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Areas of Specialization:
Lithic technology, lithic provenance studies, landscape learning, lithic skill acquisition and enculturation, Palaeo-Eskimo culture, Thule Inuit culture, ethnographic analogy, traditional knowledge, climate change and northern heritage resource management, LiDAR scanning and digital site preservation, archaeo-geophysics
Current Research Projects:
“The Analytical Quandary of Chert Quarries: A Multi-Scalar Approach using GIS Modelling, Archaeo-Geophysics, Lithic Provenance, and Debitage Analysis to Understand Palaeo-Eskimo Lithic Technological Organization and Novice Skill on Southern Baffin Island.” Principal Investigator, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Insight Grant Program ($283,666 – 2017-2022)
“The Southampton Island Marine Ecosystem Project (SIMEP).” Co-Principal Investigator (with Drs. CJ Mundy and Jens Ehn, Centre for Earth Observation Science, University of Manitoba), Marine Environmental Observation Prediction and Response (MEOPAR), National Centres of Excellence Program, Polar Canada, Arctic Research Foundation ($399,000 – 2017-2020)
“The Southampton Island Marine Ecosystem Project (SIMEP).” Principal Investigator, Manitoba Centres for Research Excellence Program ($4,800 – 2017-2020)
“Preservation and Promotion of Canadian Northern Heritage Resources: A Non-Invasive/Non-Destructive Approach to Archaeological Research.” Canada Foundation for Innovation—John R. Evans Leaders Fund ($194,877), Manitoba Research and Innovation Fund ($194,877), Manitoba Heritage Grants Program ($7808)
Recently Graduated Students:
1. Larissa Harris (MA) 2017. Thesis: The White Earth Digital Tribal Museum: Creation of an Open-Access Online Museum Using 3D Images of Cultural Heritage Objects.
2. Dana Thacher (Hons. BA) 2016. Research paper: Applying GIS and Statistical Analysis to Assess the Correlation of Human Behaviour and Ephemeral Architectural Features among Palaeo-Eskimo Sites on Southern Baffin Island, Nunavut.
3. Jeffrey Stup (MA) 2015. Thesis: Modeling Population Mobility in Southern Baffin Island's Past Using GIS and Landscape Archaeology.
4. Deanna McAvoy (MA) 2014. Thesis: An Examination of the Pre-Dorset Caribou Hunters from the Deep Interior of Southern Baffin Island, NU, Canada.
5. Robert Beardsell (PhD) 2013. Dissertation: Mass and Attribute Analysis of the Quartz Lithic Assemblage from the Grandfather Quarry (HbMd-4) near Granville Lake, Northern Manitoba.
6. David Landry (MA) 2013. Thesis: The Organization of Late Dorset Lithic Technology at the LdFa-1 Site on Southern Baffin Island, Nunavut.
7. Anne Hamilton (MA) 2008. Thesis: Rocking the Continuum: A Geochemical Analysis of Palaeo-Eskimo Lithic Raw Material Selection Strategies at the LeDx-42 Site, Southern Baffin Island, Nunavut.
Current Students:
1. David Landry (PhD)
2. Mary Grace Golfo-Barcelona (PhD)
3. Elenore Hood (MA)
Post-Doctoral Fellows:
1. Dr. Rachel ten Bruggencate (PhD, University of Manitoba 2013)
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Recent Publications:
- Gamble, Julia A., and S. Brooke Milne (In Press) Using LEXT Laser Microscopy to Identify Enamel Surface Defects in Archaeological Caribou Dentition: A Pilot Study from Southern Baffin Island NU. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports
- Landry, David B., Ian Ferguson, S. Brooke Milne, Mulu Serzu, and Robert Park (In Press) Integrated Geophysical Techniques for the Archaeological Investigation of LbDt-1: A Palaeo-Inuit Quarry in the Interior of Southern Baffin Island, Nunavut. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory
- Park, Robert W., S. Brooke Milne, and Douglas R. Stenton (2017) Burin and Spall Use at an Inland Arctic Small Tool Tradition Site, Southern Baffin Island, Nunavut. Canadian Journal of Archaeology 41(1):63-78.
