• The Influence of Feng Shui on Cemetery Design: A Spatial Analysis of the Chinese Cemetery in Victoria, BC 

  Dagg, Lyndsay (2022-07-18)

  The Chinese Cemetery at Harling Point in Victoria, BC is the oldest Chinese Cemetery in Canada and has been recognized as a National Historic Site since 1994. However, despite the cemetery’s huge cultural and historic ...
• Charitable and Community Food Access in Greater Victoria: Understanding the Lived Experience of Mothers and Caregivers 

  Strom Trudel, Katherine (2022-07-18)

  Food insecurity affects 9.6% of Canadians, meaning that individuals and families are unable to access or consume a sufficient or adequate diet quality in socially acceptable ways. Previous research has shown that in Canada, ...
• Middle Helladic Children’s Burials: Challenges Associated with Reconstructing Lived Experiences from Mortuary Contexts 

  Martin-Damman, Sally (2022-07-18)

  While the sub-field of childhood archaeology continues to grow and make progress, the children of Greece during the Middle Helladic period (2,100-1,600 B.C.) remain understudied. The goal of this research was to use mortuary ...
• A search for meaningful place: Lifestyle migrations and mobilities in Tofino, British Columbia 

  Mara, Gabriel (2022-07-18)

  This paper focuses on the social phenomenon of lifestyle migration in connection to individuals living in Tofino, British Columbia. Based on ethnographic fieldwork carried out in Tofino, this paper asks the question of how ...
• Exploring Intertidal Stone Elements at ȾEL ̧IȽĆE/ c̓əl̓íɫč 

  Hooton, Rachel (2022-07-18)

  W̱SÁNEĆ and lək̓ʷəŋən First Nations territories span throughout the southern part of Vancouver Island, where their connection to space and place has never diminished. Significant places throughout the landscape of their ...
• Weaving threads and painting bodies: Huasteca women, clothing, and embodiment during the Late Classic to Postclassic 

  Sanchez Balderas, Adriana Fabiola (2021-09-27)

  This is an emerging analysis of the use of a cape type garment, the dhayemlaab in the Teenek language, also known as the quexquemitl in Nahuatl language, among modern Huasteca women as an analogy to an illustrative group ...
• Handheld Mobile LiDAR: Investigating its Viability as a Mapping Tool for Improving the Archaeological Mapping Process 

  Holshuijsen, Folkert (2021-06-13)

  Archaeological maps are central to the archaeological process; however, issues regarding their perception and representation are undertheorized and have direct effects on the archaeological outcomes. Mapping technologies ...
• The Influence of Developmental Parameters on Body Size and Composition: An Analysis of Sex Differences in Life History Trajectories 

  Morpak, Danika (2021-06-13)

  Previous research has indicated that markers of early life development (birth weight, age at first menstruation (menarche), and relative leg length) are predictors of adult body size and composition (adiposity and lean ...
• Museums in British Columbia During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Continuing to Engage the Public Online 

  Gribbon, Eva (2021-06-13)

  The COVID-19 pandemic forced British Columbia museums to close to the public for a period of time in 2020. As traditional museum engagement takes place in person at museums, many B.C. museums transferred some engagement ...
• Connecting Open Science and Archaeology: The University of Victoria Zooarchaeology Lab Comparative Collection: An Essential Cultural and Ecological Resource 

  McKenzie, Kathryn (2021-05-25)

  Comparative collections are fundamentally important for the zooarchaeological identification of archaeological animal remains. The University of Victoria Zooarchaeology Lab has an extensive regional skeletal reference ...
• Gaelic Sports, Home and Away: Building Community and Identity through Sport 

  Nagy, Adam (2021-05-25)

  This research is concerned with Gaelic sports participation in Victoria BC. Through interviews with members of the local Gaelic sports club, the Van Isle Rovers, this research examines the motivations for playing these ...
• Shape in the Proximal Femoral Metaphyseal Region During Growth: Age or Activity Related Change? 

  Rutherford, Isabelle (2021-05-25)

  The metaphyseal regions of long bones have been largely overlooked by biological anthropologists, despite these regions being highly biologically active during growth and development. Further, while the levels of plasticity ...
• Shared Landscapes: A Biosocial Analysis for Primate Conservation 

  Warshawski, Lindsey (2021-05-25)

  Currently, 66% of primate species are facing threats of extinction, and 74% are experiencing declining populations. Many primate populations inhabit increasingly anthropogenic environments. Therefore, effects such as habitat ...
• Immature pelvic growth and obesity: A biocultural analysis of risks associated with adolescent pregnancy in the U.S. 

  Ronayne, Emma (2020-10-30)

  Adolescent pregnancy in women aged 10-19 years is associated with higher rates of adverse outcomes for both the mother and infant than adult pregnancy. Health conditions and immaturities such as obesity and immature pelvic ...
• Social Debitage: An archaeological and social exploration of the patterns of improper cigarette butt disposal on a university campus 

  Tottman, Walker (2020-08-28)

  Around the globe, trillions of cigarettes are improperly discarded into the environment every year. As the world’s most frequently littered item, and made with non-biodegradable materials and toxic chemicals, cigarette ...
• Natural Disasters, Intimate Partner Violence, and Reproductive Harm: A Biocultural Analysis of Hurricane Katrina 

  Serviss, Carden (2020-08-28)

  Natural disasters can have serious impacts on people’s reproductive lives, which with climate change have become more evident. To date, research has focused on the impacts of natural disasters on fertility rates, access ...
• The Houses of Gournia: An Analysis of the Late Minoan IB Period Residences 

  Lehmann, Kaylyn (2020-08-28)

  The way people build and structure the spaces around them are connected to their ways of knowing the world. While the so-called palaces of the Minoans have been studied at great length, their houses have not had the same ...
• Sexual division of labour in early agricultural Central Europe: an argument against androcentric bias in bioarchaeology 

  Craig, Caitlin (2020-08-28)

  A common assumption in anthropology is that agricultural intensification involves increasing male labour contributions. This assumption is affected by substantial androcentric bias, and bioarchaeological investigations ...
• Osteobiography of an Ancient Nuu-chah-nulth Wool Dog: Investigating the Life and Death of a Domestic Dog from Tseshaht Territory in Barkley Sound 

  Dierks, Katie (2020-08-28)

  The domestication of dogs is a global phenomenon that holds specific cultural importance to Indigenous peoples along the Northwest Coast. The woolly dog, a precontact breed of Indigenous dog that was valued for its fur to ...
• Small Bones and Short Lives: Evidence of Environmental Stress from Juvenile Skeletal Remains in Roman Barcino 

  Michaluk, Kailer Stephen (2019-07-24)

  Children have received far less attention than adults in bioarchaeology as it has been believed that little relevant information can be obtained through their study. This is problematic due to the fact that not only are ...

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