92 Anthropology and Archaeology
Collections
SFU Archaeology Press 
(CC BY-ND)
A collection of reports and monographs on topics in archaeology published by SFU Archaeology Press.
Vertebrate Paleontology 3D Database (CC BY-NC)
A collection of dinosaur bone scans.
Monographs
The Ancient Past of Keatley Creek: Volume I: Taphonomy (CC BY-NC-ND)
Keatley Creek is a world heritage quality site with unusually large housepits, good preservation, clear architectural features and evidence for complex socioeconomic organization. Work done here has been at the centre of theoretical and methodological advances in archaeological studies of complex hunter/gatherers. Volume I: Taphonomy includes thorough documentation of dating, climate, soils, and site formation processes. Botanical, faunal and lithic remains are examined to see what they reveal about the formation of different types of strata (floors, roofs, middens). Stone sources are identified and the lithic assemblage is analyzed from a design theory perspective emphasizing both artifacts and debitage.
The Ancient Past of Keatley Creek: Volume II: Socioeconomy (CC BY-NC-ND)
Volume II: Socioeconomy presents analyses dealing with the basic social, economic, and political organization of the prehistoric community at Keatley Creek. Faunal, botanical, and lithic remains are examined in individual chapters to determine how activities were structured within housepits of different sizes (small, medium, and large).
Archaeology of the Lower Fraser River Region (CC BY-NC-ND)
a considerable number of significant and richly informative archaeological studies have been conducted within the Lower Fraser River Region of southwestern British Columbia. As a result, a great deal has been revealed and learned about pre-contact period and early post-contact period human occupation, settlement, and use of natural resources. This book aims to bring those studies together into a single volume.
The Archaeology of Kamloops (CC BY-NC-ND)
This report is concerned with archaeological excavations in the south-central interior of British Columbia, in the vicinity of Kamloops. The principal results of the research are the description and incorporation of new archaeological data into a cultural-historical synthesis for the Kamloops locality.
This controversial volume by Siberian archaeologists, Yuri Mochanov and Svetlana Fedoseeva, places the recent discoveries of early Paleolithic artifacts at the Diring Yuriak site on the Lena River in Siberia, dated at several million years ago, in a model of human origins in the north and thereby challenges the current ruling theory of human origins in Africa. In addition the authors provide illustrations of artifact assemblages from their forty years of research in northeast Siberia that span the early Paleolithic, Middle Paleolithic, and late Paleolithic periods.
At A Crossroads: Archaeology and First Peoples in Canada (CC BY-NC-ND)
The 20 papers in this volume were written by both Native and Non-Native authors, and provide both substance and food-for-thought concerning the complex interactions between archaeologists and contemporary indigenous peoples of Canada in regard to working together, interpretation of the past, ownership of the past, and the relationships between traditional knowledge and archaeological fact.
Lifestyle in Siberia and the Russian North (CC BY)
Lifestyle in Siberia and the Russian North breaks new ground by exploring the concept of lifestyle from a distinctly anthropological perspective. Showcasing the collective work of ten experienced scholars in the field, the book goes beyond concepts of tradition that have often been the focus of previous research, to explain how political, economic and technological changes in Russia have created a wide range of new possibilities and constraints in the pursuit of different ways of life.
Toolstone Geography of the Pacific Northwest (CC BY-NC-ND)
This book includes fifteen chapters by well-known and respected authors presenting new and intriguing revelations about toolstones in British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and northern California. Each chapter examines lithic raw material sources, the uses and distribution of the toolstones quarried from them, and the archaeological or anthropological inferences that studies of toolstone geography provide.
Textbooks
B.C. Open Textbook Collection: Anthropology (Various CC licences)
A collection of open textbooks on various topics relating to anthropology.
ANTH 101 (CC BY-NC-SA)
A free online textbook called The Art of Being Human along with a collection of complementary ancillary resources including lesson plans, activities, and videos.
Introduction to Human Osteology (CC BY-NC)
This text was designed for use in the human osteology laboratory classroom. Bones are described to aid in identification of skeletonized remains in either an archaeological or forensic anthropology setting. Basic techniques for siding, aging, sexing, and stature estimation are described. Both images of bone and drawings are included which may be used for study purposes outside of the classroom.
