CAA/ACA Whistler 2013 PROGRAMME Wednesday, May 15 ...

Saturday, May 18/Samedi le 18 maiTitle/Titre: Northern Archaeological ResearchModerator/Modérateur: Todd KristensenRoom/Salle: Wedgemont A&B8:30 – 8:50 Eroding shorelines, endangered sites: GIS threat modeling in the MackenzieDelta region, NWT by Mike O’Rourke (University of Toronto)8:50 – 9:10 Characterizing a “Transitional” Palaeo-Eskimo site on northern Banks Island,N.W.T. by Lisa Hodgetts, Edward Eastaugh (University of WesternOntario) and Henry Cary (Town of Lunenburg)9:10 – 9:30 Roaring louder than the sea or weather: Relational ontology and the ancientDorset-Polar Bear connection by Matthew W. Betts (Canadian Museum ofCivilization), Mariane Hardenberg and Ian Stirling9:30 – 9:50 Toolstone availability near Frobisher Bay, NU, and its implications forPalaeo-Eskimo lithic technological organization by S. Brooke Milne(University of Manitoba), Robert W. Park (University of Waterloo),Mostafa Fayek (University of Manitoba), Douglas R. Stenton(Government of Nunavut), and David B. Landry (University of Manitoba)9:50 – 10:10 Characterizing a “Transitional” Palaeo-Eskimo site on northern BanksIsland by Lisa Hodgetts (University of Western Ontario)10:10 – 10:30 Pendant grave goods of the Newfoundland Beothuk and bird spiritmessengers to the afterlife by Todd J. Kristensen (University of Alberta)and Donald H. Holly, Jr. (Eastern Illinois University)10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break/Pause café11:00 – 11:20 Fieldwork at Snooks Cove (GaBp-7): Reassessing the Inuit presence in theNarrows region of Labrador during the late contact period by BrianPritchard (Memorial University of Newfoundland)11:20 –11:40 Trading and raiding in southern Labrador: French and Inuit entanglement inthe 18 th century by Lisa Rankin and Amanda Crompton (MemorialUniversity of Newfoundland)11:40 – 12:00 Fire and brimstone – the White River ash and late prehistoric Yukon byGregory Hare, Christian D. Thomas and Ruth M. Gotthardt (YukonGovernment)