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Archaeology and the Indigenous Peoples of the Maritimes

By (author) Michael Deal
Categories: Social Science

In recent decades, the development of Indigenous Archaeology has prompted a shift in how non-Indigenous archaeologists approach the archaeological record, moving toward the inclusion of Indigenous reconstructions ...

Beardmore

By (author) Douglas Hunter
Categories: European history
Series: Carleton Library Series

In 1936, long before the discovery of the Viking settlement at L’Anse aux Meadows, the Royal Ontario Museum made a sensational acquisition: the contents of a Viking grave that prospector Eddy Dodd said ...

We Are Coming Home

Edited by Gerald T. Conaty
Categories: Archaeology

“Deeply informative and readable… By making an important Alberta story available, AU Press has performed an essential cultural service for all Canadians. ”—Literary Review of Canada

This is the ...

Before Ontario

Before Ontario there was ice. As the last ice age came to an end, land began to emerge from the melting glaciers. With time, plants and animals moved into the new landscape and people followed. For almost ...

People of the Middle Fraser Canyon

By (author) Anna Marie Prentiss & Ian Kuijt
Categories: Anthropology

The Middle Fraser Canyon contains some of the most important archaeological sites in British Columbia, including the remains of ancient villages that supported hundreds, if not thousands, of people. How ...

Light from Ancient Campfires

By (author) Trevor R. Peck
Categories: Ethnic studies

Light from Ancient Campfires is the first book in twenty years to gather together a comprehensive prehistoric archaeological record of the Northern Plains First Nations. In this important examination ...

Subsistence and Culture in the Western Canadian Arctic

By (author) Matthew W. Betts
Categories: Social Science
Series: Mercury Series

The Siglit, or Mackenzie Inuit, the ancestors of the modern Inuvialuit, were, at the time of Euroamerican contact, the most populous and complex Inuit society in the Canadian Arctic. Through innovative ...

Imagining Head-Smashed-In

For millennia, Aboriginal hunters on the North American Plains used their knowledge of the land and of buffalo behaviour to drive their quarry over cliffs. Archaeologist Jack Brink has written a major ...

Contributions to the Study of the Dorset-Palaeo Eskimos

Since their existence became known to archaeology during the 1920s, the Dorset Palaeo-Eskimos of Arctic Canada and Greenland have been the subject of considerable research and debate. The papers in this ...

Emerging from the Mist

Our understanding of the precontact nature of the Northwest Coast has changed dramatically over the last twenty years. This book brings together the most recent research on the culture history and archaeology ...