Year: 2021, 2021
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Smith, Daniel Case, Thesis advisor (ths): Conolly, James, Degree committee member (dgc): Fox, William, Degree committee member (dgc): Szpak, Paul, Degree committee member (dgc): Birch , Jennifer, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>The goal of the thesis is to establish the temporal patterning of the cultural complexes of the Middle to Late Woodland periods in Ontario. To do so I examine the statistical shape and phase boundaries of samples of radiocarbon dates associated with the Princess Point, Sandbanks, Glen Meyer, and Pickering archaeological complexes. The radiocarbon dates used for this thesis were collected… more Year: 2021, 2021
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Abstract: <p>The tools and techniques used by Ontario's Middle Woodland potters to create designs on vessels have often been assumed in the literature. Pottery typologies currently use these assumptions to classify ceramics found in the archaeological record. Assumed, or suggested, tools and techniques include cord impression, cord-wrapped stick, fabric impression, fabric-wrapped paddle, incised… more Year: 2021, 2021
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Name(s): Creator (cre): England, Josh, Thesis advisor (ths): Elton, Hugh, Degree committee member (dgc): Conolly, James, Degree committee member (dgc): Fox, William, Degree committee member (dgc): Eastwood, Warren, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>Olives have been grown in the Mediterranean region for millennia and have been a staple crop in many of its cultures. This was never more true than during the Hellenistic (323 – 133 BC) and Roman (133 BC – AD 450) periods in the Mediterranean. This thesis examines the territory of the Roman city of Sagalassos in the region of Pisidia, modern province of Burdur, and determines if olives… more Year: 2021, 2021
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Name(s): Creator (cre): Campsall, Olivia Devon Grace, Thesis advisor (ths): Fox, William, Thesis advisor (ths): Dubreuil, Laure, Degree committee member (dgc): Munson, Marit, Degree committee member (dgc): Hawkins, Alicia, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>On the North Shore of Lake Ontario near Port Hope, Ontario is a large archaeological site (BaGo-29) that has been visited and occupied multiple times over the millennia. First called the Beatty site was originally excavated by avocational archaeologist Mr. Ed. Austin between 1963 and 1972. In the subsequent decades, the Beatty site would be revisited, renamed the Gibbs site, and re-… more
