Archaeology Programmes |
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| Institution: McMaster University | Department: Anthropology |
Location: Hamilton, Ontario
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1. Degrees in Archaeology or Bioarchaeology Offered:
BA, MA, PhD
-Honours in Anthropology and Interdisciplinary Minor in Archaeology available for the BA program
- Funding available for eligible full time MA and PhD students
2. Faculty (Archaeology):
Dr. Aubrey Cannon
Archaeological theory, the archaeology of hunter-gatherer settlement and subsistence, marine-based economies, mortuary practices, and material fashion
Dr. Laura Finsten
Archaeological and social theory, the political economy of agrarian states, settlement pattern analysis, regional and multiregional scales of analysis, and boundary processes, complex societies of Mexico, especially the southern highlands (Oaxaca)
Dr. Tristan Carter
East Mediterranean prehistory, the Aegean, Anatolia and northern Mesopotamia, Epi-Palaeolithic to Late Bronze Age, stone tools, production and consumption (raw material characterisation studies, lithic technology and use-wear)
(Bioarchaeology):
Dr. Tracy Prowse
Bioarchaeology, skeletal biology, palaeopathology, palaeonutrition, forensic anthropology, anthropological applications of stable isotope analysis, and Roman archaeology
Dr. Hendrik Poinar
Molecular evolutionary genetics, biological anthropology, ancient DNA, forensic, archaeological and paleontological remains
Dr. Megan Brickley
Bioarchaeology, forensics, human skeletal biology, paleopathology
3. Facilities – In the Department:
a) The Fisheries Archaeology Research Centre
b) Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Research on Archaeological Ceramics (LIRAC)
c) McMaster Ancient DNA centre
d) McMaster Archaeological XRF Lab (MAX Lab)
e) Outdoor Lab for Experimental Art and Archaeology
f) Archaeology Teaching Lab
g) Physical Anthropology Teaching Lab
4. Facilities - Outside the Department:
a) Gateway Data and GIS lab
b) Geographic and Information Systems Laboratory
b) Brockhouse Institute for Materials Research
c) McMaster Nuclear Reactor (MNR)
d) Research Group for Stable Isotopologues (MRSI)
5. Field School
a) Ontario Field school offered in the summer term. Contact burchme@mcmaster.ca for details