HALBERTA 1 J ArchaeologicaNo. 43 ISSN 0701-1176 Fall 2005 l MBB1 tn* iittsiiysiyili*ps*ss!gs!»«ia ;':*yi»«;y:&:iy",':" ^ Contents 2 Provincial Society Officers 2004-2005 18 ASA 2004 Financial Statement News & Short Reports 3 Editor's Note Features 3 Recent Alberta Graduate Degrees in 12 Educational Programs on the Archaeology of Archaeology Alberta: Cypress Hills Archaeological Project 4 ASA President's Report Summer 2005 5 ASA Annual General meeting Minutes 13 The (New) Oldest Graffiti at Writing-On- 6 In Memory Stone Provincial Park 7 AGM Centre Reports 19 ASA Issued Permits, November 2004 - Octo 11 Alberta Archaeological Review ber 2005 Financial Statement ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF ALBERTA Charter #2805, registered under the Societies Act of Alberta on February 7, 1957 PROVINCIAL SOCIETY OFFICERS 2004-2005 RED DEER CENTRE: President: Karen Kehoe President Dr. Shawn Bubel 3706-43 Avenue Department of Geography Red Deer AB T2N 3B6 University of Lethbridge Phone:403-358-2391 Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 soul_fire 19 @hotmail.com Phone:403-329-2531 Provincial Rep: Jean Kaufmann [email protected] SOUTHEASTERN ALBERTA Past-President Kate R. Chapman ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY: R.R.#2, Lacombe AB President: Janice Andreas T4L 2N2 46 Rossland Crescent SE Phone: 403-885-2924 Medicine Hat AB T1B 2B 6 [email protected] Phone: 403-526-3346 [email protected] Executive/ Jim McMurchy Provincial Rep: Ray Lusty Secretary/ 97 Eton Road West Treasurer Phone:403-381-2655 STRATHCONA CENTRE; [email protected] President: George Chalut 14716-65 Street Alberta Dr. John Dormaar Edmonton AB T5A 2E1 Archaeological Research Centre Phone:780-431-2329 Review: Agr. & Agri-Food Canada george.chalut @gov.ab.ca Editor PO Box 3000 Provincial Rep: Danielle Yeager Lethbridge AB T1J4B1 dormaar @agr.gc.ca Alberta Carol McCreary Alberta Archaeological Review Archeological Box 611 Review: Black Diamond AB TOL OHO Editor: John Dormaar (dormaar @agr.gc.ca) Distribution Phone:403-933-5155 Layout & Design: Sonia Zarrillo ([email protected]) j imcar @ telusplanet.net Distribution: Carol McCreary ([email protected]) REGIONAL CENTRES & MEMBER SOCIETIES Members of the Archaeological Society of Alberta of Alberta receive a copy of the Alberta Archaeological Review. Non- BODO ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY members and institutions may subscribe to the AAR for $15 per President Kim Larson calendar year. Cheques should be made payable to the Alberta c/o Leila Grobel Archaeological Review and sent to Carol McCreary, Box 611, P.O.Box 1436 Black Diamond, AB TOL OHO. Provost, AB T0B2S0 [email protected] The AAR welcomes submissions concerning Alberta archae­ Provincial Rep: Beth Mann ology or of special interest to practicing or avocational archae­ ologists in Alberta. Contributions may be submitted to the AAR CALGARY CENTRE: Editor at the address above. Articles should be submitted on President: Brian Vivian disk together with a hard copy in either WordPerfect or Micro­ 48 Cumberland Drive NW soft Word. A clean typewritten copy is also acceptable. Please Calgary AB T2K 1T1 contact the Editor for information of formatting, etc. The Edi­ Phone: 403-276-5910 tor reserves the right to send out the paper for review. Email: [email protected] Provincial Rep: Anne English Communications regarding membership in the Archaeological Society of Alberta or other Society matters should be ad­ LETHBRIDGE CENTRE: dressed to the Executive Secretary/Treasurer at the address President: Dr. Shawn Bubel given above. Department of Geography University of Lethbridge Views expressed in the ARR are those of the writers and do not Lethbridge AB T1K3M4 necessarily reflect those of the Archaeological Society of Al­ Phone:403-329-2531 berta. We welcome healthy debate. [email protected] Provincial Rep: Jim McMurchy Our Cover: See article on page 13. 2 The Alberta Archaeological Review Editor's Note By John Dormaar Summer came and went and now one can admire the au­ REVIEW. I had agreed to be your Editor from Issue 37 to tumn colours. As I look out of the window there are many Issue 42, inclusive. I have been involved in many activities signs of autumn, such as the gulls and crows gathering to get over the years, but I always restricted it to three years. My ready to travel to their winter quarters. I hope you all had a three years as your Editor are up. To make sure that there great summer in terms of learning about how people lived in will be continuity in publishing the Review, I will carry on Alberta over the centuries. You are always welcome to share an as needed basis. However, that does not mean I will carry your insights with the other readers of the Review. If you on forever! See advertisement elsewhere in this issue. have images to share, that will also be great. This is our pub­ lication, not mine alone. Visit the Archaeological Society of Alberta Website: www. debitage. ca I joined the Medicine Hat Chapter