Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology, UAlberta

Happy Friday, everyone! Don't forget, our next Speaker Series event is next Tuesday, the 24th. Curious to learn more? Check out the link below!
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Interested in historical archaeology and planning to attend the Canadian Archaeological Association conference in May? Consider submitting a paper to this great session, hosted by two of our IPIA scholars! Email Solène or Sara for more info, and visit the CAA website to submit an abstract 🏺

Interested in learning more about field schools being offered through UAlberta? Check out this upcoming roundtable discussion, on Feb 25th! 🏺

Good news - our first Speaker Series event of 2026 is coming this month! Join us Feb 24th, 11:30 am (MT), to learn about ecocultural archives from Dr. Robin Woywitka. Free to attend in person or online, registration for online is required. Learn more at the webpage we've linked! 🏺

There's still time for students to apply to the 2026 IPIA Field School, held in St. Albert from May 25 to June 26. Check out the page below to learn more! Applications close Feb 15th.
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Applications are still open! Want to learn more? Check out our website for details! 🏺

Register and join us tomorrow for this webinar on how to identify and confront the rising tide of residential school denialism and antI-Indigenous hatred.

ICYMI: applications for our 2026 field school are now open! Check out the website below for more info.
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Are you interested in historic archaeology in western Canada? Consider submitting a paper to this great session hosted by two of our wonderful IPIA scholars, Dr. Solène Mallet Gauthier and Sara Lefurgey, at this year's CAA conference! 🏺

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Former IPIA scholar Dr. Solène Mallet Gauthier @somag.bsky.social was interviewed by Radio-Canada about CRM archaeology in Canada and the need for more archaeologists. Listen (in French) at the link below!
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ICYMI: applications for our 2026 field school are now open! Check out the website below for more info.
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Happy New Year, everyone! We're excited to share that applications for the 2026 IPIA archaeology field school in St. Albert, AB, are now open! Applications will close on February 15, 2026. Visit our website for the application link, and to learn more:
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Join us in congratulating IPIA scholar Solène Mallet Gauthier, who today passed her PhD defense! Congratulations, Doctor Mallet Gauthier!

Check it out: a new open access article from a special 2023 roundtable session at the AAAs featuring interviews with anthropologists and archaeologists who are helping identify unmarked graves at Residential Schools (Canada) and boarding schools (US), including IPIA Director Dr. Kisha Supernant 🏺

Tomorrow! Online registration is still open!

We are disappointed to see that the new Federal Budget has not committed to sustained, long-term funding towards supporting the ongoing investigations into missing children and unmarked graves associated with Indian Residential Schools in Canada. See the CAA statement below for more:

Field school news! The IPIA will once again be running our Indigenous Archaeology Field School in St. Albert, AB, from May 25th to June 26th 2026. Applications will open Jan 5th, 2026. Learn more at our field school page:
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Description for Maria's talk about her research conducted at the Batoche National Historic Site. Talk will be held at the Musée Héritage Museum, which is inside St. Albert Place, on Friday Nov 21 from 2 to 3 pm Mountain Time. Admission is $3 per person.

If you're in St. Albert on Friday, come hear recent IPIA grad Maria Nelson share some of her research into Métis cemeteries, kinscapes, and deathscapes! 🏺

Our next Speaker Series event is on Dec 2, 11:30 am to 12:30 pm (MT)! Dr. Katie Biittner will be talking about archaeogaming and the early history of video game development. In-person and online, visit our event page for more info!

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www.ualberta.ca/en/prairie-i...

Description for Maria's talk about her research conducted at the Batoche National Historic Site. Talk will be held at the Musée Héritage Museum, which is inside St. Albert Place, on Friday Nov 21 from 2 to 3 pm Mountain Time. Admission is $3 per person.

If you're in St. Albert on Friday, come hear recent IPIA grad Maria Nelson share some of her research into Métis cemeteries, kinscapes, and deathscapes! 🏺

Field school news! The IPIA will once again be running our Indigenous Archaeology Field School in St. Albert, AB, from May 25th to June 26th 2026. Applications will open Jan 5th, 2026. Learn more at our field school page:
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www.ualberta.ca/en/prairie-i...

Our next Speaker Series event is on Dec 2, 11:30 am to 12:30 pm (MT)! Dr. Katie Biittner will be talking about archaeogaming and the early history of video game development. In-person and online, visit our event page for more info!

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www.ualberta.ca/en/prairie-i...

Sara standing in a room of seated audience members. To her left is a large projector screen with the title of her presentation, "Exploring parameters and limitations: soil spectroscopy in burial contexts."

Congratulations to our MA student Sara Lefurgey for her first conference presentation, on soil spectroscopy and her use of tech called the S4 in burial contexts, at the recent conference for the Canadian Association of Biological Anthropology! 🎉

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Thank you to all who attended, and to our wonderful speaker Dr. Andre Costopoulos for such an interesting talk!

Stay tuned for details for our next talk in early December, perhaps a little something about archaeogaming 👀

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This is on Thursday! Online registration is available for those who can't attend in-person!

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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: The Cultural Evolution of Beliefs about UFOs since the Second World War. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. Join the Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology for our first talk of the 2025-26 Speaker Series! We'll be joined by Anthropology Department Chair Andre Costopoulos, who will be giving an ex...

Registration for online attendance:
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Poster for a talk on Oct 30, 11:30 am to 12:30 pm MT, titled "The Cultural Evolution of Beliefs About UFOs since the Second World War." Talk is in-person on the UAlberta campus, in the Tory Building, room 14-28. It is also available online, and the registration for the zoom link is in the next post.

Our first Speaker Series event of 2025 is coming up! Join us on Oct 30, 11:30 to 12:30 pm MT, to hear Dr. Andre Costopoulos talk about the evolution of UFO beliefs from WWII to today! Attend in-person in Tory 14-28, or join us online (registration in the next post). Hope to see you there! 🏺

This is great news! The Vatican holds a number of sacred objects belonging to Indigenous communities across the globe, spanning Asia to Africa and the Americas. I hope this will be the first of many

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This morning IPIA PhD Candidate Solène Mallet Gauthier was interviewed by Radio-Canada about the Vatican's return of Indigenous belongings. Give it a listen at the link below! 🏺
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The End of Archaeology as We Know It - World Records

"Heart-centered practice wants to take emotion from the margins, something you talk about in the hallways, to the center of scholarship."

Check out this excellent new interview with our IPIA Director, Dr. Kisha Supernant 🏺