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| Name | Year | Degree | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moore, Jason | 2011 | M.A. | Comparative Study of Ancient DNA Extraction Methods for Archaeological Plant Remains |
| Solomon, Simon | 2011 | M.A. | Shattered Glass and Broken Bones: Pikani Domestic Space 1880-1960 |
| Peters, Alana | 2011 | M.A. | The Real Wild West: The Archaeology and History of the 'Casa Grande' |
| Ruttle, April | 2011 | M.A. | Risk and Technology: Exploring the Causes of Toolkit Variation among Subsistance Farmers |
| LeBlanc, Kathleen | 2011 | M.A. | Ceramic Ethnoarchaeology in Fiji: The Role of Social Processes in Ceramic Diversity |
| Pierson, Nova | 2011 | M.A. | Bridging Troubled Waters: Zooarchaeology and Marine Conservation on Burrard Inlet, Southwest British Columbia |
| Johnson, Sarah | 2010 | M.A. | Combining Traditional Knowledge With Archaeological Investigation in Grace Harbour, Desolation Sound, B.C. |
| Ewing, Robyn | 2010 | M.A. | Finding Middle Ground: Case Studies in Negotiated Repatriation |
| Duke, Guy | 2010 | M.A. | Acequia Maria Mayancela: The San Andrés Canal System, Chimborazo, Ecuador |
| McGrath, Krista M. | 2010 | M.A. | The Effects of High Temperature on the Quantity and Quality of Mitochondrial and Nuclear DNA in Non-Human Skeletal Remains |
| Ritchie, Morgan | 2010 | M.A. | From House to Watershed: The Cultural Landscape of the Sts'ailes People |
| Springer, Chris | 2009 | M.A. | Tracking Identity in a Harrison Valley Pithouse |
| McKerracher, Luseadra | 2009 | M.A. |
An Assessment of the Impact of Population History and Risk on Human Weaning Behaviour |
| Hammond, Joanne | 2009 | M.A. | Archaeology Without Reserve: Indigenous Heritage Stewardship in British Columbia |
| Morrissey, Greg | 2009 | M.A. |
Tools and Change: The Shift from Atltatl to Bow on the British Columbia Interior Plateau |
| Hall, Jonathan B. | 2009 | M.A. | Pointing it Out: Fluted Projectile Point Distributions and Early Human Populations in Saskatchewan |
| Elliott, Marina | 2008 | M.A. | Craniometric ancestry determination and FORDISC 3.0 |
| King, Amanda | 2008 | M.A. | Archaeology and Local Governments: The Perspectives of First Nations and Municipal Councillors in the Fraser Valley, BC |
| Fothergill, Brooklynne | 2008 | M.A. | Analysis and Interpretation of the Fauna from the Bluff Great House |
| King, Shannon | 2007 | M.A. | What's the Point? A Morphological Study of Small Bone Points from Nuu-chah-nulth Territory, Vancouver Island, B.C. |
| Dunk, Chelsea L.W. | 2006 | M.A. | An Archaeobotanical Investigation of Shields Pueblo's (5MT3807) Pueblo II Period |
| Locher, Peter | 2006 | M.A. | Time of Change: Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene Landscape Transformation and Human Presence in the Pitt River Drainage System, British Columbia, Canada |
| Weiser, Andrea | 2006 | M.A. | Exploring 10,000 Years of Human History on Ebey's Prairie, Whidbey Island, Washington |
| White, Elroy/Xanius | 2006 | M.A. | Heiltsuk Stone Fish Traps: Products of My Ancestors' Labour |
| McKechnie, Iain | 2005 | M.A. | Five Thousand Years of Fishing at a Shell Midden in the Broken Group Island, Barkely Sound, B.C. |
| Ouellet, Richard | 2005 | M.A. | Tales of Empowerment: Cultural Continuity within an Evolving Identity in the Upper Athabasca Valley |
