Curriculum Vitae

Education

1985: Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Michigan

1977: M.A., Anthropology, University of Alberta

1974: B.A. (with High Honours), Anthropology & Archaeology, University of Saskatchewan

Employment History

2012-2017 (Concurrent) Landrex Distinguished Professor, Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta.

2008-Present (Concurrent) Executive Director, Institute of Prairie Archaeology, University of Alberta

2007-Present: Professor, Northern Plains Archaeology, Department of Anthropology, University of Alberta

2000-2007: Manager, Archaeology & History (Provincial Archaeologist), Heritage Resource Management Branch, Alberta Community Development

1991-2000: Assistant Director (Provincial Archaeologist), Provincial Museum of Alberta

1986-1991: Director (Provincial Archaeologist), Archaeological Survey of Alberta

1985-1986: Head, Research Section, Archaeological Survey of Alberta

1979-1985: Northeastern Archaeologist, Research Section, Archaeological Survey of Alberta

HONOURS & AWARDS

2014 Named Adjunct Professor, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Saskatchewan.

Invited to be the 2015 University Colorado Distinguished Lecturer in Archaeology (with faculty, general public and graduate student lectures).

2013 Rangeland Research Institute, Faculty of Agriculture, Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Alberta research grant for baseline archaeological research on the Kinsella and Mattheis Ranches. $20,000 over two years.

2012 Landrex Distinguished Professor, Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta: a five year appointment with total dedicated research funding of $250,000.

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. Apachean Origins: New Explorations of the Canadian Heritage of A. D. 13th Century Dene at Promontory Point, Utah. (Four years.) Principal Investigator.

Three years of Faculty of Arts operational funding for the Institute of Prairie Archaeology.

Adopted by the Blackfoot, by Piikani Beaver Bundle and Horn Society ceremonialist Allan Pard and Kainai Horn Society member Blair First Rider, and given the name Awoutaan ("Shield") in recognition of efforts to protect archaeological and cultural sites significant to the Blackfoot.

2010 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. Apachean Origins: Exploring the Canadian Heritage of A. D. 13th Century Dene at Promontory Point, Utah. Principal Investigator.

2009 Guest of honour of Blackfoot First Nations, celebrating the Tenth Anniversary of passage of First Nations Sacred Ceremonial Objects Repatriation Act of Alberta. July Ceremony.

2008 University of Alberta Endowment Fund for the Future.

1992 Feasibility Study Grant, Canadian Museums Association, to develop a research and exhibit proposal for the excavation of Late Palaeolithic (20,000-50,000 years of age) and Quaternary sites in Heilongjiang, China (Bridge of the Black Dragon Project, $42,000). With Dr. B. McGillivray, Assistant Director, Provincial Museum of Alberta.

1986 Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies Distinguished Dissertation Award, University of Michigan

1978 Tuition Scholarship, Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Fellowship

1977 Canada Council Doctoral Fellowship

Recent Conference Presentations

2015 Collections, Corridors and Clusters: Paleoindian Research in Alberta. Invited presentation for the 40th Anniversary Annual General Meeting of the Archaeological Society of Alberta, May 8-10, Olds College Campus, Olds, Alberta.

Mobility, Exchange, and the Fluency of Games: Promontory in a Broader Sociodemographic Setting. Invited presentation for the session Games People Play: Prehistoric Games of Indigenous North America, 80th Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco, California, April 15–19. With Gabriel Yanicki.

Indiana Jones, the Temple of Doom, and “Essence of Nurhaci”—the Real Story. Invited presentation for the Strathcona Archaeological Society Series “Diggin” Up the Past,” March 6, 2015, Telus World of Science, Edmonton, Alberta.

The Ninth Clan−Exploring Apachean Origins in the Promontory Caves, Utah. Distinguished Lecture (Public), Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado, Boulder, January 24.

Promontory Point−Implications of a High Fidelity Archaeological Record for Apachean Migration. Distinguished Lecture (Faculty), Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado, Boulder, January 23.

2014 Something Old, Something New…Exploring High Fidelity Archaeological Records in the Promontory Caves, Utah. Prepared for the Symposium Seeking Shelter from the Sun: Recent Cave and Rock Shelter Research in the Great Basin, chaired by Geoffrey Smith & Danielle Felling, 79^th Annual Meeting, Society for American Archaeology, Austin, Texas, April 23-27, 2014.

