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September 2024

Lacy, Robyn S. (2024) ‘Sic Finis’ 17th-century burial places & spaces in northeast North America. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

McMillan, Alessandra Jordyn (2024) Death and heritage: an archaeological analysis of the differential treatment of two historic burial grounds in Ferryland, Newfoundland. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Onah, Ujunwa Rita (2024) An archaeology of resilience: decolonizing Igbo and Labrador Inuit histories. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Salazar Guerra, Carlos Enrique (2024) Testing a methodology for high-resolution Archaeoentomology to examine human-environment interactions at L’Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

April 2024

Munkittrick, Tricia Jessica Anne (2024) Regional insights into childhood lead exposure from historical North American skeletal remains. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

March 2024

Baird, Jeffery (2024) A palynological view of selected Norse-era cultural landscapes and subsistence strategies in Greenland. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Tuck, Emlyn (2024) Monuments and memory: an examination of the Newfoundland and Labrador commemoration landscape and its place in the global monumentality issue. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

December 2023

Lanphear, Juliet (2023) Visualizing Scandinavian stories: an exploration of the history of Scandinavian involvement in archaeological research at L'Anse Aux Meadows. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Predham, Ian Thomas Gordon (2023) Coastal landscapes & indigenous histories of shellfish harvesting in Atlantic Canada: Mya arenaria as a new proxy for shellfish harvesting pressure in Port Joli, Nova Scotia. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

August 2023

MacKinnon, Megan (2023) Paleoclimates of Mi’kma’ki: a sclerochronological analysis of Crassostrea virginica from an archaeological context in Malpeque Bay, Prince Edward Island. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

July 2023

Dusseault, Marisa (2023) Radiocarbon dating marine shell: challenges and opportunities in Canadian coastal archaeology. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Ruiz Peralta, Nadia (2023) Countermonumentality and memory: the case of the Glorieta de Colón monument in Mexico City. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

March 2023

McLean, Chase K.A. (2023) Establishing beneficial roles: integrating community members into archaeological practices in Atlantic Canada. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

December 2022

Brake, Jamie E. S. (2022) Heritage policy landscapes of Nunatsiavut: approaching the development of historic resource management policy and law in Northern Labrador. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Hoskins, Robynn Leigh (2022) Waifs, women and work: impoverished experiences in the Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon fisheries from the seventeenth- to the twentieth-centuries. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Milliard, Pier-Ann (2022) A beetle-based palaeoecological reconstruction of human-environment interactions in Kivalekh, northern Labrador. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

October 2022

Speller, Jeffrey G. (2022) A palaeoecological and archaeological analysis of plant macrofossils from monolith 4A800B3-6 at L’Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

September 2022

Garlie, Megan Elizabeth (2022) An isotopic investigation of the diet and origins of 18th- and 19th-century individuals from Newfoundland and Louisbourg, Nova Scotia. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

July 2022

Levasseur, Francois P. (2022) 3D scanning and geometric morphometrics: an investigation of Dorset harpoon head variability. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Robinson, Sarah Laureen (2022) Inuit understandings of space: an oral historical and GIS approach to toponyms with knowledge holders in Hopedale, Nunatsiavut. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

May 2022

Carlson, Ivan (2022) The Genesis of Labrador's Indigenous landscapes: a review of research approaches and current knowledge. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

March 2022

De La Plante, Jake (2022) Re-examining the lives of an 18th century garrison at Admiral’s/Fort Point, Trinity, Newfoundland. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

January 2022

Cameron, Ashley (2022) Archaeological material analysis of FjCa-51, area 11 Sheshatshiu, Labrador. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

October 2021

Bethune, Eileen (2021) “That the whole may be a prettie streete”: an analysis of the 17th- century cobblestone street at Ferryland, Newfoundland. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

August 2021

Archer, J.D. (2021) Smoky, noisy, bloody, violent, and smelly: the seventeenth-century detached kitchen at Ferryland, Newfoundland. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Kuehn, Sarah (2021) Dual-bivalve proxy analysis of shellfish harvest intensity, and palaeotemperture in Powell River, British Columbia. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

June 2021

Rand, Asta Jade (2021) Prehispanic and colonial Maya subsistence and migration: contributions from stable sulfur isotope analysis. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

November 2020

Osmond, Jazpyn (2020) When you can't unearth the covered up: archaeology and the memorialization of Mount Cashel orphanage. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Wilson, Sarah M. (2020) Following stones: navigating the landscape in northern Labrador. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

