Recent Publications

Some of Dr. Rankin's recent publications are illustrated below.

2000 Dr. Rankin's Ph.D. research in southwestern Ontario was published in the British Archaeological Reports (BAR).

 

2006 In 2004, Dr. Rankin organized an internationally attended conference to mark the retirement of Dr. Jim Tuck from Memorial's Archaeology Unit. The papers were published in the BAR in 2006. Dr. Rankin's paper in this volume is entitled A Labrador Archaic Longhouse site at Sandy Cove, Labrador: Life on the south side of Groswater Bay.

 

2006 In 2004, Dr. Rankin attended the North Atlantic Biocultural Organization (NABO) conference in Copenhagen, and presented a paper entitled Colonizing Labrador: The Actions and Reactions of the Paleo-Eskimo, written in collaboration with 4th year student Lori Squires. The conference proceedings were published in 2006 by the Danish National Museum.

 

2008 In 2008 Dr. Rankin contributed the first chapter of a new volume on the history of Newfoundland and Labrador produced by the Newfoundland Historical Society. Entitled Native Peoples from the Ice Age to the Extinction of the Beothuk the chapter outlines the pre-contact history of the province.

 

2008 In 2008 the first edition of North Atlantic Archaeology was published by the Archaeology Unit, Memorial University. Dr. Rankin's paper in this volume is entitled Un-caching Hunter-Gatherer Culture in Labrador: From Daily Life to Long-Term History. She also contributed to another paper in this volume submitted by research collaborator and geo-archaeologist Dr. Richard Josephs called Micromorphological Investigations at Upper Sandy Cove 3 and Porcupine Strand 23 Archaeological Sites, Labrador.