- ten Bruggencate, Rachel E., S. Brooke Milne, Mostafa Fayek, Robert W. Park, and Douglas R. Stenton (2017) Combining Chert Provenance and Least-Cost Pathway Analyses to Reconstruct Pre-Dorset and Dorset Mobility on Southern Baffin Island. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 14:651-661.
- Thacher, Dana, S. Brooke Milne, and Robert W. Park (2017) Applying GIS and Statistical Analysis to Assess the Correlation of Human Behaviour and Ephemeral Architectural Features among Palaeo-Eskimo Sites on Southern Baffin Island, Nunavut. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 14:21-30.
- Gamble, Julia, and S. Brooke Milne (2016) Explorations in LEXT Image and Profile Capture for Dental Enamel Surface Morphology. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 10:454-463.
- Landry, David B., S. Brooke Milne, Robert W. Park, Mostafa Fayek, and Douglas R. Stenton(2016) Manual Point Cloud Classification and Extraction for Hunter-Gatherer Feature Investigation: A Test Case from Two Low-Arctic Palaeo-Eskimo Sites Open Archaeology. DOI: 10.1515/opar-2016-0017
- ten Bruggencate, Rachel, Jeffrey Stup, S. Brooke Milne, Douglas R. Stenton, Robert W. Park, and Mostafa Fayek (2016) A Human-Centered GIS Approach to Modeling Mobility on Southern Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada. Journal of Field Archaeology 41(6):684-698.
- Milne, S. Brooke and Robert W. Park (2016) The Pre-Dorset Culture. The Oxford Handbook of the Prehistoric Arctic, eds. T.M. Friesen and O. Mason, pp. 693-712. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
- ten Bruggencate, Rachel, S. Brooke Milne, Mostafa Fayek, Robert W. Park, Douglas R. Stenton, and Anne C. Hamilton (2016) Characterizing Southern Baffin Island Chert: A Cautionary Tale for Provenance Research. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports DOI:10.1016/j.jasrep.2016.03.016
- ten Bruggencate, Rachel, S. Brooke Milne, Mostafa Fayek, Robert W. Park, and Douglas R. Stenton (2015) Characterization of chert artifacts and two newly identified chert quarries on southern Baffin Island. Lithic Technology 40(3):189-198.
- Landry, David B., Ian J. Ferguson, S. Brooke Milne, and Robert W. Park (2015) Combined Geophysical Approach in a Complex Arctic Archaeological Environment: A Case Study from the LdFa-1 Site, Southern Baffin Island, Nunavut. Archaeological Prospection 22:157–170.
- ten Bruggencate, Rachel, Mostafa Fayek, S. Brooke Milne, Robert W. Park, and Douglas R. Stenton (2014) Just a crush? Contamination of archaeological samples by different grinding media. Open Journal of Archaeometry DOI: 10.4081/arc.2014.5606
- • ten Bruggencate, Rachel, Mostafa Fayek, S. Brooke Milne, and Kevin Brownlee (2014) Characterizing Quartz Artifacts: A Case Study from Manitoba’s Northern Boreal Forest. Archaeometry 56(6):913-926.
- Milne, S. Brooke, Robert W. Park, and Douglas R. Stenton (2013) For Caribou, Chert, and Company: Assessing Mobility Among the Palaeo-Eskimos of Southern Baffin Island, Arctic Canada. In Mobility, Transition and Change in Prehistory and Antiquity. Proceedings of the GAO Conference at Hertford College, Oxford, UK, eds. P. R. Preston and K. Schorle, pp. 49-61. British Archaeological Reports, International Series. Archaeopress, Oxford.
- ten Bruggencate, Rachel, Mostafa Fayek, Kevin Brownlee, S. Brooke Milne, and Scott Hamilton (2013) A Combined Visual-Geochemical Approach to Establishing Provenance for Pegmatite Quartz Artifacts. Journal of Archaeological Science 40(6):2702-2712.
