Report on 2008 excavation at Stock Cove site, Newfoundland

Evidence for Late Paleo-Indian Ritual from the Caradoc Site (AfHj-104), Southwestern Ontario, Canada

American Antiquity, 2001

Variability in the Archaeological Record of Northeastern Paleoindians: A View from Southern Ontario

Archaeology of Eastern North America, 1997

Understanding Cache Variability: A Deliberately Burned Early Paleoindian Tool Assemblage from the Crowfield Site, Southwestern Ontario, Canada

Co-Authored with D. B. Deller and J. R. Keron, American Antiquity 74, 2009

Valsgärde - development and change of burial ground for 1300 years

published in: Valsgärde studies: the Place and its People, Past and Present. (S. Norr ed.) (Uppsala 2008) 13-55.

DATING TWO ROYAL MOUNDS OF OLD UPPSALA

published in: Archäologisches Korrespondenzblatt Jahrgang 38 · 2008 · Heft 2

Dating two royal mounds of Old Uppsala – evaluating the elite of the 6th-7th century in Middle Sweden
The perhaps most famous excavated iron age graves in Sweden are the East- and West Mounds of Old Uppsala (Gamla
Uppsala) in Uppland, Middle Sweden. After a debate which lasted from the 1920s to the late 1940s it was widely
accepted that these mounds belonged to the Migration period. According to the regular Swedish chronology this
means a date before the middle of the 6th century. I believe that this view is wrong and that it has not seriously been
challenged since 1948. To date the mounds to the late 6th and even the early 7th century has a serious effect upon how
elite, society and international relations should be interpreted.

Borderland-stalkers and Stalking Horses. Horse Sacrifice as Liminal Activity in the Early Iron Age.

Published in "Current Swedish Archaeology" vol.14. 2006

Archaeology in Iceland: Recent Developments

Scandinavian-Canadian Studies 16, 10-26

Contact between the Norse Vikings and the Dorset culture in Arctic Canada

2008. Antiquity 82:189-198

Instances of cultural interaction between Norse and native American have long been accepted. But current archaeological research recognises that the indigenous peoples of the north were themselves diverse and had diverse histories. Here the author shows that the culture of one of them, the Dorset people, owed nothing to the Norse and probably had no contact with them.

On the Question of Silk in Pre-Han Eurasia

Antiquity 69 (1995)

When was silk first brought across the steppe from far China towards the European world? There is silk from the Middle Bronze Age of Uzbekistan, in Scythian burials of Siberia and among the Hallstatt grave-goods of western Europe. Teasing out the story of silk depends on identifying the textile, and distinguishing its several varieties apart.

EXPLORING INNER ASIA’S HIGH ALPINE FRONTIER

pre-publication draft for EASAA 2007 Ravenna conference proceedings (U. Bologna)

Models of interaction in Eurasian archaeology, particularly for the bronze and iron ages, have centered on large-scale movements of peoples explained by principally economic or climatic drivers, for example in the exchange of exotic goods, or of the expanding steppe zone due to increased aridity. These models have relied on a simplistic ‘steppe nomad’ versus ‘settled farmer’ dichotomy, with mixed agro-pastoral systems consistently overlooked. Tribal exogamy and gender and age-based activities also contribute to the complexity of interaction in prehistoric Eurasia. This paper considers social dimensions of interaction and in particular discusses the importance of highland and high alpine landscapes, not as strictly wild space but also as an emerging cultural space, especially as mining metal ores and precious stones increased. This highland and alpine space became an integral region of interaction in Central Asia, with remnants of ancient lifeways still found among rural Pamiri peoples today.