insight into the Pre-Dorset Occupation of Southwestern Hudson Bay
9:20 M. A. P. Renouf Human Impact on the Environment at Phillip's Garden, Port au Choix
9:40 K. Stuart Barnable Dorset Inner Bay Settlement And Subsistence as Seen Through Rattling Brook 1 (DgAt-1)
10:00 Lesley R. Howse Faunal Variability and the Function of Space in a Late Dorset House from Victoria Island, Nunavut
10:20
** COFFEE **
10:40 John A. Darwent, Genevieve LeMoine, Christyann M. Darwent & Hans Lange Across from Ellesmere: Results of Archaeological Survey in Inglefield Land, Greenland
11:00 Genevieve LeMoine, Christyann M. Darwent,
John Darwent & Hans Lange		 What's the Point? Variant Palaeoeskimo Architecture
11:20 Susan J. Crockford & S. Gay Frederick Neoglacial Sea-Ice Expansion Pushed Fur Seals South and Inuit North: Evidence from Archaeozoological Analysis of a Site in the Eastern Aleutians
11:40 Pat Sutherland Radiocarbon Dating Helluland
12:00
** LUNCH **
1:20 T. Max Friesen & Charles D. Arnold New Dates on the Nelson River Site: Implications for the Thule Migration
1:40 Hans Christian Gulløv Prehistory of Greenland
2:00 Martin Appelt & Mikkel Myrup Trade and Exchange in the Nuuk-Area, West-Greenland
2:20 Susan A. Kaplan Boulder Structures: Miscellaneous Seasonal Occupations or a Key to the Labrador Inuit Occupation of the Coast?
2:40 Lisa Rankin & Greg Mitchell Unveiling Akuniktut: Developing a Community Based Archaeological Research Program with the Labrador Inuit Métis Nation
Friday May 26th
Session 10 – Contributions to the Archaeology of Northeastern North America
11:00 Brian Deller, Chris J. Ellis &
James R. Keron		 Feature #1 at the Crowfield Palaeoindian Site, Ontario
11:20 Michelle de Gruchy The Lenape Meadow Excavations in Basking Ridge, N.J.
11:40 David G. Smith Plane Pattern Symmetry in Northeast Woodland Pottery Analysis
12:00
** LUNCH **
1:20 James R. Keron Changing Patterns in Iroquoian Chert Acquisition in Southwestern Ontario
1:40 Liam Kilmurray Oral Tradition, Archaeology and Social Memory
2:00 Charles L. Turton & John H. McAndrews Canada Goose Pellets in Crawford Lake Sediment Document Iroquoian Agriculture
2:20 Kostalena Michelaki Integrating Archaeological Science and Social Theory to Gain a New Insight into Iroquoian Ceramics
2:40 Neal Ferris Contact Archaeology in Southern Ontario... and Other Oxymorons
3:00
** COFFEE **
3:20 Caroline Walker Horizon Markers? Can Copper-Based Artifacts Help us Understand the Development of the Fur Trade?
3:40 Jill S. Taylor-Hollings & Scott Hamilton Archaeological Results of an Innovative Partnership in the Woodland Caribou Signature Site - Pikangikum First Nation Region
4:00 Janet Young & Jean-Luc Pilon Ottawa Valley Burial Patterns
4:20 Lisa P. Sonnenburg, Joseph I. Boyce &
Eduard Reinhardt		 Palaeoenvironmental Reconstruction of a Submerged Landscape: Colonel By Lake, Ontario
4:40 Jennifer Birch A Search for the Public Interest in the Cultural Resource Management Industry in Ontario
5:00 Jane Holland Responding to Change: Ontario's Archaeology Customer Service Project
Friday May 26th
Session 11 – Digital Archaeology
4:00 Brent D. Suttie Cheap and Easy Digital Reconstructions of Archaeological Features: A Case Study from New Brunswick, Canada
4:20 Hope Kron The Application of GIS for Predictive Modelling of Archaeological Sites
4:40 Marylou T. Lafleur "Spirit Camp" Studying the Future Through the Past: A Stó:lõ Perspective
Saturday May 27th
Session 12 – Contributions to Ontario Archaeology
8:40 Dana R. Poulton & Christine F. Dodd Military Life on a Victorian Frontier: The Framed Infantry Barracks in London, Ontario
9:00 Michael Henry Feast on the Dead
9:20 Peter Timmins & Andre Polsky An Archaeological Survey of the French River
9:40 David Slattery CaGw-2 A Dodge Gone Wrong: A Huron-Nipissing Village Destroyed ca. 1652
10:00 Andrew Murray Is the East Holland River Site the Lower Landing?
10:20
** COFFEE **
10:40 Peter Timmins A Buried Archaic Component in the Southeastern Lake Huron Basin
11:00 Holly Martelle Of Bifurcates and Burnt Chert: Two Early-Middle Archaic Sites in Paris, Ontario
11:20 Dena Doroszenko & Sean Fraser Sizing up the Situation: Tools for the Protection of Archaeological Resources in Ontario
11:40 Paul Racher Up from the Muck: Towards a Truly Professional Archaeology in Ontario
Saturday May 27th
Session 13 – Community Archaeology
8:40 Joanne Lea Community Archaeology in Canada
9:00 Nancy Van Sas Archaeology as a Teaching Tool
9:20 Susan D. M. Rowley Archaeologists' Involvement in and Attitudes Towards Public Archaeology
9:40 Susan M. Bazely Bringing Archaeology to the Public: A Kingston Viewpoint
10:00 Ellen Blaubergs Community Archaeology at Bonnechere Provincial Park
10:20