| Pasacreta, Laura | 2005 | M.A. | White Tigers and Azure Dragons: Overseas Chinese Burial Practices in the Canadian and American West (1850s - 1910s) |
| Reid, Mike | 2005 | M.A. | Plasmodium sp. Infections in Ex-Captive Bornean Orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) Housed at the Orangutan Care Centre and Quarantine, Pasir Panjang, Kalimantan Tengah, Indonesia |
| Speller, Camilla | 2005 | M.A. | One Fish, Two Fish, Old Fish, New Fish: Investigating Differential Distribution of Salmon Resources in the Pacific Northwest Through Ancient DNA Analysis |
| Trost, Teresa | 2005 | M.A. | Forgotten Waters: A Zooarchaeological Analysis of the CoveCliff Site (DhRr 18), Indian Arm, B.C. |
| Watt, Kathy | 2005 | M.A. | Decontamination Techniques in Ancient DNA Analysis |
| Weber, Nick | 2005 | M.A. | The Distribution and Use of Cattle Products in Northern Highland Ethiopia |
| Huculak, Shauna Ann Grace | 2004 | M.A. | Middle Period Hunter-Gatherers of the Thompson River Drainage, British Columbia: A Critical Review |
| Johansen, Shirley | 2004 | M.A. | Prehistoric Secret Societies: An Ethnoarchaeological Model of Origin and Identification |
| Stevenson, Marc G. | 2004 | M.A. | Looking For Gold: Historic Sites Survey of Kluane National Park, Southwest Yukon |
| Storey, Alice A. | 2004 | M.A. | SAVE ME A DRUMSTICK: Molecular Taphonomy, Differential Preservation and Ancient DNA from the Kingdom of Tonga |
| Vallieres, Claudine | 2004 | M.A. | The Paleoindian Bison Assemblage from Charlie Lake Cave |
| Castillo, Victoria Elena | 2003 | M.A. | Ceramicists at the Convención del 45 Neighbourhood: Contemporary Ecuadorian Artisans and Their Material Culture |
| Jessee, Erin Denise | 2003 | M.A. | Exhuming Conflict: Some Recommendations for the Creation of a Series of Experimental Mass Grave and Mass Grave-Related Test Sites |
| Karpiak, Monica | 2003 | M.A. | Modeling Nuu-chah-nulth Land Use: The Cultural Landscape of Clayoquot Sound |
| Lindsay, Corene Texada | 2003 | M.A. | Investigations into the Ethnographic and Prehistoric Importance of Freshwater Shellfish on the Interior Plateau of British Columbia |
| Nimmo, Eve | 2003 | M.A. | The Concepción Convent of Cuenca, Ecuador: Examining Gender, Class, and Economy in a Latin American Convent. |
| Tsukamoto, Suyoko Anne | 2003 | M.A. | The Prevalence and Timing of Enamel Hypoplasia in the Bonobo, Pan Paniscus |
| Budhwa, Rick | 2002 | M.A. | Correlations Between Catastrophic Paleoenvironmental Events and Native Oral Traditions of the Pacific Northwest |
| Commisso, Robert | 2002 | M.A. | Folair delta 15N as an Indicator of Anthropogenic Sediments |
| Marshall, Amanda L. | 2002 | M.A. | M.A Culturally Modified Trees of the Nechako Plateau: Cambium Utilization Amongst Tradional Carrier (Dakhel) Peoples |
| Adams, Ron | 2001 | M.A. | Ethnoarchaeology of Feasting in Tana Toraja, Indonesia |
| Crucefix, Lanna | 2001 | M.A. | Copper Use in the Old Copper Complex: A Comparative Analysis of Wittry VI-C Copper Axes and Three-quarter Grooved Stone Axes |
| Park, Julie | 2001 | M.A. | Food from the Heartland: The Iwawi Site and Tiwanaku Political Economy from a Faunal Perspective |
| Spurgeon, Terrence C. | 2001 | M.A. | Wapato (Sagittaria latifolia) in Katzie Traditional Territory |
