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Course offered 2006-1:
Topics of general interest and teaching specialty areas include archaeology and ethnohistory, chiefly societies, historical archaeology, archaeological resource management, Oceanian, and northwest North America. Recent field projects have been carried out in the Republic of Fiji, the Kingdom of Tonga, and the Yukon Territory of Canada.
Research Programs:
Research, analysis and writing projects in the past decade incorporate concerns for both historical archaeology and prehistory. In historical archaeology this includes a settlement pattern and architectural study of Métis peoples in southern Saskatchewan, the excavation and analysis of early fur trade posts on the upper Peace River of British Columbia, the documentation and excavation of the Klondike Brewery in Dawson City, Yukon and survey and excavation at Levuka, the first colonial capital of Fiji. Research in prehistoric archaeology has been centred on survey, recording and excavation of dynastic period sites and monumental architecture associated with the later Tongan chiefdom, a study of initial Lapita colonizing sites in all island groups of Tonga, and survey and excavations at the Sigatoka Sand Dunes National Park on Viti Levu, Fiji. Current research supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada is focused on first Lapita settlement of the Vava'u island group of northern Tonga and its implications for questions of Polynesian origins. Simon Fraser University Field Schools have been involved with the fur trade research project (1987), the Tongan studies (1992), the Sigatoka Sand Dunes project (1996, 1998 , 2000, 2002) and Levuka (2000) . An SFU field school is scheduled to be held in Tonga in 2004 . A full publication list for the above projects can be found in D. V. Burley, Scholarly Works .
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