Student Research Papers

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Winner of the Canadian Archaeological Association Daniel Weetaluktuk Award for the best undergraduate paper of 1999/2000.
Title: Confronting Chaos: Deciphering Activity Areas on a Multi-component Interior Plateau Site.
Author: Anouk Tryon
Subject: BC Interior Plateau, Thompson River Valley, Terrace sites, Intra-site Patterning
Date: 2000.

Title: Modern Eyes on an Ancient World: Theories and Interpretations of Upper Paleolithic Depictions of Females.
Author: Annique-Elise Goode
Subject: Upper Paleolithic, women, figurines.
Date: 2000.

Title: Problems in Dating and Interpreting Rock Art in British Columbia.
Author: Darryl Kirsch
Subject: rock art, petroglyphs, pictographs, British Columbia, Canada, Plateau, Northwest Coast.
Date: 2000.

Title: WAPATO IN KATZIE TRADITIONAL TERRITORY.
Author: Terry Spurgeon
Subject: wapato, Indian potato, botany, ethnobotany, British Columbia, Canada, Northwest Coast.
Date: 1999.

Title: Mortuary Beliefs and Practices of the Northern and Southwestern Athapaskans.
Author: Lindsay McArthur
Subject: Death, mortuary customs, ideology, environmental influence, Gwitchin, Kutchin, Navajo.
Date: 1999.

Title: Tiawanaku.
Author: Kira Kristensen
Subject:Tiawanaku, Tiahuanaco, Bolivia, Lake Titicaca, Andes, South America, Latin America, archaeology.
Date: 1999.

Title: The Effect of Usewear on the Individualization of Chop Marks on Bone.
Author: Daisy T. Wong
Subject: forensic investigation, use wear analysis, homicide, bone, chop marks
Date: 2000.

Title: Pre-Glacial archeological evidence at Grimshaw, the Peace River area, Alberta.
Author: Andrew Watson
Subject: geofacts, lithics, archaeology of Grimshaw, Peace River, Alberta.
Date: 1998.