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Masters Theses
| Name | Year | Degree | Title | |
| Latimer, Andrew | 2020 | MA | Encoded Knowledge in Oral Traditions: Skwxwú7mesh Transformer Sites and their Relationship with Landscape Perception and Use |
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| Matheson, Teresa | 2020 | M.A. | Investigating Site Formation Processes at EjTa-4 on Calvert Island, British Columbia: Results from a Microstratigraphic Study of Excavation Units 12 and 10/15 | |
| Payne, Neal | 2020 | M.A. | The Archaeological Foodscape of Roman Kent and Essex | |
| Rabinow, Sophie | 2020 | M.A. | Reconstructing Ceramic Age Interactions between South America and Carriacou (Lesser Antilles) with a Novel Commensal Proxy: Translocated Agouti (Dasyprocta leporina) Mitochondrial aDNA | |
| Wiederick, Brock | 2020 | M.A. | Archaeological Site Distribution and the Formation of Early Polities in Eastern Tigrai (Agame), Ethiopia | |
| Testani, Alessandria | 2020 | M.A. | Zooarchaeology and Ethnozoology at Tse’K’wa (Charlie Lake Cave), North Peace Region, British Columbia | |
| O'Neill, Derek | 2020 | M.A. HRM | Where are the children? An experimental archaeology study concerning the role of practitioner bias in the recovery of juvenile skeletal remains | |
| Meier, Christian | 2020 | M.A. HRM | Indigenous Involvement in the Heritage Resource Management Industry in Southern Ontario: Conversations with Three Nations | |
| Fontaine, Joshua | 2020 | M.A. | Changing Channels: Past, Present, and Future Land Use on the Salmon River Delta, British Columbia | |
| Taylor, Breanne | 2020 | M.A. HRM | Material Culture and the Social Dynamics of Residential Life at a Company Town: Archaeological Investigations at the Fairfax Townsite (45PI918), Pierce County, Washington, USA |
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| Wiebe, Matthea | 2020 | M.A. | Striking Light: Experimental methods for the production, characterization, and description of iron disulphide pyrodebitage | |
| McKillop, Vanessa | 2019 | M.A. HRM | Weji-sqalia’tiek, they ‘sprouted up from the earth’: Archaeology and Management of Shubenacadie River Valley Paleoshorelines, Nova Scotia |
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| MacMillan, Jodie |
2019 | M.A. HRM | An Archaeological Investigation of Subalpine and Alpine Use in the Southeast Yukon | |
| Pitul, Michael | 2019 | M.A. HRM | Underwater Cultural Heritage Law and Policy in Ontario: History and Prospects for Reform | |
| Stefanyshen, Earl |
2019 | M.A. HRM |
Microstratigraphic protocol to assess the impact of wildland fires on subsurface archaeological sites |
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| O'Neill, Casey | 2019 | M.A. HRM |
Luck of the Draw: Risk Considerations, Management Responses, and Policy Implications for Archaeological Chance Finds in British Columbia, Canada | |
| Settle, Kathleen | 2019 | M.A. HRM | Vacuum Truck Excavation as a New and Effective Technique in Urban Archaeology; an In-depth Assessment and Comparison against Traditional Methodology | |
| Johnson, Meghan | 2019 | M.A. HRM | Technological Analysis of Site 35MA375: A Biface Cache Site | |
| Allan, Alec | 2019 | M.A. | Risk and Toolkit Structure in the Pacific Northwest | |
| McCauley, Brea | 2019 | M.A. |
A multidisciplinary analysis of ancient Maya finger caches | |
| Koopowitz Candice | 2019 | M.A. | An evaluation of the infrared 630cm-1 O-H libration band in bone mineral as evidence of fire in the early archaeological record | |
| Kobes, Tyrel |
2019 | M.A. HRM |
River Through the Dry Prairie: Heritage Resource Management and the Archaeology of the Southeastern Qu’Appelle River Valley in Saskatchewan | |
