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Department of Archaeology & Anthropology M.A. Theses

Sayers, Kelly TBD
Schiele, Brad TBD
Korejbo, Alan An Archaeological Survey in the Clearwater River Provincial Park, Saskatchewan: Insights into the Archaeology of the Boreal Forest of Northwestern Saskatchewan
Macintosh, Alison Non-metric Skeletal Variation in Neolithic Hunter-Gatherers of the Cis-Baikal, Siberia
Blomquist, Perry Contextualizing the Reindeer Lake Rock Art

Theoret, Lorraine Discerning Activity Areas in Domestic Space: A Model for the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age Levant
Pletz, Jody Archaeological Investigations at the Dog Child Site (FbNp-24): An Evaluation of Mummy Cave Subsistence Patterns
VanderZwan, Karmen Archaeology and Oral History at the Stanley Mission Old Village
Huynh, Tam Exploring Community Behaviour in the Saskatoon area at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Gibson, Denise A Question of Whitewares: Consumer Behaviour and Ceramics at Clark’s Crossing, Saskatchewan
Sullivan, Kristian. The French Counts of St. Hubert: An Archaeological Exploration of Social Identity
Rudolph, Lisa An Osteological and Historical Examination of the Presybterian Forest Centre Cemetery, Prince Albert, Saskatchewan
Stewart, Matthew A Particular Type of Cobble Spall Tool from the Canadian Plains: Multi-variant Analysis of Early-Middle Period Eldon Unifaces
Park, Robin A Culture of Convenience? Obsidian Source Selection in Yellowstone National Park

Frary, Heather E. The Meewasin Creek Site (FbNp-9): A Re-examination of the Terminal Middle Precontact Period.
Wutzke, Kimberely Aaron Fort Walsh Townsite (1875-1883): Early Settlement in the Cypress Hills.
Markowski, Michael A. Tracking Down South Branch House: A Critical Look at the Identification of the Hudson's Bay Company's South Branch House (FfNm-1).
Roe, Jason Making and Understanding Embarras Bipoints: The Replication and Operational Sequencing of a Newly Defined Stone Tool from the Eastern Slopes of Alberta.
Pollio, Cara J. Cut Mark Analysis of Protohistoric Bison Remains from EfPm-27 Utilizing the Scanning Electron Microscope.

Karner, Marie W. Teaching with Archaeology: Grade 6 Science and Grade 9 Social Studies.
Steuber, Karin Ingrid The Consort Pebble Chert Quarry Site (EkOr-8) and the Role of Chert Pebbles in Pre-Contact Sites on the Canadian Plains.

Chudzik, Katarzyna Multiple Interment Loculi Tombs at Tell Dothan: Burial Behaviour as Cultural Process in the Late Bronze/Early Iron I Levant.
Hanna, Margaret Jane The Hartley Site (FaNp-19) and the Use of Sandhill Environments in the Late Precontact Period.
Mokelki, Lori Vickers Focus and Mortlach: Examining Cultural Connections in the Makotchi-Ded Dontipi Locale.
Norris, David The Presence of Net-Impressed and Horizontally Corded Ware in Southern Manitoba: The Relationship between Rock Lake and Brainerd Ware.

Cyr, Talina The Dog Child Site (FbNp-24): A 5500 Year-Old Multicomponent Site on the Northern Plains.
Dunn, Carrie Levantine Late Neolithic Pottery Assemblages: The Reworking of Old 'Cultural' Typologies at Wadi ath-Thamad Site 40.
Porter, Meaghan Historical Archaeology at an Industrial Town Site: Lille Alberta.
Young, Patrick An Analysis of Late Woodland Ceramics from Peter Pond Lake, Saskatchewan.
Neal, Barb Precontact Utilization of Sandhill Environments During the Pelican Lake and Besant Phases.

Brooks, Meagan Public Archaeology with a Doukhobor Descendant Community.
Johnston, Jenna The St. Louis Site (FfNk-7) and the Below Forks Site (FfNg-25): The Faunal Analysis of Two Mummy Cave and Oxbow Complex Sites in Central Saskatchewan.
Youell, Alan Pronghorn Procurement on the Northern Plains: A Case for Small Scale Hunting.
Forner, Cheryl A Model for the Examination of Gender Within Domestic Spaces on the Northern Plains.
Harty, Jennifer An Examination of Late Plains Period Occupations as Seen from FbNp-1.

