Student Research Achievments & Opportunities
The Museum of Ontario Archaeology, as an affiliate of The University of Western Ontario, has always stressed the need to make available the results of its research and cultural resource management projects for student research at the undergraduate, M.A. and Ph.D. levels, and to disseminate the results of this student research by publishing it in either the Research Report or Bulletin series. The Museum also has a variety of collections which are available to undergraduate and graduate student research at Universities in Ontario and beyond.
- Undergraduate Papers
- M.A. Theses
- Ph.D. Theses
Undergraduate Research Papers
For more than 25 years, Museum staff collaborated with Dr. Howard Savage and the Faunal Osteology Laboratory at the University of Toronto by providing collections of animal bones from Museum field projects for undergraduate research projects in which students were required to identify and analyse 500 bones. The following projects have been completed:
- Barnhardt, Kim 1986, Winking Bull site
- Boutin-Sweet, Marjolaine 1981, Chypchar site
- Burns, James A. 1969, Milton site
- Carter, Beckie 1980, Brown site
- Cooper, Martin 1980, Brown site
- Casey, Joanna 1987, Crawford Lake site
- Davis, Anne 1990, Sifton site
- Fairgrieve, Scott 1988, Bennett site
- Frame, Sheelagh 1987, Crawford Lake site
- Graham, Kathleen, 1981, Chypchar site
- Haines, Helen, 1990, Scout site
- Huggins, Robert James, 1978, Magnetometer Survey of the Lawson Site
- Komar, Debra 1993, Itldu site
- Leventhal, Anna 1989, Carton site
- Marchand, Elizabeth 1971, Brown site
- Marti, Chris 1988, Bennett site
- Matilla, Harri 1987, Winking Bull site
- McCullough, J 1993, Fairview site
- Muir, Jeff 1994, Lawson site
- Mullen, Grant 1985, H&R and Retreat sites
- Pudden, Emily 1995, Acheson site
- Rankin, Paul 1994, Unick site
- Renzoni, Mark 1994, VanEden site
- Smith, Emma 1991, Metate site
M.A. Theses
- Bohdanowicz, Anne 1978 Geochemical Investigations of Archaeological Sediments on the Draper Site. Department of Geography, TheUniversity of Western Ontario. Published as L.M.A. Research Report 7.
- Busby, Melanie 1979 The Pipeline Site, A Component of the Late Ontario Iroquois Stage. Department of Anthropology, TrentUniversity. Published as L.M.A. Research Report 10.
- Carter, Jacqueline 1981 Spang: A Sixteenth Century Huron Village Site, Pickering, Ontario. Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto.
- Fontaine, Adriana 2004 Scattered Bone: Human Remains from the Lawson Site. Department of Anthropology, University of Western Ontario.
- Howie-Langs, Linda 1998 The Praying Mantis Site: A Study of Ceramic Variability and Cultural Behaviour at an Early Iroquoian Village. Department of Anthropology, University of Western Ontario.
- Keron, James 2003 Iroquoian Chert Acquisition: Changing Patterns in the Late Woodland of Southwestern Ontario. Department of Anthropology, University of Western Ontario.
- Lerner, Harry 2000 From Static Types to Dynamic Variables: Re-Assessing the Methods of Prehistoric Huron Chipped Stone Tool Documentation and Analysis in Ontario. Department of Anthropology, McGill University.
- McCullough, Karen 1978 Modified Deer Phalanges at the Draper Site. Department of Archaeology, University of Calgary. Published as L.M.A. Research Report 5, 1978.
- Pawlowski, Andrew 2005 An Examination of Foreign Ceramic Styles: Parker Festooned in Southwestern Ontario Neutral Sites. Department of Anthropology, University of Western Ontario.
- Rainey, Dori 2002 Challenging Assumptions: An Analysis of the Scattered Human Remains at the Keffer Site. Department of Anthropology, University of Western Ontario.
- Sherratt, James 2003 The Chypchar Site (AiGx-73): A Study of Ceramic Variability and Social Organization at a Middle Ontario Iroquoian Village. Department of Anthropology, University of Western Ontario.
- Smith, Angele 1991 An Alternative Approach to the Analysis of a Chief's House. Department of Anthropology, McMaster University.
- Smith, David G. 1980 An Analytical Approach to the Seriation of Iroquoian Pottery. Department of Anthropology, McGill University. Published as L.M.A. Research Report 12, 1983.
- vonGernet, Alexander 1982 Analysis of Intrasite Artifact Spatial Distributions: The Draper Site Smoking Pipes. Published as L.M.A. Research Report 16, 1985.
- Williamson, Ronald F. 1985 The Robin Hood Site: A Study of Functional Variability in Late Ontario Iroquoian Settlement Patterns. Department of Anthropology, McGill University.
Ph. D. Theses
- Mark, Frazer 1983 Investigation of Soils Within and Beneath the Midden Deposits of Two Huron Villages. Department of Geography, The University of Western Ontario.
- Pearce, Robert J. 1985 Mapping Middleport: A Case Study in Societal Archaeology. Department of Anthropology, McGill University. Published as L.M.A. Research Report 25, 1997.
- Smith, David G. 1987 Archaeological Systematics and the Analysis of Iroquoian Ceramics: A Case Study from the Crawford Lake Area. Department of Anthropology, McGill University. Published as L.M.A. Bulletin 15, 1997.
- Stewart, Francis 1997 Proto-Huron/Petun and Proto-St. Lawrence Iroquoian Subsistence as Culturally Defining. Department of Anthropology, McGill University. Published as L.M.A. Bulletin 17, 1999.
Post-doctoral fellowships
- Stewart, Francis 1997 Prehistoric Neutral Subsistence in the Crawford Lake Region. Department of Anthropology, University of Western Ontario.
Data available for graduate research theses!