| Nahal, Harman | 2019 | M.A. | Assessing the Impact of High versus Low Velocity Thoracic Trauma: A Study of Experimental Rib Fracturing using Juvenile Pigs (Sus scrofa) | |
| Tinkcom, Marina | 2019 | M.A. HRM |
The Present Status of the Curation Crisis and Deaccessioning in the United States | |
| Pollock (McLeod), Jaclyn |
2018 | M.A. | Building Representation: The Development of Barkerville Historic Town & Park’s Chinese Narrative |
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| Pollock, Cameron | 2018 | M.A. | In Pursuit of the Quarry: Exploring Lithic Exchange on the Interior Plateau of British Columbia | |
| Walder-Hoge, Zoe | 2018 | M.A. | Adapting to Environmental Change: An ethnoarchaeological approach to traditional farming knowledge in Northern Ethiopia | |
| Vanderwel, Megan | 2018 | M.A. HRM |
A Critical Evaluation of Winter Archaeological Impact Assessments for Proposed Oil and Gas Developments in Northeast British Columbia |
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| Fisk, Shera | 2018 | M.A. | The Differential Degradation of Immature and Mature Bone in Diverse Environments: A Controlled Experiment Using Pig (Sus scrofa) Skeletal Remains |
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| Gooderham, Ellie | 2018 | M.A. | Growth as an Indicator of Social and Economic Transition from the Islamic to Late Medieval Christian Period in Portugal: A Comparative Study of Linear and Appositional Growth |
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| Pendleton, Roxanne | 2017 | M.A. | Microfauna at Tse’K’wa: Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction in the Peace River Region, Northeast British Columbia |
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| Simons, Eric | 2017 | M.A. | Archaeologists and Indigenous Traditional Knowledge in British Columbia |
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| Crowell, Travis |
2017 | M.A. | Settlement and Sea-Level Histories: Refining Holocene Sea-Levels in Kanish and Waiatt Bays, Quadra Island |
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| Lison, Sarah |
2017 | M.A. | The Sacred and the Digital: Managing Heritage in an Open Access World | |
| Toniello, Ginevra |
2017 | M.A. | 11,000 Years of Human-Clam Relationships on Quadra Island, Salish Sea, British Columbia | |
| Harris, Megan | 2017 | M.A. | From English Camp to Bible Camp to Spirit Camp: Ground Stone Disk Beads in the Salish Sea | |
| Edmunds, Hannah |
2017 | M.A. | More than Food: An exploration of the social significance of faunal remains at st’ám̓es (DkRs 6) |
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| Brown, Kelly | 2016 | M.A. | Developing Minimally Impactful Protocols for DNA Analysis of Museum Collection Bone Artifacts | |
| Mathews, Bethany | 2016 | M.A. | A Spatial Analysis of Pleistocene-Holocene Transition Sites in the Southern Columbia Plateau and Northern Great Basin of North America |
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| Thibodeau, Megan | 2016 | M.A. |
Identifying 1 Mya Fire in Wonderwerk Cave with Micromorphology and Fourier - Transform Infrared Microspectroscopy | |
| Spake, Laure | 2016 | M.A. | Selecting an appropriate reference sample for juvenile age estimation methods in a forensic context | |
| Simon, Lisa | 2015 | M.A. | Testing Gerasimov's Two-Tangent Nose Projection Method in Craniofacial Approximations of Children | |
| Roth, Melissa | 2015 | M.A. | Using Ancient mtDNA to Track Temporal Genetic Changes of Pacific Herring Populations in the Central Coast of British Columbia | |
| Hardy, Evan |
2015 | M.A. | The Bioarchaeological Examination of the Skeletal Remains of Warring States Period Tuchengzi, Inner Mongolia | |
| Walker, Alexa | 2015 | M.A. | Ancient Human DNA Research in North America and Abroad: Challenges and Opportunities | |
