People at the Archaeology Centre

The Archaeology Centre includes teaching faculty from the University of Toronto and curators from the Royal Ontaio Museum along with associates from the community and graduate students pursuing training in archaeology.

The Director
Director of The Archaeology Centre
Michael Chazan (Anthropology - St. George)
Paleolithic archaeology and lithic analysis. Field research
at Wonderwerk Cave, South Africa and Wadi Mataha, Jordan.
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Teaching Faculty and Curators

Charly Bank (Geology - St. George)
Geophysical methods and archaeology,
ground penetrating rader and magnetometry
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Ted Banning (Anthropology - St. George)
Household archaeology in the Neolithic of Jordan,
survey methods. Field research site in the Wadi Ziqlab,
Jordan.
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Gary Coupland (Anthropology - St. George)
West Coast, complex hunter-gatherers, household archaeology
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Gary Crawford (Anthropology - UTM)
The origins of agriculture in East Asia and Eastern
North America and paleoethnobotany. Field research in Japan
and China.
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Joe Desloges (Geography - St. George)
Geoarchaeology - the influence of rivers, glaciers and humans
on landform development in the northern hemisphere.
Fieldwork in Ontario.
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Genevieve Dewar (Anthropology - St. George)
Subsistence strategies, taphonomy, stable isotope analysis,
marine reservoir correction (Delta R), human evolution,
modern human behaviour. Fieldwork in South Africa and
Ontario.
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Sarah Finkelstein (Geography - St. George)
Paleoecology. Field research in the Canadian Arctic and Ontario.
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Max Friesen (Anthropology - St. George)
Hunter-gatherer archaeology, community archaeology,
zooarchaeology. Fieldwork in the Arctic.
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Timothy Harrison (Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations)
The archaeology of complex societies in the Levant. Field research
at Madaba, Jordan and Tayinat, Turkey.
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Justin Jennings (Royal Ontario Musuem)
Andean complex societies and settlement pattern analysis.
Field research in the Cotahuasi Valley, Peru
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Carl Knappett (Art Department - St. George)
Material culture theory, cermic analyis. Fieldwork in
Crete.
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Heather Miller (Anthropology - UTM)
Ancient technology and the Indus Valley. Director of the
Caravanserai Network Project, Pakistan.
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Dimitri Nakassis (Classics - St. George)
Mycenaean archaeology, scripts of the Aegean Bronze
Age, and survey methods.
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Susan Pfeiffer (Anthropology - St. George)
Biological Anthropology, Eastern North America,
South Africa
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Chen Shen (Royal Ontario Musuem)
Paleolithic archaeology and use wear analysis.
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David Smith (Anthropology - UTM)
Iroquois archaeology and ceramic analysis
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Edward Swenson (Anthropology - St. George)
Andean prehistory and Moche Civilization. Archaeology
of ritual and ideology, spatial and architectural analysis.
Field research in the Jequetepeque Valley, Peru.
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Mary-Ann Pouls Wegner (Near and Middle Eastern Civlizations)
New Kingdom Egypt, religious practice, cultural interaction.
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Alice Yao (Anthropology - UTM)
Dian heartland project, field work in southern China
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