International Women's Day 2020 In her own words... - Kelly Gostick I’m Kelly and I’m a Staff Archaeologist, Report Writer and Field Director at TMHC. My love of archaeology started after my mom took my siblings and I to a public archaeology day that Laurentian University was hosting during their field school at the LaVase North Bank Site in North Bay.  After learning more about archaeology from shows I watched on TLC, the Discovery Channel and the History Channel (back when they actually showed educational programing!), I knew that I wanted to be an archaeologist. Kelly's MA Thesis: If Pits Could Talk: An Analysis of Features from the Figura Site (AgHk-52)           My love of archaeology took me to Wilfrid Laurier University where I earned a…

International Women's Day 2020 In her own words... - Breanne Reibl Hi everyone! I am Breanne, the Archaeobotanical Analyst at TMHC. I also work as a Lab and Field Technician, meaning I wear a number of hats. I came to TMHC in September 2018 to mainly work on botanical material from The Ward project, but my research interests began in Ontario Iroquoian archaeobotany. For those of you wondering just what an archaeobotanist does, I look for seeds and other plant materials in soil samples that we take from sites. After the samples go through a process called flotation, I sort out the botanical remains and then identify what I can under microscope. The data gives me an idea as to which plants people in the past were using or eating…

International Women's Day 2020 In her own words... - Series Introduction