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View article: Bringing past into present: Transitions, truth and reckoning with unmarked residential school graves
Bringing past into present: Transitions, truth and reckoning with unmarked residential school graves Open
This conversation began as a roundtable at the 2023 joint meeting of the American Anthropological Association and the Canadian Anthropology Society in Toronto. The roundtable was part of the Executive Program and was intended as a follow-u…
View article: The Archaeological Prospection of Plankhouse Villages on the Northwest Coast of North America
The Archaeological Prospection of Plankhouse Villages on the Northwest Coast of North America Open
Pacific Northwest Coast sites are challenging for archaeological prospection, shell-rich soil matrices and perishable material culture complicate interpretations, Archaeo-geophysics can resolve subsurface plankhouse features, drone-based L…
View article: The challenges of signal interpretation of burials in ground‐penetrating radar
The challenges of signal interpretation of burials in ground‐penetrating radar Open
The identification of unmarked graves and burials is one of most common applications of ground‐penetrating radar (GPR) in archaeology. Despite a high frequency of use and a long history of experimentation, there appears to be considerable …
View article: Rethinking Cultural Heritage in the International Finance Corporation Performance Standards
Rethinking Cultural Heritage in the International Finance Corporation Performance Standards Open
In 2006, the World Bank's private sector lending arm, the International Finance Corporation (IFC), introduced eight Environmental and Social Performance Standards (PSs) to define IFC clients’ responsibilities for managing their environment…
View article: The CARE Principles and the Reuse, Sharing, and Curation of Indigenous Data in Canadian Archaeology
The CARE Principles and the Reuse, Sharing, and Curation of Indigenous Data in Canadian Archaeology Open
Reuse and sharing of archaeological data are tied to ethics in data practice, research design, and the rights of Indigenous peoples in decision-making about their heritage. In this article, the authors discuss how the CARE (Collective bene…
View article: Dating Marine Shell: A Guide for the Wary North American Archaeologist
Dating Marine Shell: A Guide for the Wary North American Archaeologist Open
Radiocarbon dates on marine shell and other materials of marine origin appear significantly older than contemporaneous samples of terrestrial/atmospheric origin. Misunderstandings regarding the mechanisms that give rise to this “marine res…
View article: A New Radiocarbon Database for the Lower 48 States
A New Radiocarbon Database for the Lower 48 States Open
From 2014 to 2020, we compiled radiocarbon ages from the lower 48 states, creating a database of more than 100,000 archaeological, geological, and paleontological ages that will be freely available to researchers through the Canadian Archa…
View article: TIME, ORAL TRADITION, AND TECHNOLOGY
TIME, ORAL TRADITION, AND TECHNOLOGY Open
Time, oral tradition and technology https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvbtzpfm
View article: Radiocarbon test for demographic events in written and oral history
Radiocarbon test for demographic events in written and oral history Open
Significance Indigenous oral traditions remain a very controversial source of historical knowledge in Western scientific, humanistic, and legal traditions. Likewise, demographic models using radiocarbon-based simulation methods are controv…
View article: A Marine Reservoir Effect ∆R Value for Kitandach, in Prince Rupert Harbour, British Columbia, Canada
A Marine Reservoir Effect ∆R Value for Kitandach, in Prince Rupert Harbour, British Columbia, Canada Open
Prince Rupert Harbour (PRH), on the north Pacific Coast of British Columbia, contains at least 157 shell middens, of which 66 are known villages, in an area of approximately 180 km 2 . These sites span the last 9500 yr and in some cases ar…
View article: Spatiotemporal distribution of Holocene populations in North America
Spatiotemporal distribution of Holocene populations in North America Open
Significance We provide the first maps to our knowledge of spatiotemporal paleodemographic growth following human migration into the Americas for the past 13,000 y, using a statistical approach that simultaneously addresses sampling and ta…