September 2020

Sparrow, Anna (2020) Examining diets, identities, and entanglements of Coast Salish dogs. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

May 2020

Spiwak, Alexa D. (2020) A slator or two: exploring the 17th-century slate industry at Ferryland. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

November 2019

Petty, Ian C. (2019) "As elegant as they are novel": exploring consumption patterns of eighteenth-century ceramics from Newfoundland and the northeast. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

September 2019

Wolfrum, A. A. (2019) Archaeo-geophysical survey on the Ushpitun landform, Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Labrador. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

May 2019

Brenan, Julia (2019) Archaeology and memories on Birch Island. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Jalbert, Catherine L. (2019) Archaeology in Canada: an analysis of demographics and working conditions in the discipline. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

April 2019

Jankunis, Vincent E. (2019) Divided but together: variation in 18th-century Labrador Inuit housing as seen in House 3 at Double Mer Point (GbBo-2). Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

February 2019

Williams, Duncan (2019) 'A large house on the downs': household archaeology and middle-class gentility in early 19th-century Ferryland, Newfoundland. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

October 2018

Jones-Doyle, Annique (2018) Maritime consumption on Newfoundland's Petit Nord: material expressions of identity on the Champ Paya fishing station. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

September 2018

Poirier, Claire Charlotte (2018) Hunting buffalo under the ground: encounters in heritage management. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

May 2018

Clausnitzer, Arthur R., Jr. (2018) The seventeenth-century English cod fisheries of Newfoundland and New England, circa 1600-1713: an archaeological and historical comparison. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Leclerc, Natasha (2018) Long-term histories of clam harvesting and seasonal settlement strategies on Shíshálh Lands, British Columbia. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Walley, Meghan (2018) Examining precontact Inuit gender complexity and its discursive potential for LGBTQ2S+ and decolonization movements. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

15 December 2017

Johnson-Henke, Anita (2017) Testing the waters: intertidal zone archaeology at the Beaches site (DeAk-01). Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

December 2017

Bower, Megan A. (2017) Exploring the potential of strontium isotope analysis to detect archaeological migration events in Southern Ontario, Canada. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

10 November 2017

Elliott, Deirdre A. (2017) Investigating the effect of European contact on Inuit-animal interactions in Labrador. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

September 2017

Lacy, Robyn S. (2017) 'Here lieth interr'd': an examination of 17th-century British burial landscapes in eastern North America. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Merner, Courtney (2017) Reconstructing Southeast Iberian copper age mobility: a strontium isotope analysis of the Camino del Molino mass burial. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

August 2017

Newcombe, Simon (2017) An examination of military life in 18th-century Newfoundland using the archaeological remains of an officers' barracks on Bois Island, Ferryland (CgAf-1). Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

May 2017

Chase, Amy (2017) On the emergence of art and symbolism: the case of Neandertal 'art' in northern Spain. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Venovcevs, Anatolijs (2017) Not just fisherfolk: winter housing and the seasonal lifeways of rural Euro-Newfoundlanders. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

January 2017

Riley, Dustin (2017) The caves of Cantabria: non-figurative cave art in Northern Spain. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

December 2016

Campbell, John Andrew (2016) Mu Awsami Keji'kewe'k L'nuk Mi'kmak'i: New Perspectives on the Transitional Archaic Period in Southwestern Nova Scotia. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

November 2016

Harris, Alison J. T. (2016) Stable isotope evidence for Amerindian subsistence in Newfoundland, 2800 B.C. to A.D. 1829. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

September 2016

Fay, Amelia E. M. (2016) Understanding Inuit-European contact along the Labrador Coast: a case for continuity. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

April 2016

Hawkins, Catherine Margaret (2016) Surrey-Hampshire border ware ceramics in seventeenth-century English North America. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

February 2016

Neilsen, Scott W. (2016) An archaeological history of Ashuanipi, Labrador. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

December 2015

Young-Boyle, Chandra (2015) Archaeological otoliths as environmental recorders: high resolution sampling of pacific cod (Gadus macrocephalus) otoliths from Kiska Island, Alaska. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

November 2015

Munkittrick, Tricia Jessica Anne (2015) A nursery for seamen: life histories from the St. John's Royal Naval Hospital Cemetery, Newfoundland. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

