Department of Anthropology | University of Waterloo

Scott Martin is currently in the final revisions phase of his Ph.D., conducted at the University of Cambridge, UK. His doctoral research has been concerned with understanding the social contexts of interaction and the local subsistence practices that facilitated or discouraged the spread of maize agriculture through the Lower Great Lakes region of North America during the first millennium AD. His MA studies at the University of Durham, UK pertained to hunter-gatherer theory and the cognate investigation of the role of foragers in the spread of agro-pastoralism through temperate Europe. His BA Honours degree at McMaster University was (sub)disciplinarily broad, but emphasised archaeology and human osteology.

Apart from taking part in a number of Cultural Resource Management consulting projects in southern Ontario, his recent fieldwork has been conducted in the Cootes Paradise wetland, in Hamilton, Ontario. He has also begun preliminary desktop research for a prehistoric land-use project in the lakeland district of northwestern Ireland.

During the spring term of 2005, he will be teaching Anthropology 101 (Human and Cultural Evolution) at Waterloo.

Contact Information

Phone: (519) 888 4567 x 2553 (May to August 2005)
Email: swjm2@cam.ac.uk

Written Contributions

Martin, Scott. 1999. The Forager Revolution: Socio-Cultural Interactions and the Spread of Agro-Pastoralism in Temperate Europe. Unpublished Master’s dissertation, University of Durham, UK.

Martin, Scott. 2003a. Final Site Report on Stage 3 Archaeological Excavation at Rat Island (AhGx-7), Cootes Paradise, Hamilton, Ontario. Unpublished report on file in the Heritage and Libraries Branch, Ontario Ministry of Culture, Toronto.

Martin, Scott. 2003b. Final Site Report on Stage 4 Archaeological Excavation at Rat Island (AhGx-7), Cootes Paradise, Hamilton, Ontario. Unpublished report on file in the Heritage and Libraries Branch, Ontario Ministry of Culture, Toronto.

Martin, Scott. 2004. “Romanarchy in the UK”. Review of Britons and Romans: advancing an archaeological agenda, edited by Simon James and Martin Millett. 2001. Research Report 125. York: Council for British Archaeology. Archaeological Review from Cambridge.

Martin, Scott. 2005a. Stage 2 Archaeological Report on Sassafras Point No. 2 (AhGx-5), Cootes Paradise, Hamilton, Ontario. Unpublished report on file in the Heritage and Libraries Branch, Ontario Ministry of Culture, Toronto.

Martin, Scott. 2005b. The Archaeology of Rat Island (AhGx-7), Cootes Paradise, Hamilton, Ontario. Kewa: Newsletter of the London Chapter, Ontario Archaeological Society 05(3):1-19.

Martin, Scott. 2005c. Earmarked: Maize, Materiality and Agricultural Frontiers in the Lower Great Lakes Region of North America. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, UK.

Martin, Scott. forthcoming. Lower Great Lakes Region Maize in the First Millennium AD. Unpublished paper presented at the ESAF-OAS Conference, held in November 2004 in Midland, Ontario.

Martin, Scott. in preparation. Iroquoian Speakers and the Lower Great Lakes Region. Unpublished paper presented at the TAG 2001 Conference, held in December 2001 in Dublin, Ireland.

Martin, Scott. in preparation. Irish Foragers and Environmental Determinism. Unpublished paper.