| Halseth, Cara | 2015 | M.A. | Reconstructing Northern Fur Seal Population Diversity through Ancient and Modern DNA Data | |
| Beaulieu, Sarah | 2015 | M.A. | Remembering the Forgotten - Archaeology at the Morrissey WWI Internment Camp | |
| Dickie, Ryan | 2015 | M.A. | Identifying Microblade Function at EeRb-140 and EeRb-144, Kamloops, British Columbia | |
| Lynch, Michelle | 2015 | M.A. | Heiltsuk Adoption of Euro-American Material Culture at Old Bella Bella, British Columbia, 1833-1899 | |
| Huard, Kody | 2015 | M.A. | Expedient Shell Scrapers in the Kingdom of Tonga | |
| Darcus, Laurie | 2014 | M.A. | The Cultural Context of Grinding in Northern Ethiopia - An Ethnoarchaeological Approach | |
| Gustavsen, Jenifer | 2014 | M.A. | Developing a method for assessing the skillfulness and practice time for Upper Palaeolithic artists | |
| Aloua, Ruth | 2014 | M.A. | Reauthorizing KÇnaka '¦"iwi Heritage Discourse at Kaloko-Honokÿhau National Historical Park, Hawai'i | |
| Kendall, Heather | 2014 | M.A. | A Rocky Road: Chert Characterization at ST 109, Keatley Creek Site, British Columbia | |
| Royle, Thomas | 2014 | M.A. | There's More than One Fish in the Sea: Investigating the Composition of Middle and Late Period Fisheries at EeRb-144, British Columbia, Canada through Ancient DNA Analysis | |
| Ohman, Alexis | 2014 | M.A. | Saltfish vs. Parrotfish: The Role of Fish and Mollusks in English Colonial Foodways at Betty's Hope Plantation, Antiqua, West Indies | |
| Zimmerman, Kasia | 2014 | M.A. | Changing Ways, Constant Companions: The Ancient DNA and Local Knowledge of Tla'amin Dogs | |
| Goode, Annique | 2014 | M.A. | Featuring Wetlands: Feature Analysis of Wetland Resource Use at DhRp-52, British Columbia | |
| Hogg, Erin | 2014 | M.A. | Community Engagement in British Columbia Archaeology | |
| Schepers, Kathleen | 2013 | M.A. | Do Orangutans Really Laugh? An Investigation into the Existence of Tickle-Induced Play Vocalization among Pongo Pygmaeus at the Orangutan Care Centre and Quarantine in Kalimantan, Indonesia | |
| Velliky, Elizabeth | 2013 | M.A. | pXRF and Place Names: Painting a Narrative on Squamish Ochre Sources and Rock Art | |
| Oas, Sarah |
2013 | M.A. | Revisiting Bosumpra: Examining 10,000 years of Plant Use at the Bosumpra rockshelter, Ghana | |
| Sellers, Ian | 2013 | M.A. | A Historic Archaeology of Nuu-chah-nulth Barkley Sound: Material and Economic Change through the Nineteenth Century | |
| Freeland, Travis | 2013 | M.A. | Beyond Sourcing: Portable x-ray fluorescence (pXRF) and archaeological ceramics | |
| Williams, Louise | 2013 | M.A. | Revisiting the Locarno Beach Site (DhRt-6), Vancouver, BC | |
| Rodrigues, Antonia | 2012 | M.A. | Experimental Investigation into the Preservation and Recovery of Degraded DNA from Sediments | |
| Tarle, Lia | 2012 | M.A. | Clothing and the replacement of Neanderthals by modern humans | |
| Capper, Mairi | 2012 | M.A. | Urban Subsistence in the Bronze and Iron Ages: The Palaeoethnobotany of Tell Tayinat, Turkey | |
| Dielissen, Sandie | 2012 | M.A. | Teaching a School to Talk: Archaeology of the Queen Victoria Jubilee Home for Indian Children | |
| Balanzategui, Daniela | 2012 | M.A. | Colonial Indigenous and Mastizo Foodways: Ceramic Analysis and Ethnoarchaeology in the Highlands of Ecuador | |
| Hannis, Kristina | 2011 | M.A. | On the Edge of Change: Shifting Land Use in the Pikani Timber Limit, Porcupine Hills, Alberta | |
| Jackley, Julia | 2011 | M.A. | Weaving the Histories of Klehkwahnnohm: A Tla’amin Community in Southwest British Columbia | |
