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Alec McLellan

Alec McLellanAdjunct Faculty, Department of Anthropology

BA, MA (Trent), PhD (University College London)

amclellan@trentu.ca 

Research Interests: Colonial interactions, Indigenous perspectives of archaeology, settlement patterns, landscape archaeology, spatial analysis, Geographic Information Systems, human/environment interactions, Ancient Maya archaeology, Great Lakes archaeology

Current Projects

Maya responses to Spanish colonial policies of congregación at Coco Chan, Belize

Understanding Indigenous perspectives of archaeology: Collaborating on the design of a new digital field notes tool, STRATUM, by Archaeosoft Inc.

Selected Publications and Reports

McLellan, A.

2020     Settlement Change, Urbanism, and Human and Environment Interaction
at Lamanai and Ka’kabish: Two Precolumbian Maya Sites in Northern Belize. British Archaeological Reports, International Series 3007, Oxford.  

2020     The Precolumbian Maya Center of Coco Chan.  In Ka’kabish Archaeological Research Project (KARP) Report on the 2019 Archaeological Field Season, edited by K. Sagebiel, and H. Haines, Institute of Archaeology, Belmopan, Belize.

2020     A Small Group of Residential Structures Northwest of the Civic-Ceremonial Center of Ka'kabish. In Ka’kabish Archaeological Research Project (KARP) Report on the 2019 Archaeological Field Season, edited by K. Sagebiel, and H. Haines, Institute of Archaeology, Belmopan, Belize.

2017     Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Coco Chan and its Hinterland. In Ka’kabish Archaeological Research Project (KARP) Report on the 2016 Archaeological Field Season, edited by K. Sagebiel, and H. Haines, pp. 31-41. Institute of Archaeology, Belmopan, Belize.

McLellan, A., and C. Kitchen

2022     The Field’s site: University of Toronto, Stage 1 and 2 Archaeological Assessment of 50 Sussex Avenue, City of Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1J7, Canada Geographic Township of York, County of York, now in the City of Toronto, Report submitted to the Ontario Ministry of Heritage, Sport, Tourism and Culture Industries, Ontario, Canada.

2021     MJ O’Toole Site: University of Toronto, New Harbord Residence, Stage 1 and 2 Archaeological Assessment of 44-50 Harbord Street, City of Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1G2, Canada Geographic Township of York, County of York, now in the City of Toronto, Report submitted to the Ontario Ministry of Heritage, Sport, Tourism and Culture Industries, Ontario Canada.

Haines, H., K. Sagebiel, and A. McLellan

2019     The Beginning to the End and Over Again: An Overview of the Occupation History of Ka’kabish, Belize. Research Reports in Belizean Archaeology 16:187-198.

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