October 2015

Lacroix, Dominic (2015) Mobility, ceremonialism, and group identity in archaic Newfoundland. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

August 2015

Bohms, Jeralyn (2015) Illuminating Inuit life at Double Mer Point: the excavation of an 18th-century communal winter house. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

May 2015

White, Lori M. (2015) The saddle island cemetery: a study of whalers at a sixteenth-century basque whaling station in Red Bay, Labrador. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

April 2015

Daly, Lisa M. (2015) Aviation archaeology of World War II Gander: an examination of military and civilian life at the Newfoundland airport. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Ingram, Sarah Joy (2015) "By which so much happiness is produced": an analysis of the seventeenth-century Kirke Tavern at Ferryland, Newfoundland. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

2015

Hamilton, Tyrone (2015) An experimental geochemical characterization analysis of archaeological iron from the contact period of Newfoundland and Labrador. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

October 2014

Miszaniec, Jason Ian (2014) Dorset use and selection of firewood at Phillip's Garden, Northern Peninsula, Newfoundland: an application of wood identification on archaeological charcoal and contemporary driftwood. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Tapper, Bryn (2014) An archaeological analysis of the distribution of French fishing rooms on the Petit Nord, Newfoundland. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

May 2014

Davies, Michelle Tari (2014) Gender, work and value among the Inuit in 18th century Labrador. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Ellerbrok, Brittany Ann (2014) An isotopic reconstruction of diet and origins in an 18th-century mass burial site at the Fortress of Louisbourg, Nova Scotia. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Milner, Cameron A. (2014) The precontact village at St. Croix (BfDa-1), Nova Scotia: explorations of site size and stratigraphic integrity. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Morrison, Adrian (2014) From workplace to home space: archaeology at the James M. Rogers sawmill, Scots Bay, Nova Scotia (BhDc-16). Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Robinson, Christina E. (2014) What lies beneath?: three non-intrusive archaeological surveys to identify dorset Palaeoeskimo dwellings at Phillip's Garden, Port au Choix, Newfoundland. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

2014

Pike, Kelly-Anne (2014) Bearing identity: a biocultural analysis of human remains from Old Mission Point (C1Dq-1), New Brunswick. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

June 2013

Wolfe, Kara (2013) Culture contact in Southern Labrador and Newfoundland's Great Northern Peninsula: an ethnohistorical and archaeological approach. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

2013

Brandy, Eliza McLaren (2013) Inuit animal use and shifting identities in 19th-century Labrador: the zooarchaeology of Snooks Cove. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Hatcher, Hilary Margaret (2013) Exploring an Anglophone presence at the French fishing room, Champ Paya, at Dos de Cheval (EfAx-09) in Cap Rouge Harbour, Newfoundland. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Keddy, Joshua A. (2013) An analysis of artifact morphology and material frequence in eight early to middle Labrador archaic lithic assemblages from Northern Labrador. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Miller, Aaron F. (2013) Avalon and Maryland: a comparative historical archaeology of the seventeenth-century new world provinces of the lords Baltimore (1621-1644). Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Tudor, Corina A. (2013) Geophysical investigations at the dorset Palaeoeskimo site of Phillip's Garden, Port au Choix, Northwestern Newfoundland. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

2012

Guiry, Eric James (2012) Dogs as analogs in stable isotope-based human paleodietary reconstructions: assessing the Canine Surrogacy Approach. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

MacLeod-Leslie, Heather A. (2012) SANKOFA/Return and get it: an archaeological exploration of black loyalist identity and culture in Nova Scotia. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Wells, Patricia Jean (2012) Social life and technical practice: an analysis of the osseous tool assemblage at the dorset palaeoeskimo site of Philip's Garden, Newfoundland. Doctoral (PhD) thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

2011

Anstey, Robert J. (2011) The Dorset palaeoeskimo sites of Point Riche and Phillip's Garden, Port Au Choix, northwestern Newfoundland: investigating social and functional connections. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Clausnitzer, Arthur R. (2011) As well as any beere: the seventeenth-century brewhouse and bakery at Ferryland, Newfoundland. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Cromwell, Thomas E.G.S. (2011) The new fort: an examination of the design and construction of an 18th-century fort in Placentia, Newfoundland. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Hutchings, Corey Allan (2011) Complexity and continuity: Labrador archaic occupations at Nulliak Cove, Labrador. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Jalbert, Catherine L. (2011) A lesson in stone: examining patterns of lithic resources use and craft-learning in the Minas Basin region of Nova Scotia. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Kelvin, Laura Elena (2011) The Inuit-Metis of Sandwich Bay: oral histories and archaeology. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Murphy, Phoebe (2011) The southern component of the Labrador Inuit communal house phase: the analysis of an 18th century Inuit house at Huntingdon Island 5 (FkBg-3). Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Negrijn, Meghan E. (2011) Consumer choice in Komaktorvik, Seven Islands Bay and Kongu, Nachvak Fjord. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

