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Department of Archaeology
9635 Education Building, 778.782.4727 Tel, 778.782.5666 Fax,
Chair
A.C. D’Andrea BSc (Tor), MSc (Lond), PhD (Tor)
Graduate Program Chair
R.W. Jamieson BSc (Trent), MA (William and Mary), PhD (Calg)
Faculty and Areas of Research
See “Department of Archaeology” on page 92 for a complete list of faculty.
D.V. Burley – historical archaeology, cultural resource management, theory, northwest North America, South Pacific
R.L. Carlson – archaeology and ethnology North America, particularly Northwest Coast, Southwest, material culture, and early peopling of the New World, museology, primitive art
M. Collard – biological anthropology, human evolution, primate evolution, evolutionary archaeology, phylogenetics, systematics and taxonomy
A.C. D’Andrea – paleoethnobotany, early agriculture, ethnoarchaeology, subsistence, East Asia, Africa
J.C. Driver – zooarchaeology, cultural ecology, Western Canada, American Southwest
B.M.F. Galdikas – primate behavior, orangutan research and conservation
B.D. Hayden – lithics, ethnoarchaeology, Northwest Interior, Southeast Asia, hunter/gatherers, cultural ecology, method and theory
R.W. Jamieson – historical archaeology, Spanish colonialism, domestic architecture, material culture, ethnohistory, Andean South America
D. Lepofsky – Northwest Pacific, Oceania, cultural ecology, paleoethnobotany, households, prehistoric land use
G.P. Nicholas – northeast North America and Plateau, hunter/gatherers, cultural ecology, indigenous peoples and archaeology, wetlands, Quaternary studies
R.J. Reimer**– northwest coast, landscape archaeology, oral history, indigenous and alpine archaeology, geoarchaeology, archaeometry
a.g. ross** – art history, artistic and oral traditions, First Nations craft, indigenous environmental practice, studio art practice
M.F. Skinner – physical anthropology, skeletal biology, forensic anthropology, paleoanthropology, paleopathology
J.R. Welch* – cultural heritage stewardship, Apache ethnohistory, archaeology and ethnology of the American Southwest, resource management practice and policy
D. Yang – physical anthropology, ancient DNA, DNA diagnosis of diseases from ancient remains, molecular forensic anthropology, molecular archaeology, North America, East Asia, Europe
E.C. Yellowhorn**– plains and fur trade archaeology, oral history, traditional knowledge, ethno-science, archaeoastronomy, indigenous archaeolgy
Adjunct Faculty
R.R. Adams – archaeology and ethnology of southeast Asia and northwestern North America
J. Cybulski – physical anthropology, forensic anthropology, Pacific Northwest
J.P. Delgado – historical archaeology, nautical archaeology, museology
R.A. Lazenby – biological and forensic anthropology
G.M. MacDonald – Northwest coast art and archaeology, museology
A.D. McMillan – archaeology and ethnology of Canada, particularly Northwest coast, native arts
M.C. Wilson – geoarchaeology, zooarchaeology, ethnoarchaeology, human use/construction of landscape, Western Canada, North American Plains, China, West Africa
Associate Members
For areas of research, refer to the department listed.
J.J. Clague, Department of Earth Sciences
D.J. Huntley, Department of Physics
R.W. Mathewes, Department of Biological Sciences
P. Nepomnaschy, Faculty of Health Sciences
*joint appointment with resource and environmental management
**joint appointment with First Nations studies
The department offers specialization in archaeometry, art, ceramic analysis, cultural resource management, ethnoarchaeology, forensic anthropology, geoarchaeology, historical archaeology, lithic analysis, palaeoanthropology, palaeoethnobotany, skeletal biology and zooarchaeology.
The student gains a comprehensive understanding of the discipline and strives to acquire a general knowledge of world prehistory, physical anthropology, and archaeological theory and method, in addition to gaining knowledge and expertise in particular areas of research interest. Depending on enrollments, individual or group courses can be arranged in addition to regularly scheduled courses.
A distinction is made between program enrolment and formal advancement to degree candidacy. A candidate is a student who successfully completes advancement to candidacy requirements (defined below). Normally, advancement happens once the 91ÅÝܽ residency is fulfilled, but not later than the end of the ninth term after PhD admission and not later than the end of the sixth term for MA students.
This program consists of these sequential steps: course requirements, thesis prospectus, colloquium presentation, advancement to candidacy, and thesis completion and defence. Students are expected to complete all MA program requirements in a maximum of nine terms of full-time enrolment.
Course Requirements
Students complete a minimum of three graduate courses including ARCH 871 and 876, and a thesis. They may be required to complete additional courses and must complete ARCH 872/873 each term that it is offered. ARCH 873 credit is not part of the normal MA requirement. ARCH 872 and 873 grading will be satisfactory/unsatisfactory (S/U). Course requirements, thesis prospectus and colloquium presentation should be completed by full-time students by the end of the second term.
Advancement to Candidacy
Advancement to candidacy requirements follow.
• completion of two of the minimum three graduate courses.
• preparation of thesis prospectus. The prospectus discusses the proposed research and general background relevant to the research and is submitted to the supervisory committee and approved before step 3 is undertaken.
• after approval of the thesis prospectus, and after consultation between the student and his/her supervisory committee, the student will present a colloquium, the topic of which shall be the substance of the prospectus.
The colloquium is not considered a defence of the prospectus per se, but is a means whereby the student may benefit from the department’s expertise.
Thesis
After the above, students advance to candidacy and complete and defend the thesis. The defence topic should be the thesis itself and related matters. It should be focussed on problem-oriented research, involving the conceptualization of a problem, and the collection, analysis and interpretation of data. It should not normally exceed 100 pages of text. Students are expected to complete the MA thesis in a maximum of six terms of full-time enrolment.
This program consists of these sequential steps: course requirements, comprehensive exam, thesis prospectus, colloquium presentation, advancement to candidacy, thesis completion and defence.
Course Requirements
Course requirements are determined in consultation with the supervisory committee. In addition to the comprehensive exam and thesis, normal course requirements consist of a minimum of three graduate courses including ARCH 871 and 876. Students may be required to complete additional courses and are must complete ARCH 872/873 each term that the course is offered. ARCH 873 credit does not constitute part of the normal course requirements. Grading for ARCH 872/873 courses will be restricted to satisfactory/unsatisfactory (S/U).
Comprehensive Exam
Students write a comprehensive examination prior to candidacy to test general knowledge in archaeology and in three regional or topical areas. Grading is on a pass/fail basis but the examination or parts thereof may be repeated once, at the department’s discretion.
Advancement to Candidacy
Formal advancement to candidacy shall take place when the following have been completed.
• completion of two of the minimum three graduate courses and successful performance in the comprehensive exam
• preparation of thesis prospectus. The prospectus’ purpose is to discuss the proposed research and general background relevant to the research. It is submitted to the supervisory committee and approved before step 3 is completed.
• after approval of the thesis prospectus, and after consultation between the student and his/her supervisory committee, the student will present a colloquium, the topic of which shall be the substance of the prospectus.
The colloquium is not considered a defence of the prospectus, but a means whereby students may benefit from the department’s collective expertise.
Thesis
After the above, students advance to candidacy, and complete and defend the thesis. The defence topic will be the thesis itself and related matters. The thesis should represent original, problem-oriented research which makes a significant contribution to knowledge.
Language Requirement
A knowledge of a language other than English is desirable, but there are no prescribed language requirements. However, if knowledge of a language is necessary for the field work or reading, he/she will be required to attain the necessary language proficiency.
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