[siteorigin_widget class="SiteOrigin_Widget_Hero_Widget"][/siteorigin_widget]Field to Table: Digital Archaeological Forms and Databases Field data collection in archaeology, particularly in cultural resource management (CRM), has remained pretty static since we first started jotting field notes in books and filling out labels for bags of artifacts (e.g., the technology in Rite in the Rain notebooks goes back to the early 20th century). Recently however, with the increasing innovation of mobile technologies such as cellphones and tablets and an increasing competitive commercial marketplace, some archaeologists are looking to shift from analog and go digital, capitalizing on the potential for increased efficiencies. TMHC has been designing and testing our own versions of field forms within an open-sourced platform and want to share some of what we’ve learned about this new form of data collection. What Digital Data…

Timmins Martelle in the News: The Former Sault Ste. Marie Jail Two burials may exist on former jail site Elaine Della-Mattia, Sault Star, February 22, 2018

We live in a pretty big country. Including land and sea territory, Canada covers 9.98 million square kilometres. That’s a vast territory consisting of thousands of ecosystems each with its own operational quirks, patterns and idiosyncrasies. These ecosystems and the landscapes that encompass them cycle on timescales that can reach far beyond a mere couple of centuries. In surveying the scale of recent Canadian land-use (residential, agricultural, forestry, mining, etc.) and the relative swiftness with which that land-use has pervaded the landscape, it can be tempting to attribute this expansion to technological advances and the “superiority” of modern land management. But this notion of “frontier”-ism, or the primacy of the recent past fails to acknowledge that this vast territory and its multitude of ecosystems were already well understood by the…