Adjunct Faculty, Department of Anthropology
B.A., M.A. (Toronto)
Research Interests: First Nation trade networks In the Great Lakes region with particular emphasis on the Middle Woodland and Historic (17th Century) periods, lithic sourcing in Ontario, symbolic artifact evidence for native religious belief systems in the Great Lakes region, the identification of ethnicity in the archaeological record
Curriculum Vitae
Current Projects
Historic Neutral Legacy Collections and Lost Site Registration; Early Ontario Iroquois Village Development (AMS dating program); Documentation of the Elliott Villages; AMS Dating of Mid-17th Century Ontario Iroquoian Sites; Gunflint Industry of the Seneca Haudenosaunee; Anishinaabe Religious Imagery on Ceramic Vessels from the Ausable Drainage; Iroquois du Nord Occupation of Ontario.
Selected Publications
2023 “It’s not personal, it’s strictly business” Historical Accounts and Archaeological Evidence Concerning an Early-Seventeenth Century Partnership. Ontario History Vol. CXV, No. 1: 99-113.
2023 Figured practices: the material heritage of ritual in the Great Lakes region. in Landscapes of Ritual Performance in Eastern North America Chapter 9. Ed. C. Claassen. Oxbow Books. (With N. Ferris)
2023 Drawing A Bead on the Iroquois du Nord Narrative in The History and Archaeology of the Iroquois du Nord. Ed. R. Williamson, R. von Bitter, P. Desrosieres. Mercury Series Archaeology Paper 176: 235-255. University of Ottawa Press. Ottawa. (With A. Hawkins, D. Harris)
2023 Terminal Neutral Iroquoian Glass Bead Assemblages: A Refinement of the “Red Shift” Metrics. Ontario Archaeology No. 101: 91-105. (With J. Conolly, A. Hawkins)
2021 The Stone Industries. In Killarney Bay The Archaeology of an Early Middle Woodland Aggregation Site in the Northern Great Lakes. Ed. D. Brose, P. Julig, J. O’Shea. Memoirs of the Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan No. 62: 135 –170. Ann Arbor. (With D. Brose, P. Julig, D. Long and K. Thor)
2021 Ash as an Agent of Transformation in Iroquoian Society. In Agent of Change: The Deposition and Manipulation of Ash in the Past: 156-170. Berghahn Books. New York City.
2020 George Gustav Heye and His Looted Lake Medad Collection: An Allegory for All That Went Before in Ontario. Ontario Archaeology No. 100: 90-101. Toronto.
2018 Antiquarians and Avocationals from Upper Canada to Ontario. Ontario History Vol. CX, No. 2: 63-75. (With C. Heidenreich and J. Hunter)
2018 Iron Oxide Geochemistry in the Great Lakes Region (North America): Implications for Ochre Provenance Studies. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Vol. 19: 476-490. (With B. MacDonald, L. Dubreuil, J. Beddard, A. Pidruczny)