Schedule
The Society does not hold regular meetings during the months of June, July and August.
Monthly meetings are usually held at 7:30pm on the fourth Tuesday of the month (note: not the last Tuesday of the month; on rare occasions there are five). Our usual meeting place is the Auditorium of the Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History (located at 1747 Summer St., Halifax), near the south entrance on the lower level, just off the parking lot.
The Society holds special events throughout the year in addition to its popular monthly lecture series, check back here often for details!
2008 - 2009 Monthly Lecture Series
7:30 pm, fourth Tuesday of the month
Auditorium, NS Museum of Natural History
1747 Summer Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia
October 28, 2008
Toward an Embracive Archaeology: Surface survey and sub-surface testing with the Pictou Landing First Nation on Maligomish (Indian Island), Pictou County.
Presented by Michelle Lelièvre
This lecture will describe a doctoral research project that has been undertaken with the Pictou Landing First Nation. The project uses archaeological, ethnographic and ethnohistorical methodologies to understand changes in Mi'kmaw society in the post-contact period. The lecture's focus will be the archaeological fieldwork that was conducted in 2007 and 2008 on Maligomish, a small island in Merigomish Harbour that is part of the Pictou Landiing First Nation reserve.
Michelle Lelièvre is currently a PhD candidate in anthropology at the University of Chicago. She has a bachelors degree in anthropology and classical archaeology from McGill University and a masters in archaeology from the University of Cambridge. In addition to her doctoral research, Michelle has also worked with the Confederacy of Mainland Mi’kmaq’s Debert-Belmont Site Delineation Project for the past three field seasons.
November 25, 2008
Looking at Imperial Properties in Southern Italy
Presented by Myles McCallum, Assistant Professor of Classics
Saint Mary's University
Archaeological investigation of Roman period sites in Italy has the potential to greatly increase our knowledge of various aspects of Roman life previously unknown or poorly understood. In particular, the lifestyles of Rome’s rural poor, including peasant farmers, rural slaves, and ‘employees’ of the imperial household are almost entirely lacking in documentary sources. Since 2004, fieldwork on the hill of San Felice in Puglia (southeastern Italy) has sought to understand the nature of imperial landholdings in Roman Puglia, the status of those employed on such holdings, and the economic and social activities in which these individuals were engaged. This has involved geophysical prospection, field survey, excavation, environmental archaeology, and artifacts analysis.
Myles McCallum has worked as a Roman archaeologist in Italy for the past 13 years at Rome, Pompeii, and sites in Puglia, Tuscany, Lazio, and Basilicata. In general, he has worked on sites of the Roman imperial period examining issues related to social class, economic and commercial activities, and social networks. Myles has published on pottery production at Pompeii, commercial activity in the Tiber Valley north of Rome, excavations at Pompeii and in Puglia, and on artifacts from Roman Cortona (Tuscany) and Rome. He is currently working on the publication of the finds from the Porta Stabia Research Project at Pompeii, a preliminary report for San Felice, and a book on Roman commerce within Italy during the imperial period.
Jan. 27, 2009
Topic TBA
Presented By: Dr. Matthew Betts, Museum of Civilization
Feb. 24, 2009
Topic TBA
Presented By: Rob Ferguson
Mar. 24, 2009
The Hawthorne Farm Site: Archaeological Mitigation of an Early-Nineteenth Century Rural Site
Presented by Darryl Kelman, CRM Group
A discussion of archaeological excavations carried out at the Hawthorne Farm Site, a registered archaeological site in Gays River, Nova Scotia. Excavation, conducted in the spring of 2008, was required due to a proposed mine expansion that was to impact the site. The lecture will present the results of the archaeological work which will include placing the Hawthorne Farm Site in its historical context, an interpretation of the various features excavated and an analysis of the recovered artifacts.
Darryl Kelman is an archaeologist with Cultural Resource Management (CRM) Group Ltd, an archaeological consulting firm based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Educated at the University of Waterloo and the University of St. Andrews, Darryl has been a professional archaeologist since 2001.
Apr. 28, 2009
TBA
May 26, 2009
TBA
Presented By: Jonathan Fowler/Brenda Dunn
For more information contact the Nova Scotia Archaeology Society at (902) 446-0473 or email rhjs74@netscape.net.
