The Archaeologist's Laboratory

This channel covers activities that archaeologists carry out in the lab or fieldwork, tips for archaeology grad students and young professionals, and other archaeological topics that interest me. Topics include lab health and safety, care and handling of artifacts, and making measurements on stone tools, pottery, metal, bone and shell artifacts, to plant and animal remains, geoarchaeology, stratigraphy, dating, artifact classification, artifact illustration, and landscape archaeology. Many of the videos complement my book, The Archaeologist's Laboratory (Springer, 2020) and were originally prepared for students in my course at University of Toronto. Since then, I've added material on other topics, including archaeological survey, Near Eastern Neolithic sites, pseudoarchaeology, thesis-writing and professional development for archaeology grad students, numismatics, and historical archaeology. In 2024 I started a series on historical walks in Toronto, which I hope to expand in 2026.