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Alberta Archaeological Review Alberta Archaeological Review NUMBER 31 ISSN 0701-1776 FALL 1999 INSIDE: 1999 Edmonton AGM Reports Page 3 Obituary: Richard G. Forbis Page 9 History of the Department of Archaeology, University of Calgary, R.G. Forbis Page 11 The Place of the Milk River Canyon in the Nomadic Culture, John Dormaar Page 13 Permits Issued September 1998 - December 1999 Page 22 ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF ALBERTA Charter #8205, registered under the Societies Act of Alberta on February 7, 1975 PROVINCIAL SOCIETY OFFICERS 1999-2000 President: Neil Mirau Peace River Archaeology Society 2315 20th Street President: Victoria Barsalou CoaldaleABTlMlG5 Peace River Centenntial Museum 403-345-3645 10302 99 St Peace River AB T8S 1K1 Past President: George Chalut Phone: 403-624-4261 147 1665th St FAX: 403-624-5378 Edmonton AB T5A 2E1 Provincial Rep Morris Burroughs Phone: 403-476-0561 South Eastern Alberta Archaeological Society Executive Jim McMurchy President: Veronica Blocksage Secretary/ 97 Eaton Rd West 11 Chow Avenue SE Treasurer Lethbridge AB T1K 4T9 Medicine Hat AB TIB 2S9 Phone: 403-381-2655 Provincial Rep Janice Andreas Alberta Archaeological Review Members of the Archaeological Society of Alberta receive a copy Editor Lesley Nicholls of the A Iberta Archaeological Review. Department of Archaeology Non-members and institutions may subscribe to the AAR for $12 University of Calgary. per calendar year. Cheques should be made payable to the Calgary AB T2N 1N4 Alberta Archaeological Review and should be sent to Carol Phone:403-220-7131 McCreary. FAX: 403-282-9567 Email: [email protected] The AAR welcomes submissions concerning Alberta archaeology or of special interest to practising or avocational archaeologists Distribution Carol McCreary in Alberta. Contributions may be submitted to the AAR Editor at Box 611, the address above. Articles should be submitted on disk together Black Diamond AB T0L OHO with a hard copy in either WordPerfect or Word. A clean Phone: 403-933-5155 typewritten copy is also acceptable. Please contact the Editor for information on formatting etc. REGIONAL CENTRES AND MEMBER SOCIETIES Communications regarding membership in the Archaeological Calgary Centre: Society of Alberta or other Society matters should be addressed President: Marshall Dzurko to the Executive Secretary/Treasurer at the address given above. 147 Woodfern Place SW Calgary AB T2W 4R7 Views expressed in the AAR are those of the writers and do not Phone: 403-251-0694 necessarily reflect those of the Archaeological Society of Alberta; Provincial Reps Wes Johnson, Brian Vivian we welcome healthy debate. Lethbridge Centre: President: Judy Sturgeon 92 McGill Blvd W Lethbridge AB T1K 4C4 Cover: Dr. Richard G. Forbis in Mexico in 1990 with students Provincial Rep Jim McMurchy Ian Robertson (left seated), Glenn Stuart (left standing), Mario Aliphat (centre standing) from the University of Calgary and Mexican colleagues. Photo courtesy of Brian Kooyman Clip Art © 1994-97, RT Computer Graphics Inc. NM. Director on 1st January 2000. Bob Janes is taking some time to relax and catch up with some writing before making any decisions about his future. LETTER FROM THE EDITOR Two new faculty members joined the Department of Archaeology As many of you at the University of Calgary this fall. know. the archaeological Warren Wilson received his PhD from the Department of community in Anthropology at the University of Colorado, Boulder. His research Alberta suffered a interests centre on Biological Anthropology/Human Ecology with great loss with the an emphasis on human adaptation, health, and nutrition in the death of Richard humid tropics and the use of remotely sensed data to analyze the G. Forbis this fall. relation-ship between natural resource use and human health. His I have included a dissertation fieldwork analyzed the diet and agricultural practices copy of his of Tukanoan Indians of the Colombian Amazon. obituary in this issue, together with a history of the Department of This past summer, Warren began a new project with Macusi Archaeology at the University of Calgary that Dick wrote some Indians in Guyana to study the impact of new conservation years ago. In many respects the Department is Dick's most programs instituted by the Guyanese government on the diet and important legacy and it is fitting that this history be published health of the Macusi. in this issue of the Review. Geoff McCafferty received his PhD from Brown University and Those of us who attended the 1999 AGM in Edmonton were then taught for some years at Salve Regina College in Providence treated to a great conference. I urge anyone who hasn't yet Rhode Island. His research interests lie in the late/Colonial period seen the new Syncrude Gallery of Aboriginal Culture to make of Mesoamerica. He has worked for many years at Cholula. In a point of doing so; its well worth the trip to Edmonton. Jack addition to Mesoamerica Geoff is interested in the historic Ives, Jack Brink and George Chalut