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dSpace: Labrets by Marina La Salle
Tlingit Woman with Labret, Yakutat 1837 Labrets, decorative inserts worn in the lip, are an extraordinary artifact type. It is hard to think of a more intimate or personal artifact, or at least, one...
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dSpace: Dentalia Shells on the Northwest Coast
Dentalia Source "mu7is" in Hesquiat Harbour. From Barton M.A. p. 116 Andrew Barton did an excellent job reviewing the biology of the Scaphopoda, the archaeological record of dentalia use and trade, and...
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dSpace: Elroy White (Xanius) on Fishtraps
FbTa 59, a possible clam garden on the central coast. Source: Elroy White / Xanius M.A. thesis. I’ve only met Elroy once or twice but he seems like a sharp guy and I was looking forward to reading his...
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Speaking of dSpace
The Globe and Mail has a story on the (in progress) digitization and internet posting of UBC’s complete run of over 35,500 theses and dissertations – with an arch response by SFU’s Dean of Libraries...
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dSpace: Caldwell on Comox Harbour Fishtraps
Chevron-shaped fishtraps in Comox Harbour. From Caldwell 2008. The University of Manitoba is in on the dSpace trend. The most notable thesis I found there was Megan Caldwell’s excellent analysis of...
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dSpace: The Indian History Film Project
Haida Town of Chaatl. Source: NMC There is an interesting archive of interview transcripts housed in dSpace at the University of Regina. Most of the interviews were by CBC Radio’s Imbert Orchard and...
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Punchaw Lake Geochemistry
Elongate side-notched points from Punchaw Lake. Source: Montgomery 1978. Archaeologists are often pretty lousy geologists. Nowhere is this more apparent in the use of visual cues to classify rock...
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Speaking of Ozette: dSpace resources.
The "White Series" Ozette reports are freely available for download! Image shows house-plank decoration from the Ozette Site, used as cover art for these reports. This space has recently carried a lot...
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dSpace: Adams on Gabriola Petroglyphs
Gabriola Petroglyph Design Elements. Source: Adams 2003. One recent M.A. thesis I was really looking forward to reading is by Amanda Adams entitled Visions cast on stone : a stylistic analysis of the...
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A Portal to Online Graduate Theses and Dissertations
If you look up you should see two more links have been added along the header of this page, just above the banner picture. ARCHAEOLOGY THESES is a page of links to freely-available, online PDF copies...
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