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Polynesian Settlement
Dave Burley's work in the South Pacific is featured in the article 'The Great Migrations'. learn more →
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Christina Giovas and the "Imposter Pigs"
Christina Giovas expands knowledge of Barbados's colonial history with her discovery of 'imposter pigs'. learn more →
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Dana Leposky: Happy as a clam (garden)!
Dana Lepofsky takes part in a Science for the People discussion about the long history of clam garden management on the west coast. learn more →
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Húy̓at: Our Voices, Our Land
Dana Lepofsky was part of a collaboration between the Heiltsuk First Nation, SFU, UVic and Greencoast Media to create the interactive website 'Húy̓at: Our Voices, Our Land', which integrates the oral history, memory, archaeology and language of this ancient site. This site has received the 2019 CAA Social Media Award. learn more →
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Candice Koopowitz Discusses Early Fire in Wonderwerk Cave
MA student Candice Kooperwitz (seen above performing faunal buring experiments) discusses her work studying early fire in Wonderwerk Cave on BBC's CrowdScience (Wonderwerk Cave section begins ~8:55, Candice at ~11:54). learn more →
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Arch 485 SP Lithics
Students in the 2019 offering of ARCH 485, Lithic Technology, learned to flintknap with glass cores produced by Earl Stefanyshen (a Masters student in the Department of Archaeology’s HRM Program) and Lucas Clarke (Director of the glass shop in the Chemistry Department). SFU has its very own Dragon Glass makers! learn more →
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Indigenous Libraries
Listen to "Ten thousand-year old Indigenous Libraries are Society's Best Hope for Environmental Vitalityy" an interview with Archaeology doctoral student La'goot Spencer Greening. learn more →
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QS International Rankings 2019
SFU Archaeology is 27th in the world, 14th in North America and 2nd in Canada (2019 QS International Rankings). learn more →
Welcome to the Department of Archaeology
Founded in 1971, the Department of Archaeology has concentrated expertise in three areas – Archaeological and Environmental science, First Nations Heritage and Resource Management, and Biological Anthropology, including Forensic sciences. We offer undergraduate BA honours, major, minor and joint major programs, an undergraduate Certificate in Cultural Resource Management, MA and PhD degrees, as well as a Professional MA in Heritage Resource Management. Housed within the Department are the SFU Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, SFU Archaeology Press, the Human Evolutionary Studies Program, the Centre for Forensic Research (with Criminology), the joint SFU/Jilin University Centre for Bioarchaeology, and the SSHRC Major Collaborative Research Initiative on Intellectual Property Issues in Cultural Heritage (IPinCH). The Department has specialized laboratories dedicated to zooarchaeology, paleobotany, stable isotopes, geoarchaeology, geochemistry, human osteology and ancient and forensic DNA.
