Lindsay Amundsen

I was born and raised in the small town of Ponoka in central Alberta. I moved to Calgary to undertake a Bachelor’s degree in archaeology at the University of Calgary, which I completed in 2009. My Honours Thesis research focused on the Banff Sanitarium, a historic spa/hospital site in Banff National Park, examining how the transition to modern medicine is reflected in the site’s archaeological assemblage. During my undergraduate degree, I participated in field schools on the Caribbean island of Antigua and worked as an archaeologist for several Alberta cultural resource management firms and Parks Canada.

I began my graduate degree in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Calgary in 2009, completing one year of my Master of Arts degree before fast-tracking into the PhD program. My research interests include Plains archaeology, landscape archaeology, the use of geographic information systems in archaeology and method and theory in hunter-gatherer research. My dissertation research evaluates two models of settlement patterning (ecological and spiritual) within the traditional territory of the Blackfoot people. This will ultimately lead to a better understanding of how archaeological sites in the region relate to each other and the landscape and of how the landscape was used by past peoples. I am currently directing an ongoing, multi-year archaeological survey project in Southern Alberta to gather data for this research.

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