| Franck, Ian | 2000 | M.A. | An Archaeological Investigation of the Galene Lakes Area in the Skagit Range of the North Cascade Mountain, Skagit Valley Park, B.C. |
| Lyons, Natasha | 2000 | M.A. | Investigating Ancient Socioeconomy in Sto:Lo Territory: A Palaeoethnobotanical Analysis of the Scowlitz Site, Southwestern, B.C. |
| Reimer, Rudolph | 2000 | M.A. | Extreme Archaeology: The Results of Investigations at High Elevation Regions in the Northwest |
| Seip, Lisa | 2000 | M.A. | Early Nuxalk Masks |
| Wollstonecroft, Michèle Mary | 2000 | M.A. | The Fruit of Their Labour: A Palaeoethnobotanical Study of Site EeRb 140, A Multi-Component Open-air Archaeological Site on the British Columbia Plateau |
| Wright, Kristine Elizabeth | 2000 | M.A. | Mortuary Patterning: A Burial Analysis from Northwest Coast Archaeological Sites |
| Yoshida, Sara Jane | 2000 | M.A. | The Replication of Depressed, Localized Skull Fractures: An Experiment Using ‘Sus domesticus' As a Model For Human Forensic Trauma |
| Hammer, Thomas John | 1999 | M.A. | On the Periphery of the Klondike Gold Rush: Canyon City, An Archaeological Perspective |
| Jackman, Nicole Denise | 1999 | M.A. | Tef and Finger Millet: Archaeobotanical Studies of Two Indigenous East African Cereals |
| Pegg, Brian | 1999 | M.A. | The Taphonomic History of the Vertebrate Faunal Assemblage from British Camp, San Juan Islands, Washington |
| Chu, Pei Pei | 1998 | M.A. | Dietary Variation Among the Prehistoric Asiatic Eskimo |
| Clarke, Michael Joseph | 1998 | M.A. | Feasting Among the Akha of Northern Thailand: An Ethnoarchaeological Case Study |
| Hall, David Rodenhurst | 1998 | M.A. | Tsini Tsini: A Technological Analysis of a Biface Production Centre in the Talchako River Valley, B.C. |
| Schaepe, David Michael | 1998 | M.A. | Recycling Archaeology: Analysis of Material from the 1973 Excavation of an Ancient House at the Mauer Site |
| King, Jerome Hardy | 1997 | M.A. | Prehistoric Diet in Central Baja California, Mexico |
| Darwent, John | 1996 | M.A. | The Prehistoric Use of Nephrite on the British Columbia Plateau |
| Hannah, John G. R. | 1996 | M.A. | Seated Human Figure Bowls: An Investigation of a Prehistoric Stone Carving Tradition from the Northwest Coast |
| Mitchell, Lesley Susan | 1996 | M.A. | The Archaeology of the Dead at BoundaryBay, British Columbia: A History and Critical Analysis |
| Crellin, David Frederick | 1995 | M.A. | Is There a Dog in the House: The Cultural Significance of Prehistoric Domesticated Dogs in the Mid Fraser River Region of British Columbia |
| Darwent, Christann M. | 1995 | M.A. | Late Dorset Faunal Remains from the Tasiarulik Site, Little Cornwallis Island, Central High Arctic, Canada |
| Marais, Anthony P. | 1995 | M.A. | Kolo Velata: An Analysis of West Polynesian Fortifications |
| Odwak, Hartley | 1995 | M.A. | A Study of Neandertal Scapular Shape with Special Reference to Kebara Mousterian Hominid 2 |
| Rahemtulla, Farid | 1995 | M.A. | An Analysis of Lithic Debitage from the Early Period at Namu |
| Sauer, Sandra Rochelle | 1995 | M.A. | The O'Keefe Ranch: An Archaeological Perspective |
| Barton, Andrew John | 1994 | M.A. | Fishing for Ivory Worms: A Review of Ethnographic and Historical Recorded Dentalium Source |
| Dahm, Inge Rosemarie | 1994 | M.A. | Cultural and Social Dimensions of the Prehistoric Gulf Islands Soapstone Industry |