McLean, Joanne A Study of the Presence of Lithics in the Southern Levant from the Late Neolithic to the End of the Iron Age.
Whatley, Kevin The Analysis of the Sherwin Campbell Site (EgOa-5): An Old Women's Phase Site of Southwest Saskatchewan.
Rutherford, Jocelyn Sian Hillslope Sediments and Landscape Evolution in Wanuskewin Heritage Park: A Geoarchaeological Interpretation.
Farrow, Deborah Elaine Fine Screen Faunal Analysis from the Hartley Site (FaNp-19).
Cloutier, Riel Testing Contemporaneity: The Avonlea and Besant Complexes on the Northern Plains.
Hopkins, Colette J. The Forgotten Cemetery of the St. Vital Parish (1879-1885): A Documentary and Mortuary Analysis.
Kasstan, Steven Lithic Technology at the Below Forks Site, FhNg-25: Strategems of Stone Tool Manufacture.
Leyden, Jeremy Paleoecology of Southern Saskatchewan Bison: Changes in Diet and Environment as Inferred Through the Stable Isotope Analysis of Bone Collagen.
Dargin, Wade The 18th and 19th Century Cree Landscape of West Central Saskatchewan: Implications for Archaeology.
Sharanowski, Barbara Initial Studies in Forensic Entomology in Saskatchewan: Decomposition and Insect Succession on Pig Carrion in the Prairie Ecozone.

Swanston, Treena The St. Vital Cemetery (1879-1885): An Osteological and Paleopathological Assessment.
Novecosky, Aileen The Heron Collection: Antelope Creek and Miry Creek Sites, Southwestern Saskatchewan.
Belsham, Leanne A Lithic Analysis of the Jackson Site (DiMe-17) in Southwestern Manitoba.
Balls, Vincent Nodal Area Evolution in the Fur Trade: 1768-1821.
Schneider, Erinn Rock Art in Southern Saskatchewan.
Stock, Shauna Roman Theatre Buildings in the Near East: A Nonverbal Communication Approach to Function.
Weinbender, Kim Petite Ville: A Spatial Assessment of a Métis Hivernant Site.

St. Denis, Michael Camp #9: An Historical and Archaeological Investigation of a Depression Era Relief Camp in Prince Albert National Park.
Pentney, Sandra The Archaeology of Brabant Lake.
Enns-Kavanagh, Kristin Cannington Manor, An Early Settlement Community in Southeastern Saskatchewan.
Cropper, Dawn Nadine Umm Meshrat I and II: Two Late Neolithic Sites Along the Wadi Ath-Thamad, Jordan.
Bryant, Laureen A Reanalysis of the Long Creek Site: 45 Years After the Excavation.

Novecosky, Bradley James Archaeological Investigations in the Quill Lakes Region, East Central Saskatchewan.
Playford, Tomasin A Faunal Analysis of the Jackson Site (DiMe-17) in Southwestern Manitoba.
Popkin, Peter Reginald Khirbat Al-Mudayna: A Preliminary Faunal Report.
Froehlich, Laurie L. Investigation of the Old Cumberland House Trading Post (FlMn-8): An Analysis of the Artifact and Faunal Assemblages.
Britton, Loreleen Kym The Value of Anthropogenic Sediment to Archaeological Study.

Tokar, Sharon L. An Examination of Domestic Life at the Morleyville Mission, Morley Alberta (EhPq-6).
Mack, Lis The Thundercloud Site (FbNp-25): An Analysis of a Multi-Component Northern Plains Site and the Role of Geoarchaeology in Site Interpretation.
Taylor-Hollings, Jill S. The Northwestern Extend of Sandy Lake Ware: A Canadian Perspective.
Webster, Sean Michael Interpreting Northern Plains Subsistence Practices: An Analysis of the Faunal and Floral Assemblages from the Thundercloud Site (FbNp-25).
Musser, Jill E. Archaeology, Education and the First Nations: Two Case Studies from Central Saskatchewan.

Friesen, Nathan Paul Analysis of Archaeological Settlement Patterns in Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan.
Green, D'Arcy Clarke A Re-Evaluation of the Oxbow Dam Site (DhMn-1): Middle Holocene Cultural Continuity on the Northern Plains.
Kozakavich, Stacy C. A State of Change: An Historical Archaeology of Doukhobor Identity at Kirilovka Village Site (FcNs-1).

Magee, Michael John Faunal Analysis of the Sanderson Site (DhMs-12), Block Seven West.
Buhr, Larry Edward An Archaeological Survey of Brick Manufacture in Saskatchewan.
Scribe, Brian Murdock Nistam Ka-ke Askihkokechik Puskwaw-askihk: An Assessment of Besant-Sonata Pottery on the Canadian Plains.
Himour, Bradley David An Archaeological Reconnaissance of the Lake Diefenbaker Region in South Central Saskatchewan.
Clavelle, Christina Marie Ethnobotany of Two Cree Communities in the Southern Boreal Forest of Saskatchewan.
Wondrasek, Robert John Cultural Change as a Result of Trade Relations in the Parklands of Central Saskatchewan.
Brandzin-Low, Vera May The Distribution and Characteristics of Laurel Ceramics from Northern Manitoba: A Comparative Study.
Low, Bruce Bipolar Technology and Pebble Stone Artifacts: Experimentation in Stone Tool Manufacture.

