Our work in the news
The latest media features, interviews, public talks, and publications from the project.
Media features
2021
Nov. 2021. The Tales Bones Tell: Uncovering Lost Voices at the Fortress of Louisbourg. UNB Research.
Aug. 2021. Rescuing Human Remains. CBC Information Morning - Fredericton.
Aug. 2021. Young Girl’s Remains Reveal the Day-to-Day Struggle at Fortress of Louisbourg. CBC Nova Scotia.
2018
Oct. 2018. UNB Partners with Parks Canada on Historic Archaeology Project. The Brunswickan.
Sept. 2018. 3 Strange Buttons Help Archaeologists Identify 18th Century Skeleton as Foreign-Born Soldier. Forbes Science News.
Aug. 2018. Fortress Dig Unearths Human History. Cape Breton Post.
Aug. 2018. Students unearth 300-year-old human remains near Louisbourg. CBC News
Aug. 2018. Eighteenth-century graves in Canada threatened by erosion. Archaeology Magazine
Aug. 2018. Louisbourg Dig. CBC Information Morning - Cape Breton
March 2018. Putting together pieces of the past. CBC Information Morning - Fredericton
2017
Aug. 2017. Louisbourg Dig. CBC Information Morning - Fredericton
Aug. 2017. Mainstreet Visits Louisbourg. CBC Mainstreet Cape Breton
July 2017. Fortress Louisbourg Archeology. CBC Information Morning – Cape Breton
July 2017. Centuries-old graves being dug up near Louisbourg before they're lost. CBC News
July 2017. Scientists study remains to learn more about Louisbourg settlers. Cape Breton Post
May 2017. Cape Breton burials. CBC As It Happens
April 2017. Erosion threatens burial ground at Fortress Louisbourg. Cape Breton Post
April 2017. ‘Rescue archaeology’ needed to save 300-year-old Louisbourg burial ground. CBC News
April 2017. Parks Canada partners with University of New Brunswick to bring bioarchaeological field program to national historic site. UNB Newsroom
April 2017. La bioarchéologie et la Forteresse-de-Louisbourg. CBC Radio-Canada Moncton
Public talks
January 2024. Bioarchaeology and Battling Climate Change: An Overview of the Rochefort Point Cemetery Excavation at the 18th Century Fortress of Louisbourg. Canadian Federation of University Women, Moncton Chapter, Virtual.
February 2023. The Rochefort Point Cemetery Excavation at the 18th Century Fortress of Louisbourg. Old Sydney Society, Virtual.
February 2023. The Rochefort Point Cemetery Excavation at the 18th Century Fortress of Louisbourg. Archaeological Society of Alberta, Virtual.
November 2022. The Benefit of Bioarchaeology: An Overview of the Rochefort Point Cemetery Excavation at the 18th Century Fortress of Louisbourg. New Brunswick Genealogical Society, Fredericton, NB.
October 2022. Bioarchaeology and the Lived Experience in 18th Century Louisbourg. UNB Biology Seminar Series, Fredericton, NB.
May 2022. The Benefit of Bioarchaeology: An Overview of the Rochefort Point Cemetery Excavation at the 18th Century Fortress of Louisbourg. UNBREA, Fredericton, NB.
July 2020. Bioarchaeology at the Fortress of Louisbourg: A 2017-2019 Excavation and Research Review. Parks Canada, TeleTalk, Online.
November 2019. Skeletal secrets: Unlocking the lived experience at the 18th century Fortress of Louisbourg, NS. Fredericton Heritage Trust, Fredericton, NB.
Sept. 2018. Coastal erosion and cemetery excavation: How a centuries old dilemma is providing new opportunities at the Fortress of Louisbourg, NS. Nova Scotia Archaeology Society Lecture, Halifax, NS.
April 2018. Saving a cemetery: Coastal erosion and bioarchaeological excavation at the 18th century Fortress of Louisbourg, NS Canada. Anthropology Talks, SUNY Oneonta Anthropology Club, Oneonta, NY.
Feb. 2018. Bioarchaeology at the Fortress of Louisbourg. Museum of Natural History, Halifax, NS. Organized and hosted by Parks Canada.