Promontory on the Plains: An Examination of Material Culture Similarities between the Great Basin and Eastern Colorado and the Implications for Apachean Migration. Colorado Council of Profession Archaeologists Conference, March 20-23, 2014, Glenwood Springs, Colorado. (Kevin Gilmore, John W. Ives, and Sean Larmore.)

The Ninth Clan−Exploring Apachean Origins in the Promontory Caves, Utah. Invited colloquium, Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University, January 9, 2014.

2013 Vectors, Vestiges and Valhallas—Earliest Human Presence in Alberta at the End of the Ice Age. 20^th Anniversary Time Travellers International Lecture Series in Archaeology. November 7, 2013, Royal Alberta Museum, Edmonton. (Invited).

Vectors, Vestiges and Valhallas—Rethinking the Corridor. Paleoamerican Odyssey Conference, October 17-19, 2013. Santa Fe, New Mexico. With Duane Froese, Kisha Supernant, and Gabriel Yanicki, University of Alberta. (Plenary Speaker).

Paleoindian Social Landscapes—Thought Models for Kinship in Unique Demographic Settings. Paleoamerican Odyssey Conference, October 17-19, 2013. Santa Fe, New Mexico. With Sunday Eiselt, Southern Methodist University. (Poster).

Promontory on the Plains: An Examination of Material Culture Similarities between the Great Basin and Eastern Colorado and the Implications for Apachean Migration. Plains Anthropological Conference, October 3-5, 2013, Fort Collins, Colorado. (Kevin Gilmore, John W. Ives, and Sean Larmore.)

Natural and Social Landscapes in the Terminal Pleistocene Archaeological Record of the Corridor Region. Canadian Quaternary Association (CANQUA) Meetings, August 18-24, 2013, Edmonton, Alberta. (Invited Session Lead Speaker).

Moccasin Biographies—Stories the Promontory Moccasins Tell. Dene Languages Conference, June 12-14,2013, Tsuut’ina Reserve, Calgary, A1berta.

Simulation Curriculum, Stone Features, Subsurface Testing, and Sand Dunes: Year 1 of Archaeological Research at the Mattheis Ranch. Mattheis Research Update, Faculty of Agriculture, Life and Environmental Sciences, Duchess Community Hall, Duchess, Alberta, April 15, 2013. With Kisha Supernant.

The View from Promontory Point. 78th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, April 3-7, 2013. For the Symposium Current Research and Future Directions in Numic Archaeology, Ethnohistory, and Ethnography in the Rocky Mountains, Great Basin, and Southwest. Honolulu, Hawaii.

Seeing Things: How a North American Archaeologist Looks at African Wildlife and Heritage. Presented to the Strathcona Centre of the Archaeological Society of Alberta, January 27, 2013.

2012 John W. Ives, Duane Froese, Joel Janetski, Fiona Brock and Christopher Ramsey, A Large Series of AMS Ages for Promontory Caves 1 & 2. Great Basin Archaeological Conference, Lake Tahoe, October 17-20, 2012.

Michael Billinger & John W. Ives, Moccasin Biographies—Demographic Inferences from the Promontory Footwear. Great Basin Archaeological Conference, Lake Tahoe, October 17-20, 2012.

Gabriel Yanicki & John W. Ives, Mobility, Exchange, and the Fluency of Games: Promontory in a Broader Sociodemographic Setting. Great Basin Archaeological Conference, Lake Tahoe, October 17-20, 2012.

John W. Ives, Evaluating Steward’s Proposition that Apachean Ancestors Were in the Promontory Caves. Great Basin Archaeological Conference, Lake Tahoe, October 17-20, 2012.

Gabriel M. Yanicki & John W. Ives, Fluted Point Reshaping Strategies in Alberta. Plains Anthropological Conference, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, October 3-6, 2012.

John W. Ives and Gabriel Yanicki, The Sonota Term Project: Gleaning New Perspectives from Concerted Student Team Analyses. Plains Anthropological Conference, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, October 3-6, 2012.

John W. Ives and Reid Graham, New AMS Dates from Two Key Besant-Sonota Sites, Muhlbach, Alberta and Stelzer, South Dakota. Plains Anthropological Conference, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, October 3-6, 2012.

