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M.A. Theses

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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
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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
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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