Studies of people
important
to Canada, Canadian history and Canadian anthropology
- 1977 The Huron
Spine.
PhD
thesis University of Toronto
patterns of vertebral trauma
and degeneration alter according to morphological variations in
vertebral
columns (link to summary)
- 1983 Osteological
evidence for smallpox:
a possible case from seventeenth century Ontario. American Journal
of
Physical Anthropology 60: 75-81
the starting point of a
long-established
interest in history, ethnohistory and epidemiology
- 1986 The mortality of
Ontario archaeological
populations. Canadian Journal of Anthropology 5(2): 33-48
a first attempt at trying to
make sense of palaeodemographical paradoxes (link)
- 1988 The Osteology
of the Grimsby
Site. Department of Anthropology, University of Alberta
a full description of a
people
who were caught up in the terrible events of the 1640s, and again in
the
politics of the 1970s
(14 chapters and 36 plates,
plus 3 appendices, work in association with Gary Tait and Kim
Schneider, available on cd)
- 1994 Birth rates and
bones. In,
A. Herring and L. Chan (eds.), Strength in Diversity: a Reader in
Physical
Anthropology Canadian Scholar's Press, Toronto pp. 155-185
using ethnohistory to test
whether
skeletal biologists can make useful estimates of birth rates (link)
- 1996 Complexity in
seventeenth century
southern Ontario burial practices. In, D. A. Meyer, P. C. Dawson and
D.T.
Hanna (eds.), Debating Complexity: Proceedings of the 26th Annual
Chacmool
Conference. Calgary: Archaeological Association, University of
Calgary,
pp. 127-140
the Neutral were an
important
people to whom less attention is accorded than they deserve - what can
their mortuary practices tell us about their society? (link
to text)
- 2000 Ethnohistory and
osteology
in southern Ontario. In, The Entangled Past: Integrating History
and
Archaeology. Papers of the 30th Annual Chacmool Conference Calgary:
Archaeological Association, University of Calgary
using ethnohistory to show
that
skeletal biologists have underestimated longevity (link)
- 2009: "The mid seventeenth century
collapse of
Iroquoian Ontario:
examining the last great burial place of the Neutral Nation" Vers une
anthropologie des catastrophes
9e
Journées
Anthropologiques de Valbonne (link)
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