St. John, Amy (2011) An interpretation of French ceramics from a migratory fishing station, Dos de Cheval, Newfoundland (EfAx-09). Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

2010

Cloutier-Glinas, Maryse (2010) Through space, time, and otherness : a spatial analysis of fifteenth to twentieth century Labrador Inuit settlement patterns. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Kristensen, Todd J. (2010) L'Anse aux Meadows (EjAv-01) : an archaeological and ethnohistorical investigation of bird use during the recent Indian period in Newfoundland and Labrador. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Lavers, Dominique (2010) The recent Indian Cow Head complex occupation of the Northern Peninsula, Newfoundland : a geochemical investigation of Cow Head chert acquisition. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Noël, Stéphane (2010) Fishermen's foodways on the Petit Nord: faunal analysis of a seasonal fishing station at the Dos de Cheval site (EfAx-09), Newfoundland. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

2009

Bambrick, Jillian (2009) Palaeoeskimo sealskin processing in Port au Choix, northwestern Newfoundland: a paleoenvironmental analysis. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Dick-Jacobson, Talva (2009) A view of folk pottery's muddy past as seen through clay: an analysis on a sample of ceramics found at the historic Caldwell Pottery factory site in Arrow Rock, Missouri. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Fleming, Robyn D. (2009) Robert's Cove I (DjAv-05) : a transitional recent Indian site on the northeast coast of Newfoundland. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Hardenberg, Mariane (2009) In search of Thule children : miniature playthings as a means of socializing children. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Jones, Jennifer K. (2009) Pêcheurs, Pâturages, et petit jardins: a nineteenth-century gardien homestead in the Petit Nord, Newfoundland. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Stapelfeldt, Kora (2009) A form and function study of precontact pottery from Atlantic Canada. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Tourigny, Eric (2009) What ladies and gentlemen ate for dinner: the analysis of faunal materials recovered from a seventeenth-century high-status English household, Ferryland, Newfoundland. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

2008

Barnable, K. Stuart (Kenneth Stuart) (2008) Rattling Brook 1 (DgAt-1) : an examination of middle Dorset inner bay settlements. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Beaudoin, Matthew A. (2008) Sweeping the floor: an archaeological examination of a multi-ethnic sod house in Labrador (FkBg-24). Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Burns, Melissa (2008) Symbols of the French presence in Newfoundland: Breton crosses and calvaries - 1680 to today. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Butler, Don H. (Donald Hugh) (2008) Geochemical exploration of Inuit soilscapes in northern Labrador. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Fay, Amelia E. M. (2008) Creating a community archaeology in Nain. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Higdon, John Lawrence (2008) An experimental approach to Inuit ground stone technology at Nachvak Fiord, Labrador. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Jurakic, Irena (2008) Up North : European ceramics and tobacco pipes at the nineteenth-century contact period Inuit winter village site of Kongu (IgCv-7), Nachvak Fiord, Northern Labrador. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Knapp, R.E. (Rebecca Elise) (2008) An analysis of tabular slate tools from Phillip's Garden (EeBi-1), a Dorset Palaeoeskimo site in Northwestern Newfoundland. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Pace, Jessica E. (Jessica Erin) (2008) This is where I live, but it's not my home : archaeology and identity in Sandwich Bay, Labrador. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Swinarton, Lindsay E. (Lindsay Ellen) (2008) Animals and the precontact Inuit of Labrador: an examination using faunal remains, space and myth. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

2007

Leskovec, Barbara. (2007) A rural drinking establishment in Ferryland: life in eighteenth-century Newfoundland. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Millson, Dana (2007) A re-evaluation of grooved ware in the Milfield Basin, Northumberland: a vitrified foundation. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.

September 2005

Cave, Beverley (2005) The petroglyphs of Kejimkujik National Park, Nova Scotia: a fresh perspective on their physical and cultural contexts. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.