RESEARCH

CURRENT PROJECTS

Amina Anthropological Resources Association (AARA) is currently seeking ways to financially support the 2008 archaeological field season of the Bird Cove-Pond Cove Archaeology Project, which is located in Northern Newfoundland. This project is a source of pride and economic revenue for local towns, which were severely devastated by the collapse of the fishery. This area has had near continual occupation for five thousand years and has been home to almost every cultural group that has inhabited Newfoundland and Labrador. To date the archaeological investigations have been focused on pre-contact sites such as those of the Maritime Archaic Indians, Palaeoeskimos, and Recent Indians but in the last couple of years the project has been expanding its research mandate to include historic French, Basque and English sites as well. AARA is also contributing to the publication costs of A Decade of Archaeological Research and Bird Cove-Plum Point: Contributions to the Human and Natural History of Newfoundland’s Northern Peninsula – a book which highlights the major archaeological finds in this area.

In addition to these scholarly endeavours, AARA will promote the 10th anniversary celebrations of the Bird Cove-Plum Point Archaeology Project in 2008 by arranging an informative lecture series and conference based on the social-cultural and geological history of Northern Newfoundland, the Lower North Shore of Quebec, and Labrador and its place within the circumpolar world. A range of professionals will speak at this series and conference including archaeologists, historians, filmmakers, and skilled artisans.

Check back in May/June 2008 for a schedule of events.

Also see Publications and Productions

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Above: Map of Sites at Bird Cove-Plum Point

Top Left: L. Hartery and field team at a Paleoeskimo site, Bird Cove

Top Right: Local and international excavators at work, Bird Cove

Background: Bird Cove seen from hiking trail