Upcoming defences:
Anne Dorion
Inter-site analysis of Canis familiaris: a comparison of the Proto-Contact Ball Site and the European-Contact Le Caron site, Simcoe County, Ontario
Monday 23 January 2012, 2:00 PM EST
Location: DNA C 204 (seating is limited)
Supervisor: Eugène Morin; Committee: Susan Jamieson, Jennifer Moore; External Examiner: Dr Susan Crockford, University of Victoria
Ceren Kabukcu
Early Agriculture in Northern Syria: Botanical Remains from Jerablus Tantani
Tuesday 24 January 2012, 8:00 AM EST
Supervisor: James Conolly; Committee: Hugh Elton, Sue Colledge; External Examiner: Douglas Baird, University of Liverpool
Recent defences:
Alex Nascou
Variation in arctic wolf (Canis lupus arctos) and spotted hyaena (Crocuta crocuta)
gnawing damage on an experimental faunal assemblage
Tuesday 17 January 2012, 1:30 PM EST
Location: DNA C 204 (seating is limited)
Supervisor: Eugène Morin; Committee: James Conolly, Jocelyn Williams; External Examiner: Dr Yin Lam, University of Victoria
Don Meskis
An archaeological and geographic analysis of the nineteenth century Euro-Canadian settlement of Douro Township, Peterborough County
Thursday 6 October 2011, 1 pm, DNA C 204
Supervisor: James Conolly; Committee: Susan Jamieson, John Topic; External Examiner: Susan Neale, Peterborough Museum and Archives
Ben Mortimer
Whose pot is this? Analysis of Middle to Late Woodland ceramics from the Kitchikewana Site, Georgian Bay Islands National Park of Canada
Tuesday 2 August, 1 pm, DNA C 204
Supervisor: Susan Jamieson; Chair: Cath Oberholtzer; Committee: Marit Munson; External Examiner: Alicia Hawkins, Laurentian University
Trudy Kirschner
A synthesis of the long term cultural development of ancient Maya centers in West-Central Belize
Friday 16 December 2011, 1 pm, DNA C 204
Supervisor: Gyles Iannone; Committee: James Conolly, Paul Healy; External Examiner: Dr James Stemp, Keene State College
Current Students
Nayla Abu Izzeddin (Supervisor: Hugh Elton)
Jack Barry (Supervisor: Gyles Iannone)
Eric Beales
A critical analysis of the adoption of maize across northeastern North America (Supervisor: James Conolly)
Esther Beauregard
Explaining Middle Level Settlement Variability in the ancient Maya world (Supervisor: Gyles Iannone)
Arianne Boileau
Exploring Preclassic Maya diet: an exploitation of animal resources at Pacbitun, Belize (Supervisor: Eugène Morin)
Danielle Budhoo
An analysis of selected burial architecture of the Maya Lowlands: Elite graves at Ka'Kabish, Northern Belize
Supervisor: Paul Healy; Committee: Helen Haines, Jocelyn Williams
Kong Cheong
Identifying Maya Intermediate Elites: Archaeological Investigation of the North Group at Pacbitun, Belize (Supervisor: Paul Healy)
Kristen Csenkey (Supervisor: Eugène Morin)
Shayne Dahl
Blackfoot Dreaming as Extrasomatic Perception (Supervisor: Roger Lohmann)
Jamie Davidson
(Supervisor: James Conolly)
Michael Daw
Assessing predictive models for prehistoric site locations in Ontario (Supervisor: James Conolly)
Kathleen Elaschuk (Supervisor: James Conolly)
Christa Falconer (Supervisor: Rod Fitzsimons)
Gwilym Hayward
Emerging dialectics: the social organization of Greece in the Third Millennium BC
Supervisor: Hugh Elton; Committee: James Conolly, Rod Fitzsimons; External Examiner: Dr Carl Knappett, University of Toronto
Kendall Hills
A contextual analysis of the artifacts from the epicenter of the ancient Maya site of Minanha, Belize (Supervisor: Gyles Iannone)
Madeline Holder
Animal conceptualization in Punic, Neo-Punic and Roman North Africa:
implications for interpretations of the Cult of Ba’al Hammon and Tanit (Supervisor: Jennifer Moore)
Cassandra Jasinski
Identity and Memorial Design between 1850-1920 at St. Peter’s Roman Catholic Cemetery in Peterborough, Ontario (Supervisor: Susan Jamieson)
Alec McLellan
Survey and settlement history at the ancient Maya site of Ka'Kabish, Belize (Supervisor: Paul Healy)
Morgan Moodie
Social consolidation and control on the 'Dusty Court': the ballgame and Maya society (Supervisor: Gyles Iannone)
Simon Pond
Visual information processing and the evolution of human cognition (Supervisor: James Conolly)
Dan Savage (Supervisor: Laure Dubreuil)
Jodi Schmidt
Childhood diet and feeding practices at Apollonia: Evidence from deciduous dental pathology (Supervisor: Anne Keenleyside)
Keri Sine
A lithic analysis of the Clark's Bay archaeological site located in the Middle Trent Valley of Southeastern Ontario (Supervisor: Susan Jamieson)
Andy Snetsinger
A mortuary analysis of human remains from the ancient Maya city-state of Minanha, Belize (Supervisor: Gyles Iannone)
Shannen Stronge
Using stable carbon and nitrogen isotopes to investigate chronological trends in ancient Maya diet at Minanha, Belize (Supervisor: Jocelyn Williams)
Jessica Sutinen (Supervisor: Jocelyn Williams)
Amandah Van Merlin (Supervisor: Hugh Elton)