Dr. Adrian Burke

Biography

Adrian L. Burke is a full professor at the Université de Montréal, specializing in the archaeology of pre-contact Indigenous societies in northeastern North America. His primary research interests lie in lithic technology, particularly focusing on raw material use, quarry exploitation, and material exchange among different groups. His work includes the physico-chemical characterization of archaeological materials such as rock, metal, and glass using analytical methods developed in physics, chemistry, engineering, and geology commonly referred to as archaeometry. Recently, he has conducted fieldwork in Lennoxville, located in Estrie, which is the ancestral territory of the Ndakina from the W8banaki nation. He has collaborated with Indigenous communities in Quebec on archaeological projects for over a decade. His ongoing research addresses the use of lithic raw materials during prehistory in Southern Quebec, Ontario, the Maritime Provinces, New York, New England, Nunavik, and the Northwest Territories, as well as in Mexico, Portugal, and southern France. Adrian leads the Archéoscience-Archéosociale research group, which has received funding from the FRQSC, and is involved in various collaborative projects focusing on Indigenous interactions and environmental archaeology.

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