Moccasin Biographies—Inferences from Footwear in High Fidelity Archaeological Records. Frozen Pasts, 3rd International Glacial Archaeology Conference, June 3-8. Kwanlin Dün Cultural Centre Whitehorse, Yukon. With Michael Billinger, Institute of Prairie Archaeology. (Poster).

Holes in Our Moccasins, Holes in Our Moccasins… CASCA 2012—The Unexpected (Canadian Anthropological Society/La Société Canadienne d’Anthropologie), University of Alberta, May 8-11, 2012.

Holes in Our Moccasins, Holes in Our Moccasins…37^th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Society of Alberta, Lethbridge, May 4-6, 2012.

2011 Kinship, Demography and Paleoindian Modes of Colonization: Some Western Canadian Perspectives. 2^nd International Conference on Great Migrations: from Asia to America, hosted by the Harriman Institute, Columbia University and the Permanent Delegation of Kazakhstan to UNESCO and the Embassy of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the United States of America, December 1-2, 2011.

Apachean Migration in the Microcosm of a Moccasin. 69^th Annual Plains Anthropological Conference, October 26-29, 2011, Tucson, Arizona.

Organization of Paleoindian Lithic Technology in Western Canada. 69^th Annual Plains Anthropological Conference, October 26 -29, 2011, Tucson, Arizona.

Archaeological Activities, 2011: University of Alberta. 36th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Society of Alberta, Fort Edmonton, May 13-15, 2011.

"Assembling" the Paleoindian Assemblage at the Peace River Crossroads. 36th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Society of Alberta, Fort Edmonton, May 13-15, 2011

Results of the 2010 University of Alberta Archaeological Field School Conducted on Transalta's Highvale Minesite at Ahai Mneh (FiPp-33). Luncheon presentation to Transalta staff and representatives of 13 First Nations, May 12, 2011, River Cree.

With Sunday B. Eiselt. Kinship—the Unattended Dimension of Paleoindian Studies. 76th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, March 30-April 3, Sacramento, California, for the Symposium Questioning Assumptions: Celebrating the Work and Influence of John D. Speth.

Resolving the Promontory Culture Enigma. 76th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, March 29-April 3, 2011. For the Symposium Advances in Great Basin and Southwestern Archaeology: Papers in Honor of Don D. Fowler.

Results of the 2010 University of Alberta Archaeological Field School Conducted on Transalta's Highvale Minesite at Ahai Mneh (FiPp-33). Presented to Paul Band Chief and Council and Transalta staff members, February 2, 2011.

2010 Ives, John W. Living in the Moment—Northern Alberta Assemblages Reflecting Instants in Time. 43rd Annual Meeting of the Canadian Archaeological Association/Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Society of Alberta. (Session in Honour of Eugene Gryba), April 29-May 1, 2010, Calgary, Alberta.

If the Moccasin Fits—Exploring Proto-Apachean Population Structure with Promontory Cave Data. Faculty Seminar, Department of Anthropology, March 12. With Michael Billinger.

Thinking Dene Thoughts About the Earliest Human Presence in the New World. Dynamics of Hunter-Gatherer Language Change, U. S. NSF Project Workshop, University of Arizona, Tucson, March 5-7.

2009 Holes in our Stories. Reflections on Archaeological and Linguistic Information for Apachean Migration from the Canadian Subarctic. Dene Migration Workshop, Tsuut’ina First Nation/University of Alberta (Calgary Centre). September 25-27.

Archaeological, Linguistic and Genetic Evidence for Apachean Migration from the Canadian Subarctic.” Dynamics of Hunter-Gatherer Language Change, U. S. NSF Project Workshop, Austin, Texas, March 26-28.

Diné Bahane’, Primordial Time, and Apachean Migration. Faculty Seminar, Department of Anthropology, University of Alberta, January 26.

Technological Thresholds and Dene Language History.” Dynamics of Hunter-Gatherer Language Change, U. S. NSF Project Workshop, Austin, Texas, March 26-28.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Member, Advisory Council, Kule Institute for Advanced Study, University of Alberta

Member of the Senate, University of Alberta, 2010-2013.

Elected, General Faculties Council, University of Alberta, 2010-2013.

Grant Application Reviews for the National Science Foundation (Arctic Science, Linguistics, and Archaeology Divisions) (United States), National Geographic Society (United States), Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada), Canadian Circumpolar Institute, and Alberta Historical Resources Foundation.

