Just Ask! Creating Public Engagement Opportunities for Students - A conversation with Dr. Lisa Rankin

Dr. Lisa Rankin places great emphasis on public engagement and has received many awards and grants for engaged research, including SSHRC's Partnership Grant and Memorial's President's Award for Public Engagement Partnerships.

Watch Just Ask! Creating Public Engagement Opportunities for Students - A conversation with Dr. Lisa Rankin (Youtube video) to find out more.

A good investment

Those that think an arts degree isn't a good investment might want to chat with archaeology student Molly Ingenmey, a recipient of the 2018 Heaslip Award, Memorial's largest scholarship for undergraduate students.

Read more about Molly and her accomplishment in the Gazette.

Pregnant in the field

As a male-dominated field, archaeology holds unique challenges to female researchers. Mun Archaeology's Catherine Losier is the first faculty member in the history of Memorial's archaeology department to be #pregnantinthefield - read more about her and other archaeologists who are ushering in a new era in the Gazette.

Landscape listener

What does rotting cod and soil enrichment do to landscapes? Quite a bit as it turns out, according to our adjunct faculty member Amanda Crompton. Read more in the Gazette.

Summer of seals

Bet you didn't know that seal teeth have rings like the trunks of trees which can be counted to see how old they are!

Congratulations to third year student Jenn Wilkins who has received a coveted NSERC / CRSNG undergraduate student research award to study seal teeth. 

Read more about Jenn's cool research project in the Gazette.

Ethical and inclusive research required to decolonize the Academy - Op ed by Lisa Rankin

An important op ed from Dr. Lisa Rankin on how ethical and inclusive archaeology can help decolonize the university. Read it in the Gazette.

PhD Defences

The following candidates will be taking their Final Oral Examination for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Archaeology.
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Arthur Clausnitzer
Friday, Sept. 15, 2017, 1pm
IIC 2014, Bruneau Centre for Research & Innovation
Title: The Seventeenth-Century English Cod Fisheries of Newfoundland and New England, circa 1600-1713: An Archaeological and Historical Comparison.

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Megan Bower
Monday, Sept. 18, 2017, 1pm
IIC 2014, Bruneau Centre for Research Rsearch & Innovation
Title: Exploring the Potential of Strontium Isotope Analysis to Detect Archaeological Migration Events in Southern Ontario, Canada.

Visiting Speaker Series

Dr. Ran Barkai, Chair, Department of Archaeology, Tel-Aviv University.

Title of presentation: Cultural and biological transformations in the Middle Pleistocene Levant: A view from Qesem Cave, Israel.

Friday, September 8th at 3pm in QC-2013.

Course Offerings - Fall 2017

The Department is offering a number of exciting undergraduate and graduate level courses this Fall. Register soon to ensure your placement.

The Ken Reynolds Scholarship in Beothuk Archaeology

Ken Reynolds' research helped define what we now know of the Beothuk’s essential role in the province’s cultural history. A scholarship honouring Ken's memory will support future research.

'Marine Ventures: Archaeological Perspectives on Human-Sea Relations'

This book examines how the marine environment has influenced human adaptations and social complexity in the past. Two papers co-authored by Lisa Rankin focus on the seascapes of historic Inuit-French cultural contact in southern Labrador.

Course Offering - Winter 2017

ARCH 3592: Norse Archaeology

This course explores Late Iron Age/Viking Age/Medieval responses to the "new": new technologies, new cultures, new ways of doing, new lands and new religions.  Students will work with raw materials of the period to better understand material culture, and the Norse in Newfoundland and Labrador will be considered within a global context.

'Contact in the 16th Century: Networks among Fishers, Foragers and Farmers'

A new book, Contact in the 16th Century: Networks among Fishers, Foragers and Farmers, presents new research on the archaeology and history of early contacts between Europeans and First Nations peoples throughout Eastern and Atlantic Canada.

Winter 2016 Course Offering - ARCH 2493: Archaeology on Film

The Dept. of Archaeology will be offering ARCH 2493: Archaeology on Film during the winter semester. 

This course explores the use of archaeology as a popular backdrop to many films and documentaries. Yet, the manner in which archaeology is represented in modern film is hardly realistic, or is it? The portrayal of archaeology in popular film will be discussed in order to determine what movies convey to the public about archaeological method and theory as well as the historical stories that archaeologists investigate.

Per Course Instructors: Winter 2016 semester

The Department of Archaeology invites applications from individuals interested in teaching undergraduate courses in the WINTER 2016 semester.

For more details see Job Postings.

Closing Date: October 27, 2015

ARCH 3594: Archaeology of Sport

This course surveys the rich global archaeological record of past sporting practices.  While sports associated with Classical Mediterranean civilizations have been well-described, archaeology hints at a much wider – indeed, cross-culturally universal - record of sports and athletic games. 

Classes will explore the full human record of sport, beginning with the emergence of a modern human body equipped for running and other forms of athleticism, and exploring the evidence – sporting equipment, competition venues, artistic depictions, skeletal traces  and more - from diverse times and places.

New Course Offerings in Archaeology - Fall 2014

ARCH 3584/HIST 3535 - Historical Anthropology investigates the ways that archaeologists and anthropologists use the documentary record.

ARCH 3688 - The Archaeology of Coastal Landscapes explores past human-environmental interaction at coastal sites.

ARCH 3536/HIS 3536 - Object Lessons: Putting Strange Things in Context explores the interpretation of unique objects, especially those which have been separated, in some way, from their historical context or archaeological assemblage.

CNEHA 2012

The CNEHA 2012 conference is fast approaching, have you registered yet? We have so many great events planned, be sure to sign up for our tours and don't miss out on the Open-Vault workshops at the Rooms! The deadline to register for the awesome Post-conference tour is September 14th!

Colony of Avalon

North Atlantic Archaeology Journal Accepting Submissions for Vol. 3

Congratulations Dr. Amanda Crompton!