Bird Bone Tube Snare Guards in the Archaeology Collection of the Royal B.C. Museum.
Introduction There are many different sizes of bird bone artifacts found in archaeological sites in British Columbia. The function of many of these […]
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Marmot Trap Triggers in the Royal B.C. Museum Ethnology Collection
Introduction Marmots were hunted in many parts of British Columbia for their furs and their fat content. Both Coastal and Interior peoples went into […]
Toredo Tube Artifacts
There is a type of artifact found in British Columbia that I suspect archaeologists have been missing during the process of excavation. Some […]
Beyond “Spirit Bears”
In 2006, the “Spirit bear” was adopted as the provincial mammal of British Columbia. The term “Spirit Bear” has to a large extent […]
Branching Out
I recently spent an enjoyable day hunting Common Wall Lizards to help Camosun College students with a research project. Lizards were easily caught with […]
A tale of two tails
The armoured glyptodonts and ankylosaurs are one of my favourite examples of convergent evolution, the evolutionary phenomenon in which distantly related animals evolve […]