** COFFEE **
10:40 Meagan Brooks Public Archaeology with a Doukhobor Descendant Community
11:00 Myra L. Sitchon Capturing the Essence of Archaeology Through New Media Approaches
11:20 Shawn Graham Community Building and Archaeology: An Experience in Western Quebec
11:40 Peter E. Pope Community Archaeology and the Maritime Cultural Landscape of Newfoundland's Petit Nord
12:00 Susan D. M. Rowley, Ericka Chemko & Christa Zawadski Inuit Heritage Trust Archaeological Field Schools
Saturday May 27th
Session 14 – Alternative Approaches to Northwest Coast Archaeology
8:35 Rudy Reimer & Paul Ewonus Introductory Remarks
8:40 Joanne E. Hammond In the Land of the Fire-Cracked Rock: A Prehistoric Canoe Industry Hypothesis for Pitt Meadows, British Columbia
9:00 Duncan McLaren Of Boundlessness and Sitelessness: Nonsite Archaeological Patterning of the Stave Reservoir Inundation Zone
9:20 Jim Stafford & John Maxwell The Text is in the Trees: Incorporating Indigenous Forest Practices into the Archaeological Landscape of the Northwest Coast
9:40 Lisa Seip Understanding the Past Through a Context Based Typology - A Case Study of Nuxalk Masks from Bella Coola, B.C.
10:00 Iain McKechnie Reconciling the Complexity of Social Life and Shell Midden Deposits at a Coastal Village in Barkley Sound, British Columbia
10:20
** COFFEE **
10:40 Paul Ewonus Towards a Social Archaeology of the Southern Northwest Coast
11:00 Jeff M. Oliver Between Stories and the Landscape
11:20 Eric McLay Hwmet'utsum - A Coast Salish Cultural Landscape: An Archaeological Reconnaissance of Mt. Maxwell, Salt Spring Island, British Columbia
11:40 Rudy Reimer Squamish Nation Cognitive Landscapes
12:00 Aubrey Cannon Discussant: Alternative Approaches to Northwest Archaeology
Saturday May 27th
Session 15 – Contributions to Prairie Archaeology
1:20 David Meyer & Andrea Freeman Post-Glacial Landscape and Agate Basin Colonization of Central Saskatchewan
1:40 John W. Ives & Darryl Bereziuk Large Stemmed Points from the Peace River Country, Northwestern Alberta
2:00 Morgan J. Tamplin & Kevin Brownlee Archaeology at The Pas, Manitoba: Renewed, Revived and Reviewed
2:20 Tara Hnatiuk Faunal Report on The Pas
2:40 Steven Kaastan Archaeological Longevity of Trail Use on the Canadian Prairies: The Roche Percée to Wood End Trail in Saskatchewan
3:00
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3:20 Tomasin Playford Placing Boundaries on the Aspen Parkland: Understanding the Implications
3:40 Cara Pollio & Meagan Brooks Faunal Analysis of the Ospennia Site, FeNq-11, A Doukhobor Farming Community
Saturday May 27th
Session 16 – Advances in Northwest Coast Archaeology
1:20 Joan Banahan Shell Remains and Prehistoric Shellfishing in Prince Rupert Harbour, Northern British Columbia
1:40 Megan Caldwell Temporal and Spatial Shifts in Resource Acquisition Patterns as Seen in the Fish Remains at T'ukw'aa, Barkley Sound, B.C.
2:00 Gregory G. Monks Salmon and Rockfish Utilization at T'ukw'aa (DfSj-23A), Western Vancouver Island
2:20 Trevor J. Orchard The Coming of the Iron People and the Importance of the Sea Otter: Haida Economic Changes During the Maritime Fur Trade Period
2:40 Terence Clark, Genevieve Hill &
Kristina Bowie		 Old Songhees Reserve (DcRu-25): A Newly Discovered Northwest Coast Wetsite
3:00
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3:20 Katherine Patton Early Plank House Architecture in Prince Rupert Harbour, B.C.: Evidence from a 2000-2500 Year Old Village Site
3:40 Paul Prince Auger and Soil Probe Sampling to Define a Multi-Component Planked House Village
Poster Presentations
Name Title
C. Drew Gilbert, Michael J. Gallant &
David W. Black		 Distinguishing Carboniferous- from Mesozoic-Associated Chert Toolstones in the Canadian Maritimes
Brandi Lee MacDonald Evidence of Plant Resource Use at Rivers Inlet British Columbia
Trevor J. Orchard & Terence Clark Was Salmon Specialization a Northwest Coast Universal?: Intensification and Generalization of Prehistoric Northwest Coast Economies
Scott Hamilton & Eldon Molto Mid-Holocene Human Burial from Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug, Big Trout Lake, Northern Ontario
Morgan J. Tamplin Recording, Retrieving and Mapping Site Data from The Pas, Manitoba

Debbie Steiss, T.J. Hall, Mary West &
Joseph Federer

The Science of Managing Archaeology
The CAA 2006 Conference Committee gratefully acknowledges the Dean of Arts and Sciences, University of Toronto, for providing
the audio-visual equipment for the conference, and would like to thank the following organizations for sponsoring coffee breaks:

Archaeological Services Inc.
Association of Professional Archaeologists
Canadian Museum of Civilization
Timmins Martelle Heritage Consultants Inc.

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