| 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 Subsistence 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 Cove Cliff 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. | Foliar 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 |
Ph.D. Dissertations
| Spake, Laure | 2020 | Ph.D. |
Using anthropometrics and dental formation stages of contemporary children to investigate the impact of biological mortality bias on interpretations of past population health |
| Marinho, Luisa | 2020 | Ph.D. |
The relationship between fracture morphology and bone biomechanics: A study of changes occurring in juvenile porcine ribs over the early postmortem interval |
| Hogg, Erin | 2019 | Ph.D. | Archaeological Data as Evidence in Aboriginal Rights and Title Litigation in Canada |
| Taddesse, Habtamu | 2019 | Ph.D. | The Pre-Aksumite to Aksumite Transition in Eastern Tigrai, Ethiopia: The View from Ona Adi |
| Beaulieu, Sarah | 2019 | Ph.D. | Archaeology of Internment at the Morrissey WWI Camp |
| Springer, Chris | 2018 | Ph.D. | Territory, Tenure, and Territoriality Among the Ancestral Coast Salish of SW British Columbia and NW Washington State |
| Freeland, Travis | 2018 | Ph.D. | Monumental Architecture and Landscape History of the Tongan Classical Chiefdom |
| Henry, Shea | 2018 | Ph.D. | Late pre-contact era Taíno subsistence economy and diet: zooarchaeological perspectives from Maima |
| Lewis-Botica, Jennifer |
2017 | Ph.D. | Revaluing “looted” archaeological materials at Fort Apache and Theodore Roosevelt School National Historic Landmark, Arizona |
| Astudillo, Fernando |
2017 | Ph.D. | Environmental Historical Archaeology of the Galápagos Islands: Paleoethnobotany of Hacienda El Progreso, 1870-1904 |
| Balanzategui, Daniela |
2017 | Ph.D. | Archaeology of Afro-Ecuadorians in La Concepción, Ancestral Territory of the Chota-Mira Valley, Carchi, Ecuador |
| Armstrong, Chelsey |
2017 | Ph.D. | Historical Ecology of Cultural Landscapes in the Pacific Northwest |
| Carleton, Chris |
2017 | Ph.D. | Archaeological and Palaeoenvironmental Time-series Analysis |
| Peterson, Elizabeth |
2017 | Ph.D. | Development of craft specialization during the Pre-Aksumite period in Eastern Tigrai, Ethiopia: A study of hide-working traditions |
| Kasstan, Steven | 2016 | Ph.D. | Caribou is Life: An Ethnoarchaeology of Ethen-eldèli Denesųłiné Respect for Caribou |
| Zhang, Hua Grace | 2016 | Ph.D. | Human Osteoarchaeological Research on Stress and Lifeways of Bronze Age populations in North China |
| Dembo, Mana | 2016 | Ph.D. | Exploring morphological phylogenetics of fossil hominins |
| McKerracher, Luseadra | 2016 | Ph.D. | The Evolutionary Ecology of Human Lactation: Correlates of Duration of Breastfeeding |
| LeBlanc, Katie | 2016 | Ph.D. | A Structural Approach to Lapita Design Analysis: Investigation of the Eastern Lapita Province |
| Jones, Jennifer | 2016 | Ph.D. | Historical Archaeology of Tourism at Port Arthur, Tasmania, 1885-1960 |
| Scott, Audrey |
2015 | Ph.D. | The Influence of Surgical Stress on Human Hair Fiber Dimensions |
| Carr-Locke, Sarah | 2015 | Ph.D. | Indigenous Heritage and Public Museums: Exploring Collaboration and Exhibition in Canada and the United States |
| Elliott, Marina | 2015 | Ph.D. | Estimating Body Mass In Biological Anthropology: An Evaluation Using Three-Dimensional Computed Tomography |
| Connaughton, Sean | 2014 | Ph.D. | Emergence and Development of Ancestral Polynesian Society of Tonga |
| Hickok, Andrew | 2013 | Ph.D. | Palaeopathological and Palaeoepidemiological Analyses of Treponemal Infection on the Northwest Coast: A Unitarian Perspective |
| Klassen, Michael | 2013 | Ph.D. | Indigenous Heritage Stewardship and the Transformation of Archaeological Practice: Two Case Studies from the Mid-Fraser Region of British Columbia |
