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This photo, taken by Physical Anthropologist, Dr. Tracy Prowse shows some of the Roman period graves excavated at the site of Vagnari, Italy. Dr. Prowse runs a summer bioarchaeological field school at this site. Dr. Prowse's research explores diet and health in past populations, using palaeopathological and isotopic analyses of human bones and teeth. |
| Kate Mossman, a PhD student in Cultural Anthropology captured this photograph of a parade during her field research in Dakar, Senegal. Kate's research examines explores the partnership between international and local NGOs, and their aspirations for the future of Senegal. |
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An undergraduate student learns how to map an archaeological site using a theodolite during the Archaeological Field School at Cootes Paradies in the Royal Botanical Gardens on the shore of Lake Ontario. Photo by Erin Holborn |
| PhD student Emily Cowall took this photograph of Kellie Kilapuk, Evee Anilnilak and Susa Qapik during her field research Eastern Arctic community of Pangnirtung, Nunavut. Emily's research examines the repatriation of historic photographs to the Inuit of Pangnirtung who were sent to Hamilton, Mountain Tuberculosis Sanatorium between 1954-1964 |
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A group of undergraduate volunteer students work in the archaeological wet lab. Many of the volunteer students have used their experience to obtain summer jobs in archaeology, working in various cultural resource management firms across the province. Photo by Meghan Burchell |
| Dr. Ellen Badone, the Director of the Graduate Programme took this photograph of Provencal costumes at the annual festival of Sainte Marie Jacobe, in Les Sainte-Maries-de-la-Mer, France. Dr. Badone's current research concerns the anthropology of pilgrimage, and the relationships between pilgrimage and tourism. Dr. Badone has researched pilgrimage at a Marian apparition shrine in Brittany and at Les Saintes Maries de la Mer in southern France, a shrine which is particularly important for Roma pilgrims. |
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Dr. Aubrey Cannon's archaeological research investigates the history of settlement in the traditional territory of the Heiltsuk in the central coast of British Columbia. This photo shows a series of sediment cores from a shell midden site dating from 6000-1000 years BP. The different colours in the cores correspond to different occupation and activity phases at the site. |
| Graduate students prepare specimens for Ancient DNA analysis in the clean room facilities at the McMaster Ancient DNA Centre. Photo by Melanie Kuch |
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An undergraduate student learns how to make stone tools at the Outdoor Lab for Experimental Art and Archaeology. As part of the Archaeological Field School, students have the opportunity to learn the techniques of flint knapping using locally collected Onoandaga chert sources. Photo by: Meghan Burchell |
| This photo shows a family of weavers working in Boudha, Nepal. The director of the Undergraduate Program, Dr. Tina Moffatt, uses a biocultural and political-economic approach to explore child health and nutrition and environmental health as it pertains to urban ecosystems. Photo by: Tom O'Neill |
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Former PhD student Linda Scarangella, took this photograph during her fieldwork on representation and performance of Aboriginal culture and identity as a form of social and political action in spaces of spectacle and ‘entertainment,’ The photo shows some of the participants in the 2005 Buffalo Bill Day parade in Sheridan, Wyoming. |
| A partially reconstructed ceramic pot from the Thorold Site near Niagara Falls, Ontario. This Neutral Iroquoian village was occupied during the historic era ca. AD 1620-1630. |
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