The Ontario Archaeological Society’s latest publication, Arch Notes, features the fruits of another research collaboration by journalism professor Randy Boswell and Canadian Museum of History archaeologist Jean-Luc Pilon. A brief item Boswell discovered in an 1852 issue of the Ottawa Citizen has identified a previously unrecorded archaeological site from 19th-century Ottawa.
A June 1852 news item has helped resolve a longstanding mystery about Ottawa-area archaeological history and identified a possible ancient aboriginal burial site previously unknown to scholars.
The fresh find has added more evidence to a major rewrite of the national capital’s archaeological history that Boswell and Pilon have produced for the next issue of the Canadian Journal of Archaeology, the country’s top publication in the field, which is due to appear in the coming weeks.
Boswell’s research in old newspapers is linked to a planned biography of 19th-century Ottawa antiquarian Dr. Edward Van Cortlandt, a broader project that recently received a $7,500 New Faculty Supplement Award from the office of Dr. Nimal Rajapakse, Carleton’s vice-president (research and international).
Tuesday, November 3, 2015 in Journalism News, News
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