Publications
Graduate students Mitchell Ma and Susannah Clinker published a piece entitled Excavation and Education: Lessons Learned as Teaching Assistants in the Schreiber Wood Project Field School on the Teaching Anthropology Blog. (September 11, 2024)
The Archaeological Field School Comes to Campus: 10 Years of the Schreiber Wood Project at the University of Toronto Mississauga by Michael Brand, Trevor Orchard, and Sarah Ranlett appears in the Fall 2022 issue of ArchNotes, the newsletter of the Ontario Archaeological Society.
Uncovering the History of UTM: A reflection on advanced archaeological fieldwork by Kiara Kim appears in the Fall 2021 issue of Young Anthropology.
Conference presentations
Annual Symposium of the Ontario Archaeological Society (OAS)
Annual Meeting of the Canadian Archaeological Association (CAA)
Annual Meeting of the Council for Northeast Historical Archaeology (CNEHA)
Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association for Biological Anthropology (CABA)
Presentations at the UTM Anthropology Conference
The conference is held at the U of T Mississauga campus.
2025
- Oral presentation: “Planting a Seed: Considering Variability and Interpretive Potential of Late-19th to Early-20th Century Flowerpots from Mississauga, Ontario” (MacKayla Perry-Wessler) *Awarded second place in the best paper competition.
- Intrusive or interpretively useful: a greater insight to assemblages of small fauna in late 19th century Mississauga (Carly Ward)
2024
- An Overview of the Metal Assemblage of the Schreiber Wood Project (Gani Cabezas) *Winner of best poster award at the conference.
Presentations at the Annual Symposium of the Ontario Archaeological Society (OAS)
2025
The symposium was held in Windsor, Ontario.
- Oral presentation: “Training the next generation of heritage practitioners: Perspectives from the Schreiber Wood Project” (Michael Brand, Mackenzie Greenhalgh, Natasa Zdjelar, Sarah Ranlett, and Trevor J. Orchard)
- What’s in the Medicine Chest? An Overview of the Schreiber Wood Project Medical Assemblage (Nini Ning)
- Rabbits, and voles, and frogs, oh my! Considering assemblages of small fauna in late 19th century Mississauga (Carly Ward)
2024
The symposium was held in Thunder Bay, Ontario.
- Oral presentation: “The Schreiber Wood Project: Teaching Archaeology, Facilitating Student Research and Engagement, and Understanding a Late-19th Century Euro-Canadian Occupation in Mississauga” (Michael Brand, Trevor J. Orchard, and Sarah Ranlett)
- Earthly possessions: Analyzing terracotta flowerpot variation from late 19th-century Mississauga (MacKayla Perry-Wessler)
- An assemblage of collaboration: A Student perspective on the Schreiber Wood Project (Carly Ward)
2023
The symposium was held in Southampton, Ontario.
- An Archaeological Perspective on Dental Hygiene Practices in Ontario From Late 19th and Early 20th Century (Sarah Sayeed)
2022
The symposium was held at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Burlington, Ontario.
- Considering Childhood Experiences in a Late 19th Century Settler-Colonial Household: Children’s Toys from the Schreiber Wood Project (Leann Ling) *Winner of OAS Best Student Poster award.
- Glass Vessels from a Late 19th – Early 20th Century Residential Site: A Preliminary Study (Ya Qi Mo, Nina Le, Kiara Y.R. Kim, Sarah Ranlett, Michael Brand, Trevor J. Orchard)
2020
A virtual poster session included a series of four posters by UTM students, faculty, and staff exploring ongoing research on collections generated by the Schreiber Wood Project, which encompasses both the annual UTM Anthropology archaeological field school and the ongoing departmental work-study program.
- Facilitating Student Research on Field School Collections (Sarah Ranlett, Michael Brand, and Trevor Orchard)
- Ceramic Assemblage and Decorative Typology (Natasa Zdjellar, Cinda Johnson, S. Ranlett, M. Brand, and T. Orchard)
- Life at a Glance as Seen through Ceramics (Mahalia Johnna Baguio, C. Johnson, S. Ranlett, M. Brand, and T. Orchard) *Winner of OAS Best Student Poster award.
- Playing through History (Andrew Dasilva Furtado, S. Ranlett, M. Brand, and T. Orchard)
Presentations at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Archaeological Association (CAA)
2025
The conference was held in St. John's, Newfoundland.
- Oral presentation: “Unanticipated Lessons in Public Outreach from the Schreiber Wood Project: Weaving Student Research into Broader Narratives” (Trevor J. Orchard, Michael Brand, and Sarah Ranlett)
2024
The conference was held in-person in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
- Setting the Table: Euro-Canadian table-setting Traditions in Mississauga, Ontario, from the Early 20th Century (Lilly Maher) *Winner of 2024 CAA Best Undergraduate Student Poster award.
- Reconciling more than a decade of field-school stratigraphic drawings: A case study using AutoCAD (Mark B Heffernan)
- An Overview of the Metal Assemblage of the Schreiber Wood Project (Gani Cabezas)
- Exploring the Diversity of Late 19th to Early 20th Century Lighting Devices in Ontario (Karol Guayasamin)
- The Schreiber Wood Project: Documenting and Understanding a Late-19th Century Euro-Canadian House Foundation (AjGw-535) in Mississauga (Christopher Kiru, Kayla Mander)
2023
The conference was held in Membertou, Nova Scotia.
- The Schreiber Wood Project: Late 19th and Early 20th century Dental Hygiene Practices in Ontario (Sarah Sayeed)
- Reconstructing Roadways of a Late 19th to Mid-20th Century Settler Site in Southern Ontario (Aliya Moore, Sarah Sayeed, Leann Ling) *Winner of 2023 CAA Best Undergraduate Student Poster award.
2022
The conference was held in a hybrid format in Edmonton, with students participating virtually.
- (Re-)Imagining the Schreiber Wood Landscape: Digital Reconstructions of 19th Century Settler Occupations at the University of Toronto Mississauga (Mahalia Johnna Baguio, Ya Qi Mo) *Winner of CAA Best Undergraduate Student Poster award.
- 3D Reconstruction of A Cultural Landscape: Interpreting Shadowmere of the Schreiber Estate (Kiara Kim, Yunfei Lin)
Presentations at the Annual Meeting of the Council for Northeast Historical Archaeology (CNEHA)
2024
The annual meeting was held in New Haven, Connecticut.
- The Schreiber Wood Project at University of Toronto Mississauga: An Historical Southern Ontario Residential Landscape through the Lens of an On-Campus Field School (Sarah Ranlett, Michael Brand, Trevor Orchard)
Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association for Biological Anthropology (CABA)
2025
The annual meeting was held in Victoria, British Columbia.
- Disease control or simply felines: Domestic cats as animal technologies used by the Schreiber family (Carly Ward)
