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--=====================_3461734==.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <html> <body> The following lecture, at a meeting of the Nova Scotia Archaeological Society, would interest some on this list:<br><br> <x-tab> </x-tab>Cheers,<br> <br> <x-tab> </x-tab>Patricia L. Chalmers<br> <x-tab> </x-tab>Halifax<br> <br> <b>The Cultural Landscape of Grand Pre: Archaeology, Earth Sciences and UNESCO<br> </b>Presented by: Katie Cottreau-Robins, NSM, and Rob Ferguson, Parks Canada.<br><br> Location:<x-tab> </x-tab> Auditorium, NS Museum of Natural History<br> <x-tab> </x-tab><x-tab> </x-tab>1747 Summer Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia.<br> Date/Time:<x-tab> </x-tab>May 25, 2010 at 7:30 pm. (also the Annual General Meeting =97 AGM)<br><br> <br> The illustrated lecture will focus on the collaboration between the Nova Scotia Museum, Parks Canada and Dalhousie University's Earth Sciences Department on understanding the unique environmental conditions of the marsh which have contributed to the continuity of rich agricultural practice and settlement at Grand Pre.<br><br> Katie Cottreau-Robins is the Curator of Archaeology for the Nova Scotia Museum (NSM) and a PhD Candidate at Dalhousie University (Interdisciplinary PhD Program). Her current research projects are mainly in the fields of historical and landscape archaeology and focus on the urban archaeology of Halifax, public archaeology, the archaeology of the Black Loyalists, the archaeology of slavery, and as part of the UNESCO proposal archaeology research team, Acadian and Planter settlement on the Grand Pre marsh lands. As an Interdisciplinary PhD candidate her dissertation work explores the life of Bridgadier General Timothy Ruggles, a prominent Loyalist from Hardwick, Massachusetts who arrived in Nova Scotia with family and slaves in 1784 to establish a farmstead in the Annapolis Valley. Originally a study of slavery in post-Revolutionary Nova Scotia, her project has grown to include the many forms of labor used by Ruggles to help re-create a Loyalist formula that positioned him so prominently on the Massachusetts political, military, and agricultural landscape. She has been conducting field work at Grand Pre since late 2007.<br><br> Rob Ferguson has been an archaeologist with Parks Canada since 1976. He graduated with a BA (Hon) in Anthropology from Trent University in 1974. Rob's first excavation was on the shipwreck Le Machault in Chaleur Bay, in 1969. Since then he has worked across the country, from Prince Rupert, B.C. to L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland, and from Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, to Canso, Nova Scotia. This year he is working on Acadian sites at Grand Pr=E9 and Port La Joye, and he looks forward to retirement in the coming year.<br><br> from <a href=3D"http://www.novascotiaarchaeologysociety.com/" eudora=3D"autourl"> http://www.novascotiaarchaeologysociety.com/<br><br> </a></body> </html> --=====================_3461734==.ALT--
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