“Feature” Employee: Joel Konrad
Meet Dr. Joel Konrad. He’s a Cultural Heritage Specialist on our Built Heritage team. This family man loves bridges, playing music, exploring creepy basements and navigating the sea. Okay, that last thing isn’t true… yet. I grew up near a nineteenth-century fort on the Penobscot River in Maine and loved exploring the passageways during family […]
#ArchaeologyProblems
Most archaeologists/cultural heritage specialists can relate to these situations at one time or another. #WeFeelYourPain
Visiting Researchers at ASI
From time to time, students and researchers in different fields of study come by our offices to use our collections and consult with our specialists. Here is where you can read more about the exciting projects they are working on… Liam Browne (Master’s candidate, Trent University) I am a Master’s candidates studying the late Paleoindian […]
Seeing Green: A Transfer of Artifacts to Sustainable Archaeology
For the past few months, the Laboratory Services team at ASI has been preparing many of our collections for the purpose of transferring them to Sustainable Archaeology’s London facility. Sustainable Archaeology is a collaborative initiative between Western University and McMaster University, located at the Museum of Ontario Archaeology (London), as well as McMaster’s Innovation Park (Hamilton). It […]
“Feature” Employee: Bruce Welsh
Meet Dr. Bruce Welsh: a nature-loving Scotsman with a penchant for haggis, hiking and Orwellian theories. A real “post whisperer,” this senior archaeologist has seen it all…and is not afraid to tell you about it. Initially began my undergraduate degree in Classics and languages and literature (Latin, French and English). One of my first year […]
Ancient Ten Fish Soup Recipe
Discovered after analyzing carbonized food debris from a 1,300 year-old vessel, the Ancient Ten Fish Soup recipe is now available for you and your culinary curiosity! [line] This reconstructed vessel was found on the Peace Bridge site in Fort Erie, ON. The vessel was radiocarbon-dated to AD 675 and, based on analysis of the carbonized food […]
ASI at the SHA Conference in Quebec City
The 2014 Society for Historical Archaeology (SHA) Conference happened last week (January 8 – 12) in Quebec City, Quebec. Many of the staff here at Archaeological Services Inc. were not only in attendance, but were among the many presenters of new and interesting research in the field of historical archaeology, archaeological site management and 15th […]
“Feature” Employee: Heidy Schopf
Meet Heidy. She works in our Built Heritage and Cultural Heritage Landscape Division to study, evaluate, and document heritage properties. Heidy has a particular knack for investigating creepy places: in the real world she’s an explorer of abandoned properties, and in the virtual world she’s an explorer of the fantasy realms of Skyrim, Ferelden, and Etheria. […]
“Feature” Employee: Jennifer Ley
Meet Jennifer Ley. She is a Staff Archaeologist for the Toronto Survey division and a lover of all things archaeology and animal-related (well, except for spiders, naturally). I had always been interested in archaeology when I was younger… dare I say since I first watched Indiana Jones. However, my original plan going into University was to major […]
“Feature” Employee: Johanna Kelly
Meet Johanna Kelly. Johanna is the proud owner of an adorable black lab, she is a pretty good soccer player, and she likes long walks on the beach at sunset. Oh, and she really like bones. MUMMIES! I was addicted to Discovery Channel and TLC (pre-Toddlers in Tiaras) as a kid. I learned how to the […]