| Dale, Jacqueline M. | 1994 | M.A. | Cribra Orbitalia, Nutrition and Pathogenic Stress in Prehistoric Skeletal Remains from the Pender Island Canal Sites (DeRt 1, DeRt 2), British Columbia, Canada |
| Holmberg, Daniel Arthur | 1994 | M.A. | Arrow Heads and Spear Points an Experimental Study of Projectile Points |
| Linklater, Eva Mary Mina | 1994 | M.A. | The Footprints of Wasahkacahk: The Churchill River Diversion Project and Destruction of the Nelson House Cree Historical Landscape |
| Maas, Alexandra | 1994 | M.A. | The Adoption and Use of 19th Century Ceramics at Old Bella Bella, British Columbia |
| Morrison, Donna M. | 1994 | M.A. | Validity in Lithic Debitage Analysis: An Experimental Assessment Comparing Quartzite to Obsidian |
| Munro, Natalie D. | 1994 | M.A. | An Investigation of Anasazi Turkey Production in Southwestern Colorado |
| Oakes, Nicole Rae | 1994 | M.A. | The Late Prehistoric Maohi Fare Haupape—An examination of Household Organization in Mo'orea, French Polynesia |
| Richards, Michael Phillip | 1994 | M.A. | Luminescence Dating of Quartzite From the Diring Yuriakh Site |
| Schulting, Rick J. | 1994 | M.A. | An Investigation of Mortuary Variabilityand Socioeconomic Status Differentiation on the Northwest Plateau |
| Breffitt, John Robert | 1993 | M.A. | The Skoglund's Landing Complex: A Re-examination of the Transitional Complex of Artifacts from Skoglund's Landing, Queen Charlotte's Islands, British Columbia |
| Sullivan, Gregg Matthew | 1993 | M.A. | Postdepositional Leaching of Shell in Two Northwest Coast Shell Middens |
| Yellowhorn, Eldon Carlyle | 1993 | M.A. | Since the Bad Spirit Became our Master |
| Johnstone, Dave | 1992 | M.A. | The Function(s) of a Shellmidden Site From the Southern Strait of Georgia |
| Oliver, Lindsay J. | 1992 | M.A. | The Golden Pioneer Cemetery: Health and Mortuary Practises of the Early Pioneers 1882–1894 Archaeological Site EhQf–3 |
| Prince, Paul | 1992 | M.A. | A People with History: Acculturation and Resistance in Kimsquit |
| Purss, Catharina Maria | 1992 | M.A. | Continuity or Replacement: The Origin of Modern Humans in Southeast Asia and Australia |
| Spafford, James G. | 1992 | M.A. | Artifact Distribution on Housepit Floors and Social Organization in House Pits at Keatley Creek |
| Wood, Shannon Raye | 1992 | M.A. | Tooth Wear and the Sexual Division of Labour in an Inuit Population |
| Brown, Thomas A. | 1991 | MSc. | 10Be Production Rate Variations Over the Last Twenty Thousand Years as Recorded in a Lake Sediment |
| Duffy, Jacqueline B. | 1991 | M.A. | An Appraisal of the Stability of Sex Chromatin and the H-Y Molecule in Forensic Contexts |
| Vasey, Paul L. | 1991 | M.A. | Feeding Ecology and the Rise of Primate Intelligence: With Special Reference to the Orangutan |
| Bedard, Elizabeth Louise | 1990 | M.A. | The Historic and Ethnographic Backgroud of Fort d'Epinette (HaRc 27): Considerations for the Archaeological Determination of Ethnicity |
| Beram, Luisa Jane | 1990 | M.A. | The Capital Regional District Parks: A Case Study in Archaeological Resource Management |
| Hanna, Donald Thomas | 1990 | M.A. | Architectural Variability in Palaeoeskimo Tent Rings From Jones Sound, NWT |
| Quackenbush, William George | 1990 | M.A. | Tastes of Canadians and Dogs: the History and Archaeology of McLeods Lake Post, British Columbia, GfRs-2 |
