Archaeology on the Edge

by Kooyman, Brian; Kelley, Jane H.

• ISBN13: 9781552381380
• ISBN10: 1552381382
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-06-04
• Publisher: Univ of Calgary Pr

Summary

Dedicated to the memory of Richard G Forbis, this collection of papers presented by his students and colleagues represents more than a tribute to a pioneer and legend in Alberta archaeology. Dick Forbis was seminal in putting archaeology in Alberta on the road it has taken and in establishing the field of cultural resource management. Throughout his career, he was passionate about many issues facing modern archaeology and imparted his concern and enthusiasm to his students and colleagues seeking to push the boundaries of our preconceptions and encouraged those around him to find answers to many difficult yet challenging questions. In this spirit, the papers chosen for this collection focus on new directions in northern plains archaeological research and are a unique and topical contribution to modern archaeology.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(8)
BRIAN KOOYMAN & JANE KELLEY
Remembering Dick Forbis	9	(4)
SCOTT RAYMOND
Between Racism and Romanticism, Scientism and Spiritualism: The Dilemmas of New World Archaeology	13	(10)
ROBERT MCGHEE
Manyberries Cairn DgOo-1, Alberta, Canada	23	(16)
J.F. DORMAAR
Mortlach and One-Gun: Phase to Phase	39	(14)
DALE WALDE
Editing the Cultural Landscape: A Taphonomic Perspective on the Destruction of Aboriginal Sites on the Northwestern Plains	53	(26)
MICHAEL C. WILSON
Late Pleistocene Geology and Fauna of the Wally's Beach Site (DhPg-8) Alberta, Canada	79	(16)
PAUL MCNEIL, L.V. HILLS, B. KOOYMAN & M. SHAYNE TOLMAN
Islands in a Sea of Grass: The Significance of Wood in Winter Campsite Selection on the Northwestern Plains	95	(30)
J. ROD VICKERS & TREVOR R. PECK
Stone Circles, Social Organization and Special Places: Forbis' Skepticism Revisited	125	(32)
GERALD A. OETELAAR
The Lessons of Buffalo Bird Woman: Faunal Abundance and Representation from Plains Oral History	157	(30)
JACK W. BRINK
Identification of Marrow Extraction in Zooarchaeological Assemblages Based on Fracture Patterns	187	(24)
BRIAN KOOYMAN
Communal Hunting as a Social Model for the Paleoindian to Early Archaic Transition on the Plains	211	(20)
ELIZABETH ROBERTSON
Horse Heaven: Change in Late Precontact to Contact Period Landscape Use in Southern Alberta	231
ALISON LANDALS