Kenneth Holyoke

Ken Holyoke's expertise is in pre-Contact archaeology on the Maritime Peninsula, an area encompassing the Maritime Canadian provinces and adjacent parts of Quebec and Maine. Ken has over 15 years’ experience in academic and consulting archaeology and has worked on a variety of academic and CRM projects throughout Canadian Maritime Provinces, central Labrador, the north-central interior of British Columbia, and Maine, USA. Ken is a past Vice President and current Board Member of the Association of Professional Archaeologists of New Brunswick (APANB-AAPNB) and chair of the Advocacy Committee for the Canadian Archaeological Association.

His recent research has been focused on lithic quarry sourcing at Washademoak Lake, New Brunswick, place-making in the Wabanaki homeland, analyzing archaeological permitting trends in New Brunswick, and comparing lithic technological strategies in the Middle and Lower Wolastoq regions during the Maritime Woodland period. He also co-hosts a bi-weekly podcast on regional archaeology, "The New Brunswick Archaeology Podcast".

Topics :

Pre-Contact Indigenous Archaeology of North America
Northeastern North America/Maritime Peninsula Archaeology
Cultural Resource Management
Lithics (Stone tools)
Place-making
Quarry-sourcing
Heritage legislation and regulation
Geochemical sourcing techniques (SEM, XRF, pXRF, NAA)

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