| Kujit, Ian | 1989 | M.A. | Subsistence Resource Variability and Culture Change: An Alternative Interpretation of The Middle-Late Prehistoric Cultural Transition On the Canadian Plateau |
| Maxwell, David Bruce Saxon | 1989 | M.A. | Growth Coloration: A Method for Determining the Season of Collection of Archaeological Shellfish |
| Rousseau, Michael Keith | 1989 | M.A. | Significance and Function of Key-Shaped Formed Unifaces Onthe Interior Plateau of Northwestern North America |
| Nagy, Murielle Ida | 1988 | M.A. | Caribou Exploitation at the Trail River Site (NorthernYukon). |
| Quirolo, Mary M. | 1988 | M.A. | Culture History of Canyon Del Muerto, Arizona: Basketmaker II - Peublo I |
| Burton, Sandra Gaye | 1987 | M.A. | Wooden Features on the Coast of British Columbia: An Input Management Approach |
| Casey, Joanna Louise | 1987 | M.A. | Prehistoric Exploitation of Unionacean Bivalve Molluscs in the Lower Tennessee - Cumberland - Ohio River Valleys in western Kentucky |
| Langemann, Elisabeth Gwyn | 1987 | M.A. | Zooarchaeology of the Lillooet Region, British Columbia |
| Mohs, Gordon | 1987 | M.A. | Spiritual Sites, Ethnic Significance and Native Spirituality: The Heritage and Heritage Sites of the Sto:lo Indians of British Columbia |
| Godfrey-Smith, Dorothy I. | 1986 | M.A. | X-Ray Flouresence Characterization of the Obsidian Flows From the Mount Edziza Volcanic Complex of British Columbia, Canada |
| Kusmer, Karla Dawn | 1986 | M.A. | Microvertebrate Taphonomy in Archaeological Sites: An Examination of Owl Deposition and the Taphonomy of Small Mammals from Sentinel Cove, Oregon |
| Lazenby, Richard Allan | 1986 | M.A. | Interaction of the Bone Porosity and Cross-Sectional Geometry For the Conservation of Bone Strength |
| Muckle, Robert Jones | 1986 | M.A. | Archaeological Considerations of Bivalve Shell Taphonomy. |
| Curtin, A. Joanne | 1985 | M.A. | Human Skeletal Remains from Namu (ElSx 1): A Descriptive Analysis |
| Nelles, Wayne C. | 1985 | M.A. | Archaeology, Myth, and Oral Tradition: A Problem in Specialization, Consciousness, and the Sociology of Archaeological Knowledge. |
| Carbone, Larry A. | 1984 | M.A. | Environmental Change and Cultural Transition in the Early Prehistory of South-Coastal California |
| Walsmith, Deborah Lynne | 1984 | M.A. | Middle Palaeolithic Assemblage From Nubiaand Its Cultural Relationships |
| Albright, Sylvia Louise | 1983 | M.A. | Ethnoarchaeological Study of Tahltan Substance and Settlement Patterns |
| Collier, Stephen | 1983 | M.A. | Australian Aboriginal Immature Dentition |
| Damkjar, Eric R. | 1983 | M.A. | Coulter Site and Late Iroquoian Migration to the Upper Trent Valley |
| Dodd, Christine Frances | 1983 | M.A. | Ontario Iroquois Tradition Longhouses |
| Gotthilf, Vivian | 1983 | M.A. | Maize Storage Strategies: An Ethno- Archaeological Perspective |
| Horsfall, Gayel A. | 1983 | M.A. | Design Theory Perspective On Variability in Grinding Stones |
| Warrick, Gary Arthur | 1983 | M.A. | Reconstructing Ontario Iroquoian Village Organization |
| Bobrowsky, Peter T. | 1982 | M.A. | Quantitative and Qualitative Significance of Fossil and Subfossil Gastropod Remains in Archaeology |
| Cormie, Alison Barbara | 1981 | M.A. | Chemical Correlation of Volcanic Ashes for Use as Stratigraphic Markers in Archaeology |
