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Publications

2017

Park, R.W., S.B. Milne, D.R. Stenton. Burin and Spall Use at an Inland Arctic Small Tool Tradition Site, Southern Baffin Island, Nunavut. Canadian Journal of Archaeology (In press for July 2017, Vol. 1).

2016

Gamble, J., S.B. Milne. Explorations in LEXT Image and Profile Capture for Dental Enamel Surface Morphology. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2016.11004

Landry, D.B., Milne, S.B., Park, R.W., Ferguson, I.J., Fayek, M. Manual Point Cloud Classification and Extraction for Hunter-Gatherer Feature Investigation: A Test Case from Two Low Arctic Palaeo-Inuit Sites. Open Archaeology 2: 232-242. DOI: 10.1515/opar-2016-0017

ten Bruggencate, R.E., J.P. Stup, S.B Milne, D.R. Stenton, R.W. Park, M Fayek, A Human-centered GIS approach to modeling human mobility on southern Baffin Island, NU, Canada. Journal of Field Archaeology DOI:10.1080/00934690.2016.1234897.

Milne, S.B. and R.W. Park. Pre-Dorset Culture. The Pre-Dorset Culture. In The Oxford Handbook of Arctic Archaeology eds by T. Max Friesen and Owen Mason. Oxford University Press, Oxford. DOI:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199766956.013.39

ten Bruggencate, R.E., SB Milne, M Fayek, R.W. Park, D.R. Stenton, A.C. Hamilton, Characterizing southern Baffin Island chert: A cautionary tale for provenance research. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. DOI:10.1016/j.jasrep.2016.03.016

2015

ten Bruggencate, R.E., S.B. Milne, M. Fayek, R.W. Park, and D.R. Stenton. Characterization of Chert Artifacts from Two Newly Identified Chert Quarries on Southern Baffin Island. Lithic Technology 40(3):189-198.

Landry, D.B., Ferguson, I.J., Milne, S.B., Park, R.W. Combined Geophysical Approach in a Complex Arctic Archaeological Environment: A Case Study from LdFa-1, Southern Baffin Island, Nunavut. Archaeological Prospection 22:157-170.

Stup, J.P. Modelling Population Mobility in Southern Baffin Island's Past Using GIS and Landscape Archaeology. Master's Thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB.

2014 

McAvoy, D.G. An Examination of the Pre-Dorset Caribou Hunters from the Deep Interior of Southern Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada. Master’s Thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB.

Milne, S.B. Chert Sourcing and Palaeo-Eskimo Stone Tool Technology. Submitted to Government of Nunavut, Department of Culture and Heritage, Nunavut Archaeological Permit No. 2013-02A. Copies available through the Government of Nunavut Department of Culture and Heritage.

ten Bruggencate, R.E., Milne, S.B., Fayek, M., Park, R.W., Stenton, D. Just a crush?: Contamination of archaeological samples by different grinding media. Open Journal of Archaeometry 2(2):134-138. DOI: 10.4081/arc.2014.5606

ten Bruggencate, R.E., M. Fayek, S.B. Milne, K. Brownlee. Characterizing Quartz Artifacts: A Case Study from Manitoba's Northern Boreal Forest. Archaeometry 56(6):913-926.

2013

Landry, D.B. The organization of late Dorset lithic technology at the LdFa-1 site in southern Baffin Island, Nunavut. Master's Thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB. 

Milne, S.B. Review of "Technology and Tradition in the Eastern Arctic, 2500 BC - AD 1200: A Dynamic Technological Investigation of Lithic Inventories in the Paleo-Eskimo Tradition." Canadian Journal of Archaeology 37:349-353.

Milne, S.B., Park, R.W., Stenton, D. R. For Caribou, Chert, and Company: Understanding Mobility Among the Palaeo-Eskimos of Baffin Island, Arctic Canada. In Mobility, Transition, and Change in Prehistory and Classical Antiquity: Proceedings of the Graduate Archaeology Organisation Conference on the Fourth and Fifth of April 2008 at Hertford College, Oxford, U.K. edited by Paul R. Preston and Katia Schörle, pp. 49-61. BAR International Series No. 2534 British Archaeological Reports, Oxford.

ten Bruggencate, R.E., M. Fayek, K. Brownlee, S.B. Milne, S. Hamilton. A Combined Visual-Geochemical Approach to Establishing Provenance for Pegmatite Quartz Artifacts. Journal of Archaeological Science 40(6):2702-2712.

2012

Milne, S.B., Park, R.W., Stenton, D. R. Dorset culture land use strategies and the case of inland southern Baffin Island. Canadian Journal of Archaeology/Journal Canadien D'Archéologie 36(2):267-288.

Milne, S.B. 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 AZ.

2011

Milne, S.B., Park, R.W., Hamilton, A.C., Fayek, M. Chert Sourcing and Palaeo-Eskimo Raw Material Use in the Interior of Southern Baffin Island, Arctic Canada. Canadian Journal of Archaeology/Journal Canadien D'Archéologie 35:117-142.

Milne, S.B. Landscape Learning and Lithic Technology: Seasonal Mobility, Enculturation, and Tool Apprenticeship among the Early Palaeo-Eskimos. In Structured Worlds: The Archaeology of Hunter-Gatherer Thought and Action, ed. A. Cannon, pp. 95-115. Equinox Publishing.

2009

Milne, S.B. Debitage Sample Size and Its Implications for Understanding Lithic Assemblage Variability. Canadian Journal of Archaeology 33(1):40-64.