Pre-publication review of Articles for editors of Arctic, American Antiquity, Current Anthropology, Plains Anthropologist, PNAS.

Department of Anthropology representative to the Museums and Collections Advisory Services Advisory Committee on the Return of Cultural Property, 2007-2012.

Tenure and Canada Research Chair reviews for Simon Fraser University, University of Western Ontario, University of Alaska, Purdue University, and the University of Wyoming.

External Committee Member, Unit Review of George Frison Institute of Archaeology, University of Wyoming, February-March 2009.

Workshop Co-Organizer. Dene Migration Workshop. A meeting of Canadian, American and European scholars with Navajo, Apache, various Canadian Dene community representatives. With Bruce Starlight, Tsuut’ina Gunaha Institute and Sally Rice, Department of Linguistics. Tsuut’ina First Nation/University of Alberta (Calgary Centre). September 25-27, 2009.

Design, Drafting, and Coordination of Proposal to Create an Institute of Prairie Archaeology, University of Alberta, approved by Provost May 18, 2008.

Participant, Northern Plains Typology Symposium, September 21-23, 2007, Idaho State University, Pocatello, Idaho. (An ongoing project [sponsored by the Faculties of Business and Arts and Sciences] to teach an artificial intelligence how experts reach classificatory decisions, with specific applications to Northern Plains projectile point typology.)

2005 Conference Chair for the International Plains Anthropological Conference, Edmonton, Alberta (275 delegates).

August 7, 2003, Host for reception and tour of Gallery of Aboriginal Culture, Provincial Museum of Alberta, for the Canadian Indigenous Language and Literacy Development Programme, Faculty of Education and Department of Linguistics, University of Alberta.

2003 to 2006, Member of the federal Working Group, Guidelines for the Conservation of Archaeological Sites in Canada, convened by the Archaeological Services Branch, Parks Canada

Conference & Programme Chair, 1999 24^th Annual General Meeting of the Archaeological Society of Alberta, May 14-16, Provincial Museum of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta.

Programme Chair, 1998 23^rd Annual General Meeting of the Archaeological Society of Alberta, April 24-26, Grande Prairie, Alberta.

Member of Programme Committee (Paul Minnis, University of Oklahoma, Chair), 1995 60^th Annual Meetings of the Society for American Archaeology, Minneapolis, Minnesota (1500 abstracts).

Member of the Programme Advisory Council (chaired by S. Robert Blair, CEO Emeritus, Nova Corporation of Alberta), Focusing Our Resources, A National Forum on Resource Development and Management on the Traditional First Nations Lands, April 23-26, 1995. Calgary, Alberta. Hosted by Tsuu T’ina First Nation and sponsored by PanCanadian Petroleum.

Conference Chair for the May 3-8, 1994, 27^th Annual Canadian Archaeological Association Meetings, including inaugural Archaeology Week in Alberta and Time Travellers Lecture Series. (350 delegates)

Member, Prairie Region, Aboriginal Heritage Committee, Canadian Archaeological Association.

Member (1986 to 2007), Canadian Association of Provincial and Territorial Archaeologists.

Developed and annually coordinated (1994-2007) the Royal Alberta Museum’s Time Travellers Lecture Series, with speakers including: the late Konrad Spindler (University of Innsbruck) on the “Ice Man” of the Tyrolean Alps, Jean Clottes (Special Advisor to the French Government on Rock Art) on the Palaeolithic Art in Chauvet Cave, Zahi Hawass (Director General, Egyptian Department of Antiquities, Giza Plateau) on the construction of the Pyramid of Cheops, Jeffrey Parsons (University of Michigan) on the Economic Foundations of the Aztec Empire, William Haglund (Office of the King County Medical Examiner) on the Green River Serial Killings, Christopher Chippindale (Oxford University) on Stonehenge, Richard Fox (University of South Dakota) on the Little Big Horn Battlefield, Victor Mair (University of Pennsylvania) on the Xinjiang “mummies” of northwestern China, and Peter Gesner (Tropical Museum of Queensland) on the wreck of the Pandora. Between 1994 and 2007, Time Travellers had more than 15,000 attendances, and generated more than $80,000 in revenue. Hosting Time Travellers lectures for the Royal Alberta Museum since 2007.