Jan. 2018. Skeletal Storytelling: A Bioarchaeological Exploration of the Fortress of Louisbourg and the Lived Experience in 18th Century Atlantic Canada. American Institute of Archaeology Lecture, University of New Brunswick
Sept. 2017. Skeletons in the Soil: A Bioarchaeological Exploration of the Fortress of Louisbourg, N.H.S., Fredericton Golden Club, Fredericton, NB
Publications and presentations
Publications
Hughes N, Scott A. 2024. Proteins and our past: An exploration of human bone protein from the 18th-century Fortress of Louisbourg, Nova Scotia and its potential applications in bioarchaeological research. Canadian Journal of Archaeology (in press)
Hughes N, Scott A, Pitcher D. 2024. Surgery under siege: A case study of leg amputation in 18th century Louisbourg, Nova Scotia, Canada. International Journal of Paleopatholology, 44:112-118.
Scott, A, Betsinger T, MacInnes S, Hughes N, Fonzo M, Forbes M. 2023. A colony without a cough? A bioarchaeological exploration of tuberculosis at the eighteenth-century Fortress of Louisbourg, Canada. Historical Archaeology, 57:315–335.
Scott A, MacInnes S, Hughes N, Munkittrick J, Harris A, Grimes V. 2023. A Bioarchaeological Exploration of Adolescent Males at the 18th Century Fortress of Louisbourg, Nova Scotia, Canada. Bioarchaeology International (special issue) 7(2):146-172.
Scott A, Danforth M, MacInnes S, Hughes N, Fonzo M. 2020. Colonial urbanism: A comparative exploration of skeletal stress in two 18th century North American French colonies. Bioarchaeology of Urbanization: The Biological, Demographic, and Social Consequences of Living in Cities. Betsinger T, DeWitte S, editors. New York: Springer Press, pp. 275-294.
Fonzo M, Scott A, Duffy M. 2020. With people came parasites: An examination of human intestinal parasites and urbanization at the 18th century Fortress of Louisbourg. Bioarchaeology of Urbanization: The Biological, Demographic, and Social Consequences of Living in Cities. Betsinger T, DeWitte S, editors. New York: Springer Press, pp. 295-316.
Scott A, Morgan J, Nicholson, Fonzo M, Hinton J. 2018. “Whare ye ennemy used to bury there dead”: A New Englander burial at the eighteenth-century Fortress of Louisbourg in Atlantic Canada. International Journal of Osteoarchaeology. DOI: 10.1002/oa.2719
Scott A, Ebert D, Fonzo M, Hinton J, Georg RB. 2018. Burying the Karrer: A case study exploration of the mercenary regiment at the 18th-century Fortress of Louisbourg, NS. Bioarchaeology International. DOI: 10.5744/bi.2018.1017
Conference presentations
Hughes N, Scott A, Pitcher D. 2022. Surgery Under Siege: A case study of leg amputation at the 18th century Fortress of Louisbourg. Canadian Association for Biological Anthropology Conference, Saskatoon, SK.
Forbes M, Scott A, Rassmussen K. 2022. Getting freaky at the Fortress? An examination of venereal syphilis and medicinal mercury treatments at the 18th century Fortress of Louisbourg, Nova Scotia, Canada. Canadian Association for Biological Anthropology Conference, Saskatoon, SK.
Ledger M, Scott A. 2022. Beaver fever at Louisbourg: Earliest evidence for Giardia infection in Canada in an individual buried at the 18th C. Fortress of Louisbourg. Canadian Association for Biological Anthropology Conference, Saskatoon, SK.
Burgess C, Scott A. Butler K. 2022. Ground-truthing in Bioarchaeology: A preliminary examination of geophysical applications using magnetic susceptibility at the 18th century Rochefort Point Cemetery. Canadian Association for Biological Anthropology Conference, Saskatoon, SK.
Munkittrick J, Scott A, Grimes V. 2022. Integration of Pb isotope ratios in ceramic glazes and tooth enamel from 17th to 19th century North Atlantic fishery populations. Canadian Association for Biological Anthropology Conference, Saskatoon, SK.
Pitcher D, MacInnes S, Scott A. 2022. Unearthing the Untold: The impact of bioarchaeological evidence on interpretation at the Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic Site. Interpretation Canada National Conference. Halifax, NS.
