Jonathan Sheppard

Research Interests:

The Interior Plateau culture area, settlement patterns, prehistoric land use, spatial analysis, household archaeology, GIS, cultural resource management, B.C. Prehistory, housepits.

Master's Research:

My research focuses on village settlement patterns in the Mid-Fraser region of B.C.; looking at comparisons of large villages on the eastern bank of the Fraser, such as Keatley Creek and Bell, with less researched villages on the western bank, such as McKay Creek and Chicken Gully. I hope to show what the common environmental and geographical characteristics are of the large village sites in the region.

Honours Thesis:

An Analysis of the Final Occupation of Housepit 109 at the Keatley Creek Site (EeRl-7) on the Canadian Plateau

Publications & Conference Presentations

2008 Recent Excavations of HP109: A Potential Ritual Structure on the Periphery of The Keatley Creek Site. Presented at the 2008 Northwest Anthropological Conference. Victoria, BC, April 23-26th, 2008.

2008 (Morin, J. and J. Sheppard) Potential Ritual Structures at Keatley Creek on the Canadian Plateau. Poster presented at the Society for American Archaeology’s 73rd Annual Meeting. Vancouver, BC. March 26th-30th, 2008.

2007 (Morin, J., J. Sheppard, R. Sagarbarria, and J. Hoskins) Crazy Dog Dancers & Chalcedony Core Knappers: The SFU 2006 Keatley Creek Investigations. The Midden 39(3)