Stephanie Halmhofer

University of Alberta | UAlberta · Department of Anthropology

Heritage (and by extension, archaeology) is an important part of the Star Wars universe. Both the Jedi and the Sith share teachings revolving around sites and artifacts important to their heritage and identities, and archaeologists like Dr. Chelli Aphra have played important roles in the development and maintenance of such heritage. However, the po...

Pop culture can be a powerful medium for sharing archaeology and inspiring interest in our field. But what happens when that archaeological information being shared is incorrect? What happens when it’s not archaeology being shared, but rather pseudoarchaeology? This presentation aims to explore those questions, using two comic series – Lost City Ex...

Heritage (and by extension, archaeology) is an important part of the Star Wars universe. Both the Jedi and the Sith share teachings revolving around sites and artifacts important to their heritage and identities, and archaeologists like Chelli Aphra have played important roles in the development and maintenance of heritage. However, the politicizat...

Heritage (and by extension, archaeology) is an important part of the Star Wars universe. Both the Jedi and the Sith share teachings revolving around sites and artifacts important to their heritage and identities, and archaeologists like Chelli Aphra have played important roles in the development and maintenance of heritage. However, the politicizat...

This commentary debunks the poor scholarship in Repatriation and Erasing the Past by Elizabeth Weiss and James Springer. We show that modern bioarchaeological practice with Indigenous remains places ethics, partnership, and collaboration at the fore and that the authors’ misconstructed dichotomous fallacy between “objective science” and Indigenous...

of the goals and accomplishments of the Awesome Small Working Group of the Society for American Archaeology.

The scientific enterprise benefits from diverse perspectives. We asked young scientists to Describe your unique identity and how it contributes to your scientific work and community. Respondents from across the world shared their unique backgrounds and how those experiences shaped them. These scientists described their drive to help their communiti...

The scientific enterprise benefits from diverse perspectives. We asked young scientists to Describe your unique identity and how it contributes to your scientific work and community. Respondents from across the world shared their unique backgrounds and how those experiences shaped them. These scientists described their drive to help their communiti...

In May 2015, a disturbed burial was uncovered in Garden Bay, British Columbia, within close proximity to the large shíshálh village site of Sexwamin (DjSa-3). Found in association with the burial were 244 intact smooth, unadorned mold-blown (SUMB) glass beads and 40 SUMB glass bead fragments. Due to their extremely fragile nature, blown glass beads...

An appendix of glass beads reported from archaeological sites in British Columbia up to and including 2015

References for my SAA 2018 paper, as well as my 2017 Masters thesis

An excerpt from my unpublished Masters thesis. Chapter 3 describes the history of the Bohemian glass bead industry and discussion of the characteristics of the blown glass beads from Sexwamin that link the beads to Bohemia.

In May 2015, a disturbed, partial burial was uncovered during excavation for a small construction project in Garden Bay, British Columbia, only 50 m north of the known shíshálh village site of Sexwamin (DjSa-3). Recovered from excavations conducted between 2015 and 2017 was one adult human mandible associated with 284 smooth, unadorned, mold-blown...

This presentation reported preliminary results of excavations conducted in SW British Columbia between 2015 and 2017, which uncovered glass beads in a style (moulded, blown-glass) never previously uncovered in British Columbia, never reported in Canada, and known from only 3 other sites in North America.

This presentation reported on two cases of rare bipartite coracoids observed in two archaeological individuals uncovered in SW British Columbia. This presentation speculated on the possible causes for the bipartite coracoids, such as congenital variations and accidental and intentional trauma. Though finding two women with the same rare condition f...