Canadian Journal of Archaeology > Volume 29 • Issue 1 • 2005

Volume 29 • Issue 1 • 2005

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		Causes of Toolkit Variation Among Hunter-Gatherers: A Test of Four Competing Hypotheses – Mark Collard, Michael Kemery, and Samantha Banks
		An Alternative Model for First Nations Involvement in Resource Management Archaeology – Rick Budhwa
		Form and Function of Projectile Points and the Trajectory of Newfoundland Prehistory – John C. Erwin, Donald H. Holly Jr., Stephen H. Hull, and Timothy L. Rast
		Fish Weirs, Salmon Productivity, and Village Settlement in an Upper Skeena River Tributary, British Columbia – Paul Prince
		Multidimensional Scaling of Northwest Coast Faunal Assemblages: A Case Study from Southern Haida Gwaii, British Columbia – Trevor J. Orchard and Terence Clark
		An Arrow from the Tsitsutl Glacier, British Columbia – Grant Keddie and Erle Nelson

		After Captain Cook: The Archaeology of the Recent Indigenous Past in Australia (Rodney Harrison and Christine Williamson, editors) – reviewed by Bill Angelbeck
		Zooarchaeology and Conservation Biology (R. Lee Lyman and Kenneth P. Cannon, editors) – reviewed by Jonathan Driver
		Miskwabik, Metal of Ritual: Metallurgy in Precontact Eastern North America (Amelia M. Trevelyan) – reviewed by William A. Fox
		A Passion for the Past: Papers in Honour of James F. Pendergast (James V. Wright and Jean-Luc Pilon, editors) – reviewed by Mima Kapches
		First Peoples in Canada (Alan D. McMillan and Eldon Yellowhorn) – reviewed by David Meyer
		Archaeology on the Edge: New Perspectives from the Northern Plains (Brian Kooyman and Jane Kelley, editors) – reviewed by Laurie Milne
		Birds from the Ground: The Record of Archaeology in Ontario (Douglas C. Sadler and Howard G. Savage) – reviewed by Frances L. Stewart
		Islands on the Plains: Ecological, Social, and Ritual Use of Landscapes (Marcel Kornfeld and Alan J. Osborn, editors) – reviewed by Michael C. Wilson

On mtDNA and Archaeological Ethics

George P. Nicholas

The title of Paul Gauguin’s painting of a South Pacific idyll, “Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?” (1897)¹, captures the essential quest of anthropology. Just who are we? This is the key question at the core of anthropological inquiry. Physical anthropologists investigating biological variation, ethnographers examining diversity in the social organization, and archaeologists excavating evidence of past human behaviors that may, or may not, have modern analogs—all are ultimately after understanding what makes us human (and in so many different ways).