| Cockle, Diane | 2013 | Ph.D. | Human Decomposition and the Factors that Affect It: A Retrospective Study of Death Scenes in Canada |
| Arndt, Ursula | 2011 | Ph.D. | Ancient DNA analysis of north east Pacific humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) |
| Congram, Derek | 2010 | Ph.D. | Spatial analysis and predictive modelling of clandestine graves from rearguard repression of the Spanish Civil War |
| Speller, Camilla cfspelle@sfu.ca |
2009 | Ph.D. | Investigating turkey domestication in the Southwest United States through ancient DNA analysis |
| Mundorff, Amy | 2009 | Ph.D. | Human identification following the World Trade Center Disaster: assessing management practices for highly fragmented and commingled remains |
| Michaels, Gina Claire | 2009 | Ph.D. | Poverty, chastity and obedience: monastic masculinities in Spanish Colonial Riobamba |
| Ross, Doug | 2008 | Ph.D. | "Headhunters", "Headless Men", and the material lives of Asian transmigrants |
| Badenhorst, Shaw | 2008 | Ph.D. | The zooarcheology of great house sites in the San Juan Basin of the American Southwest |
| Apaak, Clement | 2008 | Ph.D. | The socio-economic role of salt in northern Ethiopia |
| Ramsay, Jennifer | 2008 | Ph.D. | Seeds of imperialism: A core/periphery analysis in the eastern Roman empire |
| Taché, Karine | 2008 | Ph.D. | Structure and regional diversity of the Meadowood interaction sphere |
| St. Denis, Michael | 2008 | Ph.D. | El Hospital de la Real Caridad: A historical archaeology of institutional power at a late Spanish Colonial Period hospital in the Ecuadorian Andes |
| Commisso, Rob G. | 2007 | Ph.D. | Plant δ15N: A New Archaeological Tool |
| Adams, Ron L. | 2007 | Ph.D. | The megalithic tradition of West Sumba Indonesia: an ethnoarchaeological investigation of megalith construction |
| Arnold, Thomas George | 2006 | Ph.D. | The ice-free corridor: biogeographic highway or environmental cul-de-sac |
| Copp, Stanley Arthur | 2006 | Ph.D. | Similkameen Archaeology (1993–2004) |
| Delgado, James | 2006 | Ph.D. | Gold Rush Entrepôt: The Maritime Archaeology of the Rise of the Port of San Francisco |
| Rahemtulla, Farid | 2006 | Ph.D. | Design of Stone Tool Technology During the Early Period (ca. 10,000–5,000 B.P.) at Namu, Central Coast of British Columbia |
| Rawlings, Tiffany | 2006 | Ph.D. | Faunal Analysis and Meat Procurement: Reconstructing the Sexual Division of Labor at Shields Pueblo, Colorado |
| Woodward, Robyn Patricia | 2006 | Ph.D. | Medieval Legacies: The Industrial Archaeology of an Early Sixteenth Centruy Sugar Mill at Sevilla La Nueva, Jamaica |
| Kessy, Emanuel | 2005 | Ph.D. | The Relationship Between the Later Stone Age (LSA) and Iron Age (IA) Cultures of Central Tanzania |
| Sandgathe, Dennis M. | 2005 | Ph.D. | An Analysis of the Levallois Reduction Strategy Using a Design Theory |
| Tarcan, Carmen | 2005 | Ph.D. | Counting Sheep: Fuana, Contact and Colonialism at Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico, A.D. 1300–1700 |
| Sawatzky, Roland Meyer | 2004 | Ph.D. | The Control of Social Space in Mennonite Housebarns of Manitoba (1874–1940) |
| Smith, Cameron | 2004 | Ph.D. | The Social Organization of Production in Three Protohistoric Lower-Columbia River Plank Houses |
| Brand, Michael James | 2003 | Ph.D. | Transience in Dawson City, Yukon, During the Klondike Gold Rush |
| Chen, Ying-ying | 2001 | Ph.D. | In the Colonies of Tang: Historical Archaeology of Chinese Communities in the North Caribou District, British Columbia (1860–1940) |
| MacLeod, Carol Elizabeth | 2000 | Ph.D. | The Cerebellum and Its Part in the Evolution of the Hominoid Brain |
| Muir, Robert James | 1999 | Ph.D. | Zooarchaeology of Sand Canyon Pueblo, Colorado |