Hjermstad, Benjamin Edward The Fitzgerald Site: A Besant Pound and Processing Area on the Northern Plains.
MacLean, Laura Lea Analysis of Textile Impressions from Pottery of the Selkirk Composite.
Corbeil, Marcel Ronald The Archaeology and Taphonomy of the Heron Eden Site, Southwestern Saskatchewan.
Clarke, Grant Murray The Hartley Site (FaNp-19): Interpreting a Transitional Avonlea/Old Women's Faunal Assemblage.
Balcaen, Margaret Jean The Prosody of Tiberian Hebrew.
McKeand, Peggy Lynn A Comprehensive Faunal Analysis of Bushfield West (FhNa-10), Nipawin, Saskatchewan.
Paquin, Todd Antoine Pottery Styles as Indicators of Cultural Patterns: The Kisis Complex of the Selkirk Composite.
Clarke, Grant Murray The Hartley Site (FaNp-19): Interpreting a Transitional Avonlea/Old Women's Faunal Assemblage.

Fedorak, Shirley A. Is Archaeology Relevant? An Examination of the Roles of Archaeology in Education.

Ramsay, Charles The Redtail Site: A McKean Habitation in the South Central Saskatchewan.

Vincent, Susan Margaret Crisis and Livelihood Strategy in the Central Peruvian Andes: The Peasants of Mata Chico.

Malainey, Mary Internal and External Relationships of Saskatchewan Plains Pottery Assemblages: Circa A.D. 1300 to Contact.
Ramsay, Allyson M. The Melhagen Site: A Besant Bison Kill in South Saskatchewan.
Zurburg, Suzanne The Norby Site: A Mummy Cave Complex Bison Kill on the Northern Plains.

Russell, Dale The 18th Century Cree and Their Neighbours: Identity and Territory.
Lipsett, Katherine Pictographs in Northern Saskatchewan: Vision Quest and Pawakan.

Brandon, John The Artifacts and Stratigraphy of the Letendre Complex, Batoche, Saskatchewan.
Kroszer, Kit The Late Prehistoric Period at the Turn in Kingsway Park, Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.
Hanna, Sharon Lithic Assemblage Variability at the Robinson Pueblo, a Lincoln Phase Site in Southeastern New Mexico.
Heber, Robert Welsey Chipewyan Ethno-Adaptations: Identity Expression for Chipeqna Indians of Northern Saskatchewan.

Richards, Tom Microwear Patterns on Experimental Cache Creek Basalt Tools.
Dawson, Sheila Late Prehistoric Mortuary Practices: An Analysis of the Bethune, Sisterbutte, Glen Ewen, and Moose Bay Burials in Saskatchewan.
Sullivan-Spangehl, Kathleen The Evidence of Spondylolytic Defects in Prehistoric Saskatchewan Aboriginal Population.

Kelly, David The Newo Asiniak Site: A Multicomponent Bison Procurement Site in Central Saskatchewan.
Amundson, Leslie The Amisk Site: A Multi-Component Campsite in South-Central Saskatchewan.
Smith, Brian The Lebret Site.
Johnson, Eldon A. Properties and Sources of Some Saskatchewan Lithic Materials of Archaeological Significance.

Marles, Robin James The Ethnobotany of the Chipewyan of Northern Saskatchewan.

Prentice, Jean The Tschetter Site: A Study of a Late Prehistoric Bison Kill.

Kimko, Olga The Archaeology of Fort Pelly I: 1824-1856.
Grey, Penelope The Metric and Non-metric Morphology of the Dentition of the Glen Williams Ossuary from Ontario.

Finnigan, James Tipi Rings and Plains Prehistory: A Reassessment of Their Archaeological Potential.

Walker, Ernest A Descriptive Study of Crania from a Prehistoric Iroquoian Ossuary.

Adams, Gary The Estuary Bison Pound Site in Southwestern Saskatchewan.
Wilson, James Archaeology and Soil Chemical Analysis at the East Pasture Site near Swift Current, Saskatchewan.
Steer, Donald The History and Archaeology of a North West Company Trading Post and a Hudson's Bay Company Transport Depot, Lac la Loche, Saskatchewan.

Forsman, Michael The Prehistory of Montreal Lake, Central Saskatchewan.

Minni, Sheila The Prehistoric Occupations of Black Lake, Northern Saskatchewan.

Jones, Tim The Aboriginal Rock Paintings of the Churchill River.

Department of Archaeology & Anthropology Ph.D Theses

2010

Swanston, Treena Past Human Health and Migration: The Analysis of Microbial DNA associated with Human Remains recovered from a Glacier in Canada

Webster, Sean Michael A Re-evaluation of the McKean Series on the Northern Plains.