Scott A, MacInnes S, Hughes N, Grimes V, Munkittrick J. 2021. An Absent Adolescence? A Bioarchaeological Approach to Understanding the Teenaged Lived Experience in 18th Century Atlantic Canada. Emerging Adolescence Workshop. Virtual.
Teeter M, Scott A, Szpak P. 2021. Keratin, Collagen, and Dentine, Oh My! A Preliminary Isotopic Analysis of Three Tissue Types at the 18th Century Fortress of Louisbourg, NS. Canadian Association for Physical Anthropology Conference, Hamilton, ON.
Munkittrick J, Scott A, Grimes V. 2020. Childhood lead exposure in 18th-19th century North Atlantic fisheries. Canadian Association for Physical Anthropology Conference, Virtual.
Scott A, MacInnes S, Pitcher D, Grimes V, Munkittrick J, Garlie M, Moran M, Fonzo M. The Rochefort Point Cemetery: An interdisciplinary approach to understanding mortuary patterns and cemetery composition at the 18th century Fortress of Louisbourg. Canadian Association of Physical Anthropology Conference, Banff, AB.
Hughes N, Scott A. 2019. Proteins in Play: Testing Osteocalcin Variability between Different Skeletal Sampling Sites. Canadian Association of Physical Anthropology Conference, Banff, AB.
Garlie M, Grimes V, Scott A, Munkittrick J. 2019. Block 3 and Ste. Marie: An isotopic comparison of two cemetery populations from the Fortress of Louisbourg. Canadian Association of Physical Anthropology Conference, Banff, AB.
Munkittrick J, Scott A, Grimes V. 2019. Exploring sources of lead in children during colonial settlement of Northeastern North America during the 18th and 19th centuries. UK Archaeological Sciences Conference, Manchester UK.
Fonzo M, Scott A, Duffy M. 2019. Childhood, parasites, and anemia: A case study analysis of a subadult burial from the 18th century Fortress of Louisbourg, Nova Scotia. Paleopathology Association Conference, Cleveland, OH.
Fonzo M, Scott A, Duffy M. 2019. With people, came parasites: An examination of human intestinal parasites and urbanization at the 18th century Fortress of Louisbourg. American Association for Physical Anthropology Conference, Cleveland, OH.
Scott A, Danforth M, MacInnes S, Hughes N, Fonzo M. 2019. Colonial urbanism: A comparative exploration of skeletal stress in two 18th century North American French colonies. American Association of Physical Anthropologists Conference, Cleveland, OH.
Scott A, Fonzo M (2018) From Acid to Alkaline: The Variation in Soil pH at the 18th Century Rochefort Point Cemetery and its Relationship to Mortuary Practices and Previous Site Use. Canadian Association for Physical anthropology Conference, London, ON.
Munkittrick J, Grimes V, Scott A (2018) Investigating Childhood Lead Exposure of early 18th Century French Inhabitants from the Fortress of Louisbourg, NS. Canadian Association of Physical Anthropology Conference, London, ON.
Fonzo M, Scott A, Duffy M (2018) A Preliminary Analysis of Parasite Egg Recovery Methods from Pelvic Soil Samples. Canadian Association of Physical Anthropology Conference, London, ON.
Moran M, Scott A (2018) Reconstructing Rochefort Point: Methodologies for Exploring Shared Cemetery and Settlement Space at the Eighteenth-Century Fortress of Louisbourg. Council for Northeast Historical Archaeology Conference, Halifax, NS.
Hinton J, Munkittrick J, Grimes V, Scott A (2018) Detecting vitamin D deficiency: radiographic assessment of two archaeological skeletal assemblages from the Avalon Peninsula, Newfoundland. Council for Northeast Historical Archaeology Conference, Halifax, NS.
Scott A, Ebert D, Fonzo M, Hinton J, Georg RB (2017) Buttons and bone: Burial context and individuality at the 18th century Fortress of Louisbourg, NS. Canadian Association for Physical Anthropology Conference, Edmonton, AB.
Hinton J, Scott A. New Foundations: A Skeletal Exploration of the First French Inhabitants of the Fortress of Louisbourg, NS. Canadian Association for Physical Anthropology Conference, Edmonton, AB.
