Dept. of Archaeology

The Department will be holding this year's MA proposal defences on Friday 27th March between 12pm-3:40pm at Queen's College.

The first round of proposals will be given between 12pm-1pm (QC-2013) and followed by poster session in the Great Hall until  2:30pm. A second round of MA proposals will take place between 2:30pm-3:40pm (QC-2013). The thesis proposals are:

• Grégoire Boily: 'French fishing settlements in southwestern Newfoundland: historical and archaeological perspectives.'
• Leah Constantine: 'A contemporary archaeology of graffiti and place-making in St. John's, Newfoundland.'
• Alydia Downs: 'A blooming narrative: examining Norse ironworking at L'Anse aux Meadows.'
• Zophia McGuire: 'Food procurement and climate intersections on the Avalon Peninsula and Ferryland, Newfoundland: 6kya to present.'
• Abraham B. Packard: 'Beetles as microenvironmental disturbance indicators: a pitfall trap survey at L'Anse aux Meadows.'
• Jesse Reid: 'A comparative analysis of microblades from Groswater and Dorset sites in Saint Pierre and Miquelon and Newfoundland.'
• Alyson Tulk: 'Old Town of Gander, Newfoundland: A landscape archaeology of the contemporary past.'