on their July 30/August 1 field trip to the Big Muddy in southern Saskatchewan. It This Website ought to be another venue for the archaeologi­ was a fascinating trip indeed. We were fortunate to have the cal community here in Alberta to learn about what is going keeper/custodian of the St. Victor's Petroglyphs, David on in Alberta, archaeologically speaking. The various Chap­ Monroe, explain them to us in detail. Afterwards, we all sat ters will be able to advertise what is going on in their vari­ and watched the sun go down. At the same time, great- ous corners of the Province. horned owls started to hoot and coyotes started to howl. It is a very special landscape. I suggest that every one keep an IMPORTANT DATE!!! eye on, and than avail themselves of, the offerings for field The next Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Society of trips by the Medicine Hat Chapter. There is always lots of Alberta will be at Lethbridge. Mark the following Date variety. 2006, April 28/29/30 in your calendars. Consult your calen­ dars regularly over the coming months, so you will not for­ By the time you receive this issue, the 63rd Annual Plains get this date. We are asking the speakers to explain the vari­ Anthropological Conference, held this time in Edmonton, ous methodologies used, not the Results. Since the recent and the Chacmool Conference, held at Calgary, will be his­ Annual Meeting at the Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park tory. I hope a number of you were able to participate. If you was our 30th, it will thus be most appropriate to start our had any Eureka moments, please, share them with us. new decade with the Annual Meeting at Lethbridge, as was our 1st Annual Meeting. Dr. Dick Forbis was our guest On a more somber note A NEW EDITOR IS STILL speaker at the time. NEEDED FOR THE ALBERTA ARCHAEOLOGICAL 2004/2005 Update of Alberta Graduate Degrees in Archaeology WILLIAMS, Jocelyn PhD 2005 Investigating diet and dietary change using the stable University of Calgary, Department of Archaeology isotopes of carbon and nitrogen in mummified tissues 2004/2005 from Puruchuco-Huaquerones, Peru ARDLEY, Shawna MA 2005 University of Alberta, Department of Anthropology Seasonal Variation in the Dietary Adequacy of the Rupununi (Archaeology-Related Degrees) 2004/2005 Makushi of Guyana, South America ANDERSON-McLEAN, Make PhD 2005 DE MILLE, Christy PhD 2005 To the centre of the circle: Pilgrimage to Lac Ste-Anne A Tale of Chert with a Side of Shell: the Preceramic Occu­ pation of Antigua, West Indies DROUIN, Bradley MA 2005 Grave architecture at Khuzhir-Nuge XIV: An early DERSCH, Ave MA 2004 Bronze Age cemetery from Cis-Baikal, Siberia Paleoethnobotany of the Upper Churchill River KJORLIEN, Yvonne MA 2005 KEMPENAAR, Edward MA 2005 Patterns in the scattering of remains due to scavenger Applying Communication Theory to Public Archaeology activity WICKHAM, Michelle MA 2005 ROSSI, Diana MA 2004 EfPm-27: Faunal Analysis of a Late Prehistoric Bison Bone Patterns of cortical and trabecular bone loss in a medie­ Bed in Fish Creek Provincial Park, Calgary val British skeletal sample WHITE, Julie-Anne MA 2004 SUTHERLAND, Patricia PhD 2004 Valdivian Ceramics: Production and Consumption at Loma Variability, historical contingency and cultural change Alta and Real Alto, Ecuador in northern archaeological sequences No. 43 Fall 2005 3 Archaeological Society of Alberta with the Saskatchewan Archaeological Society, from May President's Report 5-8, 2005. It was the first time these two Societies have held a joint meeting. Special thanks go out to Joanne Braaten, The Year 2004 in Review Jim Marshall and Jim McMurchy who assisted in the ar­ rangement of guest speakers and the organization of the Throughout this past year the Society Centres continued to meeting. be active in various activities and programs. The Provincial Society was not involved in any major projects per say, but The 2006 Annual General Meeting will be hosted by continues to support and participate in events organized by Lethbridge Centre. the individual Centres. Respectively submitted by Shawn Bubel, Society President. The Society is made up of six Centres [Strathcona (Edmonton & area), Bodo, Red Deer, Calgary, South East­ ern (Medicine Hat & area) and Lethbridge] and has a total membership of just under 300 individuals. NEW EDITOR NEEDED FOR THE The Society has seen two new papers in the Occasional Se­ ALBERTA ARCHAEOLOGICAL ries published in the past year, bringing the total now to REVIEW! four. Our sincere thanks are extended to Joanne Braaten and Dr. Len Hills for their efforts in having these publications The Alberta Archaeological Review is looking for| appear in print. Joanne Braaten, Carol McCreary and Jim McMurchy are also to be thanked for their continued work a new Editor effective immediately. in filling and shipping orders for these volumes, as well as the book Archaeology in Alberta: A view from the New Mil­ Requirements: lennium edited by Jack Brink and .