Milne, S.B., A.C. Hamilton, M.Fayek. Combining Visual and Geochemical Analyses to Source Chert on Southern Baffin Island, Arctic Canada. Geoarchaeology 24(4):429-449.

 

Conference Presentations

2017

Landry, D.B., S.B. Milne, R.W. Park, I.J. Ferguson, R. ten Bruggencate, M. Fayek, M. Serzu. Quarries, caribou, and seasonal inland travels: understanding Pre-Dorset and Dorset culture adaptations on southern Baffin Island, Nunavut. Paper presented at the Arctic Science Summit Meeting 2017, April 4-7, Prague, Czech Republic.

ten Bruggencate, R.E., S.B. Milne, M Fayek, R.W. Park, D.R. Stenton. Establishing provenance for chert from southern Baffin Island: a multi-scalar approach. Paper presented at the 82nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Mar 29-Apr 2, Vancouver, BC.

2016

Fayek, M., S.B. Milne, R. Sharpe, R.E. ten Bruggencate, I. Burron, L.M. Anovitz. Obsidian hydration dating using SIMS and LEXT laser-microscope. Paper presented at the 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, April 6-10, Orlando, FL.

Gamble, J., and S.B. Milne. 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, April 6-10, Orlando, FL.

Landry, D.B., I.J. Ferguson, S.B. Milne, M. Serzu, R. W. Park. In-phase and quadrature electromagnetic mapping of arctic archaeological sites in southern Baffin Island, Canada. Poster presented at the 23rd Electromagnetic Induction in the Earth Workshop, August 14-20, Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Milne, S.B., D. Landry. Shedding new light on arctic archaeological sites through the use of HDS and point cloud feature extraction and enhancement. Paper presented at the Hexagon Lecia Geosystem Industry Conference, June 13-16, Anaheim, CA. (Invited Podium Paper).

Landry, D.B., S.B. Milne, I. Ferguson, M. Serzu, R.W. Park, D. Stenton, M. Fayek. Mapping and monitoring Arctic archaeological site subsidence due to permafrost thaw and erosion: Long-term remote sensing testing on inland and coastal Baffin Island sites. Paper presented at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Archaeological Association, May 4-8, Whitehorse, YT.

ten Bruggencate, R.E., S.B. Milne, M. Fayek, R.W. Park, D.W. Stenton. Connecting the dots: reconstructing pathways on southern Baffin Island using chert geochemistry and least-cost pathway analysis. Paper presented at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Archaeological Association, May 4-8, Whitehorse, YT.

ten Bruggencate, R.E. S.B. Milne, R.W. Park, D. Stenton, M. Fayek. Open-source GIS modeling of mobility networks on southern Baffin Island. Paper presented at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Archaeological Association, May 4-8, Whitehorse, YT.

2015

Landry, D.B., S.B. Milne, I.J. Ferguson, M. Serzu, R.W. Park, D.R. Stenton, M. Fayek. 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, December 7-11, Vancouver, BC. 

ten Bruggencate, R.E., Milne, S.B., Fayek, M., Park, R., Stenton, D. Palaeo-Eskimo exploitation of inland chert quarries on southern Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada. Paper presented at the 80th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, April 15-19, San Francisco, CA.

2014

Landry, D.B., Milne, S.B., Fayek, M., Park, R.W., Stenton, D. 3D LiDAR scanning technology and its application in arctic archaeological research: a test case from inland Southern Baffin Island, NU. Paper presented at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Archaeological Association, May 14-18, London, ON.

Park, R., Milne, S.B., Fayek, M., Stenton, D., ten Bruggencate, R.E., Landry, D. Chert toolstone availability in the interior of southern Baffin Island: New insights from two recently identified source locations. Paper presented at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Archaeological Association, May 14-18, London, ON.

ten Bruggencate, R.E., Milne, S.B., Fayek, M., Park, R., Stenton, D. Characterizing chert from southern Baffin Island: Bulk vs. microbeam mass spectrometry. Paper presented at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Archaeological Association, May 14-18, London, ON.

2013

Milne, S.B., R.W. Park, D. Stenton, M. Fayek, D. Landry. Toolstone availability near Frobisher Bay, NU and its implications for Palaeo-Eskimo lithic technological organization. Paper presented at the Canadian Archaeological Association Annual meetings, May 15-19, Whistler, BC.

Landry, D.B. and S.B. Milne. Late Dorset technological organization and mobility: a case study from the interior of southern Baffin Island. Paper presented at the 46th Annual Chacmool Conference, "Trading Spaces: The Archaeology of Interaction, Trade, and Migration," University of Calgary, November 7-9, Calgary, AB.

Landry, D.B. and S.B. Milne. A multi-scalar analysis of Late Dorset lithic technological organization on southern Baffin Island. Paper presented at the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology conference, "Scalar Inquiries in Archaeology," Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA, April 26-27, Los Angeles, CA.

2012

Milne, S.B., ten Bruggencate, R.E., Park, R.W., Stenton, D., Fayek, M. Sourcing the stone: A geochemical analysis of Palaeo-Eskimo technological organization on southern Baffin Island, Nunavut. Presentation given at the 2012 Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Inuit Studies Conference, October 24-28, Washington, D.C.

Milne, S.B., ten Bruggencate, R.E., Park, R.W., Fayek, M. Chert sourcing and Palaeo-Eskimo lithic raw material use in the interior of southern Baffin Island, arctic Canada. Presentation given at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, April 18-22, Memphis, TN.