- Milne, S. Brooke, Robert W. Park, and Douglas R. Stenton (2012) Dorset culture land use strategies and the case of southern Baffin Island. Canadian Journal of Archaeology 36(2):405-426.
- Milne, S. Brooke (2012) Lithic Raw Material Availability and Palaeo-Eskimo Novice Flintknapping. In Archaeology and Apprenticeship: Body Knowledge, Identity, and Communities of Practice, ed. W. Weindrich, pp. 119-144. The University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
Published Book Reviews:
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Milne, S. Brooke (2013) Review of “Technology and Tradition in the Eastern Arctic, 2500 BC - AD 1200: A Dynamic Technological Investigation of Lithic Inventories in the Paleo-Eskimo Traditions.” Canadian Journal of Archaeology 37:349-353.
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Other Outputs:
Recent Conference Presentations:
- Landry, David B., S. Brooke Milne, Robert W. Park, Ian J. Ferguson, and Mostafa Fayek (2017) Quarries, Caribou, and Seasonal Inland Travels: Understanding Pre-Dorset and Dorset Culture Adaptations on Southern Baffin Island using Remote Sensing and Lithic Technology. Presented at the IASC Arctic Science Summit Week meetings, April 4 – 7, Prague, Czech Republic.
ten Bruggencate, Rachel E., S. Brooke Milne, Mostafa Fayek, Robert W. Park, and Douglas R. Stenton (2017) Establishing provenance for chert from southern Baffin Island: a multi-scalar approach. Presented at the Society for American Archaeology annual meeting, Mar 29 – Apr 2, Vancouver, BC.
- Landry, David B., Ian J. Ferguson, S. Brooke Milne, Mulu Serzu, and Robert W. Park (2016) In-Phase and Quardrature Electromagnetic Mapping of Arctic Archaeological Sites in Southern Baffin Island, Canada. Poster presented at the 23rd Electromagnetic Induction in the Earth Workshop, Chiang Mai, Thailand, August 14 – 20.
- Milne, S. Brooke, and Landry, David (2016) Shedding New Light on Arctic Archaeological Sites Through the use of HDS and Point Cloud Feature Extraction and Enhancement. Paper presented at the Hexagon Leica Geosystems Industry Conference in Anaheim, CA, June 13 – 16.
- ten Bruggencate, Rachel, S. Brooke Milne, Robert W. Park, Douglas R. Stenton, and Mostafa Fayek (2016) Open Source GIS Modelling of Mobility Networks on Southern Baffin Island. Paper presented at the Canadian Archaeological Association Annual Meetings, Whitehorse, Yk, May 4-7.
- ten Bruggencate, Rachel, S. Brooke Milne, Mostafa Fayek, Robert W. Park, and Douglas R. Stenton (2016) Connecting the Dots: Reconstructing Palaeo-Inuit Pathways on Southern Baffin Island Using Chert Geochemistry and Least-Cost Pathway Analysis. Paper presented at the Canadian Archaeological Association Annual Meetings, Whitehorse, Yk, May 4-7.
- Landry, David, S. Brooke Milne, Ian Ferguson, Mulu Serzu, Robert W. Park, Douglas R. Stenton, and Mostafa Fayek (2016) Mapping and Monitoring Arctic Archaeological Site Subsidence due to Permafrost Thaw and Erosion: Testing the Utility of using Long-Term Remote Sensing on Inland and Coastal Archaeological Sites on Baffin Island. Paper presented at the Canadian Archaeological Association Annual Meetings, Whitehorse, Yk, May 4-7.
- Fayek, Mostafa, S. Brooke Milne, Ryan Sharpe, Rachel ten Bruggencate, Ian Burron, Lawrence M. Anovitz (2016) Obsidian Hydration Dating Using SIMS and the LEXT Laser-Microscope. Paper presented at the 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Orlando, FL April 6 – 10.
- Gamble, Julia, and S. Brooke Milne (2016) Explorations in LEXT Image and Profile Capture for Dental Enamel Surface Morphology. Paper presented at the 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Orlando, FL April 6 – 10.
