Archaeologists Colonizing Canada: The Effects of Unquestioned Categories

The labelling and categorization of archaeological sites have consequences for the interpretation and subsequent research completed. As such, we as archaeologists must always be vigilant regarding the unintended consequences of labels we attach, or choose to omit, from official site information. These problems become compounded when governmental control codifies existing archaeological conventions and renders them rigid and difficult to change. Using the current archaeological registration database information for Brant County, Ontario, Canada, this paper demonstrates how imaginary pasts are created through archaeological convention and governmental codification and the consequences of these uncontested actions.     

Code of Practice: The British Archaeologists And Developers Liaison Group Great Britain

Abstract

The Fort Qu'Appelle reburial controversy, reported in the Journal of Field Archaeology (Spurling and Walker 1987), occasioned comment on the role that the provincial professional organization should play in such crises. The author provides an account of the conflict from the viewpoint of the Saskatchewan Association of Professional Archaeologists.     

Anthropology of women: The natural history stage

Carolyn J. Matthiasson, ed. Many Sisters: Women in Cross‐Cultural Perspective. New York: The Free Press, 1974. xxi + 433 pp. Illustrations, maps, figures, bibliography, and index. $15.00

Yolanda Murphy and Robert F. Murphy. Women of the Forest. New York: Columbia University Press, 1974. xii + 236 pp. Maps, bibliography, and index. $10.00 (cloth); $3.45 (paper).