| Rogers, Tracy Lea | 1999 | Ph.D. | The Attribution of Ancestry for European and Indian (South Asian) Individuals Within a Forensic Context |
| Roksandic, Mirjana | 1999 | Ph.D. | Transition from Mesolithic to Neolithic in the Iron Gates Gorge: Physical Anthropology Perspective |
| Hutchings, W. Karl | 1997 | Ph.D. | The Paleoindian Fluted Point: Dart or Spear Armature? The Identification of a Paleoindian Delivery Technology Through the Analysis of Lithic Fracture Technology |
| McMillan, Allan D. | 1996 | Ph.D. | Since Kwatyat Lived on Earth: An Examination of Nuu-chah-nulth Culture History |
| Winter, Barbara J. | 1996 | Ph.D. | Out of Sight, Out of Mind: The Reposition of Archaeological Collections in Canada |
| Klimko, Olga | 1994 | Ph.D. | The Archaeology of Land Based Fur Trade Posts in Western Canada: A History and Critical Analysis |
| Milne, Laurie A. | 1994 | Ph.D. | Coping With Uncertainty: Cultural Responses to Resouce Fluctuations in the Northern Plains |
| Marshall, Yvonne May | 1993 | Ph.D. | A Political History of the Nuu-Chah-Nulth Peoples: A Case Study of the Mowachaht and Muchalaht Tribes |
| Lyons, Diane Elaine | 1992 | Ph.D. | Men's Houses: Women's Spaces: An Ethnoarchaeological Study of Gender and Household Design in Dela, North Cameroon |
| Hamilton, James Scott | 1991 | Ph.D. | Fur Trade Social Inequality and the Role of Non-Verbal Communication |
| Hanson, Diane Kay | 1991 | Ph.D. | Late Prehistoric Subsistence in the Strait of Georgia Region of the Northwest Coast |
| Knüsel, Christopher John | 1991 | Ph.D. | Biomechanics of the Hominine Cranium with Special Reference to Homo erectus and the Archaic Homo sapiens |
| Sykes, Kathleen H. | 1991 | Ph.D. | Symbolic Structure, Social Strategies, and the Built Environment of an Ancient Andean Village: A.D. 1250–1460 |
| Pyszczyk, Heinz Walter | 1988 | Ph.D. | Economic and Social Factors in the Consumption of Material Goods in the Fur Trade of Western Canada |
| Anderson, Barbara Cage | 1987 | Ph.D. | Parturition Scarring as a Consequence of Flexible Pelvic Architecture |
| Chisholm, Brian Stewart | 1987 | Ph.D. | Reconstruction of Prehistoric Diet in British Columbia Using Stable Carbon Isotopic Analysis |
| Haley, Shawn D. | 1987 | Ph.D. | The Pasika Complex Cobble Reduction Strategies on the NWC |
| Mignon, Molly Raymond | 1987 | Ph.D. | Maya Animal Protein Procurement and Utilization: An Assessment of the Ethnohistoric Evidence |
| Nicholson, Beverly Alistair | 1987 | Ph.D. | Human Ecology and Prehistory of the Forest Grassland Transition Zone of Western Manitoba |
| Conaty, Gerald Thomas | 1986 | Ph.D. | Middle and Late Archaic Hunter-Gatherer Mobility Strategies in Western Kentucky |
| Spurling, Brian Eyton | 1986 | Ph.D. | Archaeological Resource Management in Western Canada |
| Deal, Michael | 1984 | Ph.D. | Pottery Ethnoarchaeology Among the Tzeltal Maya |
| Ellis, Christopher John | 1984 | Ph.D. | Paleo-Indian Lithic Technological Structure and Organization in Lower Great Lakes Area |
| White, James M. | 1983 | Ph.D. | Late Quaternary Geochronology and the Palaeoecology of the Upper Peace River District, Canada |
| Benmouyal, Joseph | 1982 | Ph.D. | North Gaspe Prehistory |
| Fredlund, Lynn Berry | 1982 | Ph.D. | Southeastern Montana in the Late Prehistoric Period, Human Adaptation and Projectile Point Technology |
| Beattie, Owen Beverly | 1981 | Ph.D. | An Analysis of Prehistoric Human Skeletal Material from the Gulf of Georgia Region of British Columbia |
| Pomeroy, John Anthony | 1980 | Ph.D. | Bella Bella Settlement and Subsistence |
| Burley, David Vincent | 1979 | Ph.D. | Marpole, Anthropological Reconstruction of a Prehistoric NWC Cultural Type |
| Masao, Fidelis Taliwawa | 1977 | Ph.D. | The Late Stone Age and the Rock Paintings of Central Tanzania |