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• Peterborough Chapter - Christmas Gathering

  • When
    December 11, 2018
  •  
    5:30 PM
  • Location
    Archaeology Centre, Trent University

  POAS Christmas Gathering

  Please bring a dish to share. Plates, cutlery etc will be provided. This meeting will include our annual election of directors and officers. In addition we will be showing one or two "home movies" about archaeological practices of the past. 

  Please RSVP to Sheryl Smith (sherylsmith222@gmail.com) with a hint about the food you will be bringing (salad, main, dessert, etc). We hope to see you there.
  

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• Grand River Chapter - The Ward Uncovered: Archaeological Investigations of one of Toronto’s First Arrival Communities

  • When
    December 11, 2018
  •  
    7:30 PM
  • Location
    PAS 1241 University of Waterloo

  Topic: The Ward Uncovered: Archaeological Investigations of one of Toronto’s First Arrival Communities

  Speaker: Dr. Holly Martelle

  This talk will provide an overview of archaeological investigations that were undertaken in 2015 in downtown Toronto on the site of a multi-ethnic 19th and 20th century neighbourhood. The excavations revealed the foundations of the British Methodist Episcopal Church, representing the third Black congregation church in the City of Toronto, as well as numerous early Black settler sites.

  Holly Martelle earned a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto based on her research on Iroquoian populations in southern Ontario. In addition to 16 years of experience in the road building and aggregate industries, Dr. Martelle has worked as a Heritage Planner at the now Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport and has taught at several universities throughout the province. Holly is a Past-President of the Ontario Archaeological Society.

  In 2003, she founded Timmins Martelle Heritage Consultants Inc. with Dr. Peter Timmins and in 2013 the firm was honored with the Ontario Archaeological Society’s award for Excellence in Cultural Resource Management.

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• Grand River Chapter - Title TBA - Shari Prowse and Jim Keron

  • When
    February 12, 2019
  •  
    7:30 PM
  • Location
    PAS 1241 University of Waterloo

  Speaker: Shari Prowse, Review Officer, Ontario Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport, and Jim Keron

  Topic: Title TBA
  

  
  

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• Grand River Chapter - Salvaging on the Coast of Erebus Bay, King William Island: An Analysis of Inuit Interaction with Material from the Franklin Expedition

  • When
    March 12, 2019
  •  
    7:30 PM
  • Location
    PAS 1241 University of Waterloo

  Speaker: Dana Thacher, PhD Student, Dept. of Anthropology, McMaster University

  Topic: Salvaging on the Coast of Erebus Bay, King William Island: An Analysis of Inuit Interaction with Material from the Franklin Expedition

  
  

  Over the course of the 19th century, many European explorers sailed in search of a Northwest Passage through the Canadian Arctic. These journeys brought them into territory occupied by Inuit, who both traded with the explorers for various goods and interacted with the material that they left behind. I examined the remains of two ship’s boats from three sites on King William Island (NgLj-2, NgLj-3, and NgLj-8) that were abandoned by members of the Franklin expedition and subsequently found and altered by an Inuit sub-group called the Netsilik. This research demonstrates that Inuit utilized these boats in a manner that reflects (1) their environment, (2) what the material afforded, (3) their past experiences with Europeans and European material, and (4) their intended uses of the material. These alterations ascribed new meaning to the material and redefines the remains of the boats in Erebus Bay as simultaneously Netsilik and European material.

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• Grand River Chapter - Using Micro Computed Tomography to explore Ceramic Rim Formation Practices on a Late Woodlands Borderland

  • When
    April 09, 2019
  •  
    7:30 PM
  • Location
    PAS 1241 University of Waterloo

  Speaker: Amy St. John, PhD Candidate, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Western Ontario

  Topic: Using Micro Computed Tomography to explore Ceramic Rim Formation Practices on a Late Woodlands Borderland

  
  

  Micro CT analysis offers a new perspective on pottery manufacture, augmenting traditional studies that focus on decorative and morphological aspects of ceramics. High resolution, three dimensional, micro CT images reveal different ways of forming vessels, identifying characteristic tendencies in motor habits and learned behaviours that are grounded in the specific contexts of learning and in the actions of ceramic manufacture. To explore this potential, I have scanned sherds from more than 60 vessels from a cluster of archaeological sites near Arkona, Ontario, with a focus on the rim portions of vessels. Mirco CT scans can help us better understand these contemporaneous and sequentially occupied sites (ca. 1100-1250 A.D.) in a borderlands area, between what have been known as the archaeological Western Basin and Ontario Iroquoian traditions.

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