Alisha Gauvreau

Nested within the Hakai Ancient Landscapes Archaeology Project, my PhD research at UVIC focuses on the subsistence and settlement history of the Triquet Island (EkTb-9) site which hosts an ancient Heiltsuk First Nation village with a 14,000 year record of repeated human occupation. It is one of the oldest, and longest occupied archaeological sites in Canada. Triquet Island provides a unique opportunity to learn more about the long-term development of culture, technology and historical ecology at a single place of seamless human occupation.

https://www.hakai.org/blog/life-at-hakai/hakai-archaeology-story

http://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/heiltsuk-first-nation-village-among-oldest-in-north-america-archeologists

My community-based Master's research (Simon Fraser University, Department of Resource and Environmental Management) explored Heiltsuk First Nation governance systems and traditional herring fisheries management on the central coast, BC. 

http://www.pacificherring.org

Research interests: historical ecology, paleoclimate reconstruction, zooarchaeology, wet-site archaeology, indigenous oral traditions and histories, decoloniality.