are to be congratulated on archaeology of North America, in gender studies and in art history, organizing a great weekend. particularly relating to Mexico. Geoff is currently looking at various options for a new research project that will involve students Lastly, my apologies for the delay in getting the Fall 1999 from the University of Calgary. issue out; the Fall turned out to be unexpectedly busy and something had to give; unfortunately this time around it was The University of Calgary is gaining a glowing reputation for its the Review. Having worked hard to get the Review up to date programs in Latin American Studies and the arrival of Geoff and I just want to assure you all that I fully intend to keep it on Warren provide a welcome addition to the scholars working in this track and the spring issue should be out by the end of April as field. usual. Ian Kuijt accepted the position of archaeologist in the Department Leslev Nicholls, Editor of Geography at the University of Lethbridge. Ian obtained his B A from the University of Lethbridge, his MA from Simon Fraser University and his PhD from Harvard, specializing in the archaeology of the Near East. ON THE MOVE 24th ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING OF THE After 10 years at the ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF ALBERTA University of Calgary, Peter Mathews accepted a five-year PROVINCIAL MUSEUMOF ALBERTA research fellowship and a EDMONTON Professorship at LaTrobe MAY 14-16TH 1999 University. Melbourne. Australia. LaTrobe is in the PROGRAM: process of building up its program in Latin American Studies and Peter will play a major Friday 14th May, 1999 role in this endeavour. Peter was born and raised in Canberra so for him this is something of a homecoming. Registration and reception; ASA Executive Meeting Dr. Robert Janes resigned as Director of Glenbow Museum Saturday 15th May, 1999 effective 31st December 1999. Mike Robertson, until recently Director of the Arctic Institute of North America at the Erick Damkjar (ERD Heritage Consulting) University of Calgary, takes over as Glenbow Museum's Circles and Lines: 1996 Excavations at Cranfor, Alberta Jack Brink (ASA. PMA) Ian Campbell (U of A) Little Big Horn Saving Face: Experiments in the Preservation of Rock Art at Writing on Stone Sunday May 16, 1999 Walking tour of Edmonton and "Behind the Scenes" Tour at the Terry Gibson and Jim Finnigan (Western Heritage Services) PMA Developing and Evaluating a Digital Heritage Potential Model for the Whitecourt/Lesser Slave Lake Region Caroline Hudecek-Cuffe (U of A) Minutes of the Annual General Meeting Archaeological Research in Jasper National Park: A Univesity of Alberta-Parks Canada Partnership The meeting was called to order at 5:15 p.m. by President George Chalut with 36 members present. Nancy Saxberg and Brian Reeves(Lifeways of Canada) After the Flood: Early Postglacial Native Culture History The Chairman opened the meeting with an advisement that to save and Reoccupation of the Athabasca Lowlands (9500 to 7500 time, not all reports would be read as they were printed and years ago) distributed with the registration material. Alwynne Beaudoin (ASA, PMA) Moved by Morris Burroughs, seconded by Lorine Marshall that the Seeds, Snails and Salamanders: Snapshot of a 9000 Year minutes of the 1998 AGM held in Grande Prairie be approved as Old Slough printed and distributed. Motion carried. Trevor Peck. U of C Jim McMurchy provided an update to the printed December 31. 1998 financial statement. The report indicated the following grants Archaeology of the Dammed: Preliminary Results From the from the ASA had been approved by the executive at their meeting Oldman River Historical Resources Monitoring on February 20, 1999 or at previous meetings but had not been Programme paid. They were as follows: Brian Kooyman, U of C Extinct Mammals and Early Human Adaptation in the St $15,000 - for the publication of a book on Alberta archaeology Mary's Basin as our millennium project $ 3,000 - to the U of C for their Public Archaeology Program Luncheon Speaker: $ 2,500 - to Barry Wood to continue his research project in SW Alberta. Waterton Park area John Dormaar. Lethbridge Centre $ 2,500 - to Lethbridge Centre to assist in reprinting the book The Milk River Country. "Record in Stone" Heinz Pyszczyk (ASA. PMA) If and when these funds are distributed, it will leave a balance of Little Fort on "Des Prairie", Fort La Jonquiere in Alberta: $180.08 in the bank account pending receipt of our grant from the Fact or Fiction? Alberta Historical Resources Foundation. Ted Binnema (Dept of History. U of A) Moved by Jim McMurchy that the financial report as printed be A View from the Plains: Blackfoot and Gros Ventre Maps approved and adopted. The motion was seconded by Beth Macintosh. Carried. of the Northwestern Plains Jack Ives (PMA) Chairman George asked for any comments or questions regarding Black Dragon Rising - An Exhibit Preview the other printed reports from the Centres that were distributed.
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