Position

Assistant Professor

Contact

Email: btapper[@]mun.ca
Office: QC-2016
Phone: +1 709 864-8873

Research Interests

Algonquian rock art; historic graffiti; maritime cultural landscapes; landscape archaeology and historic landscape analysis; GIS; RTI; computational photography; Canadian Maritimes; Atlantic Canada.

Publications

• ^{Tapper, B., and R. Lewis, in press. Petroglyphs on the periphery: rock art in the Canadian Maritimes. In Rock art in Canada: stories, landscapes and practices, edited by D. Zawadzka, B. Tapper and O. Moro Abadía. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.}
• ^{Zawadzka, D., B. Tapper and O. Moro Abadía (eds), in press. Rock art in Canada: stories, landscapes and practices. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.}
• ^{Fiore, D., B.Tapper, D. Zawadzka, and A. Acevedo. 2024. "Rock art research and knowledge production in the context of globalizations: a compartive approach to the cases of Patagonia-Argentina and Eastern Canada." In Deep-time images in the Age of Globalization: Rock art in the 21st century, edited by O. Moro Abadia, M. W. Conkey and J. McDonald, pp.89-108. Cham, Switzerland: Springer.}
• ^{Deal, M., and B. Tapper. 2024. "Indigenous human images from the Maritime Peninsula: Precontact to 1850."  Northeast Anthropology 93-94:149-175.}
• ^{Farnworth, R., P. Herring, B. Tapper, and C. R. Farnworth. 2024. "Locations of Cornish cairns in relation to the Rough Tor Effect."  Time and Mind 16 (1-4):87-113.}
• ^{Farnworth, R., P. Herring, B.Tapper, and C. R. Farnworth. 2024. "Stone circles and the Pole Star on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall."  Time and Mind 16 (1-4):59-86.}
• ^{Farnworth, R., P. Herring, B. Tapper, and C. R. Farnworth. 2023. "The Rough Tor Effect: early prehistoric monuments focusing on significant tors in Cornwall."  Time and Mind 16 (1-4):7-38.}
• ^{Deal, M., J. Campbell, and B. Tapper. 2022. "Archaeology and the meanderings of the Annapolis River: a view from the Boswell site."  Canadian Journal of Archaeology 46 (1):52-99.}
• ^{Tapper, B., and O. Moro Abadia. 2021. "Interpreting scenes in the rock art of the Canadian Maritimes." In Making scenes: global perspectives on scenes in rock art, edited by I.Davidson and A. Nowell, 295-309. New York: Berghahn Books.}
• ^{Tapper, B. 2021. "Kwipek, Mi’kma’ki: pemiaq aqq pilua’sik ta’n tel amalilitu’n kuntewiktuk / Continuity and change in Mi’kmaw petroglyphs at Bedford, Nova Scotia, Canada." In Ontologies of rock art: images, relational approaches, and Indigenous knowledges, edited by O. Moro Abadía and M. Porr, pp.374-394. London: Routledge.}
• ^{Gaulton, B., B.Tapper, D. Williams, and D. Teasdale. 2021. "The Avalon Historic Petroglyphs Project: Investigating Historic Graffiti and Petroglyphs on Newfoundland’s Eastern Avalon Peninsula."  Northeast Historical Archaeology 50:20-40.}
• ^{Tapper, B., O. Moro Abadía, and D. Zawadzka. 2020. "Representation and meaning in rock art: the case of Algonquian rock images."  World Archaeology 52 (3):449-462.}
• ^{Tapper, B. 2020. "Exploring Relationality: Perspectives on the Research Narratives of the Rock Art of the Algonquian-Speaking Peoples of Central and Eastern Canada."  Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 27:723-744.}
• ^{Moro Abadía, O., and B. Tapper. 2020. "Pleistocene art at the beginnings of the twenty-first century: rethinking the place of Europe in a globalised context." In Indigenous heritage and rock art: Worldwide research in memory of Daniel Arsenault, edited by Carole Charette, Aron D. Mazel and George Nash, 61-72. Oxford: Archaeopress.}
• ^{Gaulton, B., B. Tapper, D. Williams, and D. Teasdale. 2019. "The Upper Island Cove petroglyphs: an Algonquian enigma."  Canadian Journal of Archaeology 43 (2):123–161.}