Ken Holyoke

PhD Candidate
ken.holyoke@mail.utoronto.ca

Fields of Study

  • Archaeology
  • North America

Areas of Interest

Research Keywords
Prehistoric archaeology, Northeastern North America, Hunter-gatherers, Lithic Quarrying and Sourcing, Human-landscape interactions, Place-making, Wabanaki ethnohistory and ethnography

Research Region
Canadian Maritimes and Northern New England/Northeastern North America

Working Dissertation

Title

Persistent Place-making in the Ancestral Wabanaki Landscape: Washademoak Multi-coloured Chert and the Belyeas Cove Quarry

Supervisors

Gary Coupland

Biography

Ken Holyoke received his MA from University of New Brunswick in 2012 and is currently a PhD candidate whose research focuses on lithic technology, quarrying, sourcing, and exchange, place-making, and hunter-gatherer archaeology in the Northeast. Ken has conducted independent research in southeastern New Brunswick, and participated in research projects in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Maine, with over a decade experience in CRM working throughout Atlantic Canada, Northern BC, and now Southern Ontario. He has published on Maritime Peninsula pre-Contact history in the Canadian Journal of Archaeology, Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, and the Canadian Museum of History’s Mercury Series, and is co-editor of the forthcoming Mercury Series volume The Far Northeast: 3000 BP to Contact.

Cohort

  • 2017-2018