Assistant Professor
AP520
Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Fields of Study
- Archaeology
- Arctic
- North America
Areas of Interest
Research keywords: Archaeology; material culture; interaction; Tuniit; Dorset; Inuit; metal use; Arctic; Nunatsiavut; Nunavik
Research Regions: North America, Arctic
Teaching Interests: Laboratory analysis; human interaction; hunter-gatherers; Arctic archaeology; archaeological theory
Biography
Patrick Jolicoeur is an archaeologist that specializes in the Eastern North American Arctic. His main research interest focuses on understanding the dynamics of human interactions in the region across its roughly 5000 years of human history. He approaches this topic primarily through analyzing material culture remains. This has led his work to engage with a variety of topics, such as the earliest widespread metal use and exchange in the North American Arctic, organic (bone, ivory, antler, and wood) technology manufacture, radiocarbon dating and Bayesian analysis, and the debated interactions between the latest Tuniit (Dorset) and earliest Inuit. While building these datasets requires an Arctic-wide approach, his fieldwork primarily focuses in Nunatsiavut and the easternmost North American Arctic.
Education
PhD, University of Glasgow, 2019
Sample Publications
- 2024. Jolicoeur, P.C. Comparing scales of Metal Use between Inuit and Dorset (Tuniit) groups in the Eastern North American Arctic. In From Hard Rock to Heavy Metal: Metal Tool Production and Use by Indigenous Hunter-Gatherers of North America. Christopher Wolff and Michelle Bebber, eds. Berghahn Books.
- 2021. Jolicoeur, P. C. Dorset Harpoon Endblade Hafting and Early Metal Use in the North American Arctic. ARCTIC 74(3):276–289. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14430/arctic73149
- 2021. Jolicoeur, P. C. Detecting Early Wide-Spread Metal Use in the Eastern North American Arctic AD 500–1300. American Antiquity 86(1):111–132. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2020.46