- Landry, David B., S. Brooke Milne, Ian J. Ferguson, Mulu Serzu, Robert W. Park, Douglas R. Stenton, and Mostafa Fayek (2015) Using Non-Invasive Remote Sensing Technologies to Document and Monitor Surface and Subsurface Changes to Frozen Arctic Archaeological Sites: A Case Study from Southern Baffin Island, NU. Paper presented at the ArcticNet Annual Scientific Meetings in Vancouver, BC, December 7 – 11.
- ten Bruggencate, Rachel E., S. Brooke Milne, Mostafa Fayek, Robert W. Park, and Douglas R. Stenton (2015) Palaeo-Eskimo Exploitation of Inland Chert Quarries on Southern Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada. Paper presented at the Society for American Archaeology Annual Meetings in San Francisco, CA, April 15 – 19.
- Park, R. W., S. Brooke Milne, Mostafa Fayek, Robert W. Park, Douglas R. Stenton, Rachel ten Bruggencate, and David B. Landry (2014) Chert Toolstone Availability in the Interior of Southern Baffin Island: New Insights from Two Recently Identified Source Locations. Paper presented at the Canadian Archaeological Association Annual Meetings in London, ON. May 14 – 18.
- ten Bruggencate, Rachel E., S. Brooke Milne, Mostafa Fayek, Robert W. Park, and Douglas R. Stenton (2014) Characterizing Chert from Southern Baffin Island: Bulk vs. Microbeam Mass Spectrometry. Paper presented at the Canadian Archaeological Association Annual Meetings in London, ON. May 14 – 18.
- McAvoy, Deanna G., S. Brooke Milne, Robert W. Park, and Douglas R. Stenton (2014) The Missing Terrestrial Component: An Examination of Pre-Dorset Caribou Hunters from the Interior of Baffin Island, Nunavut. Paper presented at the Canadian Archaeological Association Annual Meetings in London, ON. May 14 – 18.
- Landry, David B., S. Brooke Milne, Robert W. Park, Douglas R. Stenton, and Mostafa Fayek (2014) 3D LiDAR Scanning Technology and its Application in Arctic Archaeological Research: A Test Case from Inland Southern Baffin Island, NU. Paper presented at the Canadian Archaeological Association Annual Meetings in London, ON. May 14 – 18.
- McAvoy, Deanna G., S. Brooke Milne, Robert W. Park, and Douglas R. Stenton (2014) The Missing Terrestrial Component: An Examination of Pre-Dorset Caribou Hunters from the Interior of Baffin Island, Nunavut. Paper presented at the 39th Annual 39th Annual Archaeological Society of Alberta Conference, Bodo, AB May 9 – 11.
- Milne, S. Brooke, Robert, W. Park, Douglas R. Stenton, and Mostafa Fayek, and Rachel E. ten Bruggencate (2014) Novice Flint Knapping, Seasonal Mobility, and Palaeo-Eskimo Lithic Raw Material Acquisition in the Interior of Southern Baffin Island, NU. Paper presented at the Society for American Archaeology Annual Meetings in Austin, Texas. April 23 – 27.
- Milne, S. Brooke, Robert W. Park, Douglas Stenton, Mostafa Fayek, and David Landry (2013) Toolstone Availability near Frobisher Bay, NU and its Implications for Palaeo-Eskimo Lithic Technological Organization. Paper presented at the Canadian Archaeological Association Annual meetings in Whistler, BC May 15 – 19.
- Milne, S. Brooke, Robert W. Park, Douglas Stenton, Mostafa Fayek, and Rachel ten Bruggencate (2012) Sourcing the Stone: A Geochemical Analysis of Palaeo-Eskimo Technological Organization on Southern Baffin Island, Nunavut. Paper presented at the Inuit Studies Conference, Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC, October 24-28.
- Milne, S. Brooke, Rachel ten Bruggencate, Robert W. Park, and Mostafa Fayek (2012) Chert Sourcing and Palaeo-Eskimo Lithic Raw Material Use in the Interior of Southern Baffin Island, Arctic Canada. Paper presented at the Society for American Archaeology Annual Meetings in Memphis, Tennessee April 18 – 22.
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