| Nicholson, Beverly Alistair | 1981 | M.A. | An Investigation of the Potential of Freshwater Mussels As Seasonal Indicators in Archaeological Sites. |
| Oetelaar, Gerald A. | 1981 | M.A. | Deer Remains in Archaeology With Special Reference to the Mandible of Mature Rocky Mountain Mule Deer. |
| Titus, Lawrence W. | 1981 | M.A. | Hair Identification For the Archaeologist, A Yukon Sample |
| Trace, Andrew Alexander | 1981 | M.A. | An Examination of the Locarno Beach Phase As Represented at the Crescent Beach site, DgRr 1, British Columbia |
| Ball, Bruce Frederick | 1980 | M.A. | Regional Sampling in a Forested Situation: Archaeology and the Northeast Coal Study |
| Copp, Stanley Arthur | 1980 | M.A. | Archaeological Investigations at the McCall Site, South Okanagan Valley, British Columbia |
| Prager, Gabriella | 1980 | M.A. | Behavioural Implications of Cultural Formation Processes: An Example From Fur Trade Archaeology |
| Blacklaws, Richard William | 1979 | M.A. | Excavation at Esquimalt Lagoon: A Contribution to Straits Salish Prehistory |
| Williams, Jean Helen | 1979 | M.A. | Fort d'Epinette: A Description of Faunal Remains From An Early Fur Trade Site in Northern British Columbia |
| Wilson, Ian Robert | 1979 | M.A. | Archaeological Investigations At the Atigun Site, Central Brooks Range, Alaska |
| Charlton, Arthur Sidney | 1978 | M.A. | The Archaeology of the Belcarra Site: A Contribution to the Strait of Georgia Prehistory |
| Montgomery, Pamela | 1978 | M.A. | Stone Artifacts From the Punchaw Lake Site (Area C) : A Late Prehistoric Occupation in Central British Columbia. |
| Apland, Brian Carl | 1977 | M.A. | Early Chipped Stone Industries of the Central Coast of British Columbia |
| Bussey, Barbara Jean | 1977 | M.A. | The Comparison of Lithics at Three Sites in the East Kootney Area of British Columbia |
| Boucher, Nichole Diane | 1976 | M.A. | Prehistoric Subsistence at the Helen Point Site |
| Chapman, Margaret Winifred | 1976 | M.A. | Archaeological Investigations at the O'Conner Site Port Hardy, British Columbia |
| Ham, Leonard Charles | 1976 | M.A. | Shuswap Settlement Patterns |
| von Krogh, Georg Henning | 1976 | M.A. | Archaeological Investigations At the Flood and Pipeline Sites, Near Hope, British Columbia |
| White, James Murray | 1976 | M.A. | The Cultural Sequence at Chicomucelo, Chiapas |
| Wilson, Robert Laird | 1976 | M.A. | Archaeological Investigations Near Kamloops, BritishColumbia |
| Hoover, Alan Lewis | 1975 | M.A. | Socketed Harpoon Heads From the Northwest Coast |
| Lundy, Doris Marion | 1975 | M.A. | The Rock Art of the Northwest Coast |
| Percy, Richard Charles William | 1975 | M.A. | The Prehistoric Cultural Sequence at Crescent Beach, British Columbia |
| Crowe-Sword, David Bruce | 1974 | M.A. | The Carruthers Site: A Late Prehistoric Site in the Lower Fraser Valley |
| McMurdo, John David | 1974 | M.A. | The Archaeology of Helen Point, Mayne Island |
| Baker, James W.E. | 1973 | M.A. | A Linguistic and Ethnographic Approach to Bella Coola Prehistory |
| McMurdo, Ann de Gruchy Tighe | 1973 | M.A. | A Typological Analysis of Barbed Bone and Antler Projectile Points From the Northwest Coast |
| Pyne, Garry H. | 1970 | M.A. | The Pre-Reserve Blackfoot: Cultural Persistence and Change |