Losey, Robert J.
Associate Professor
Research Associate, National Museum of Natural History.
Contact Information:
On sabbatical, 2011-2012
Office: 13-8 Tory Bldg.
Office phone: 492-2028
E-mail: robert.losey@ualberta.ca
Web: https://sites.google.com/a/ualberta.ca/ancient-dogs-of-baikal/
Mailing address: 13-15 HM Tory
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta
Canada T6G 2H4
Degrees:
Ph.D. (Archaeology), University of Oregon
MS (Archaeology), University of Oregon
BS (Anthropology), Kansas State University
Research Interests:
Zooarchaeology, Northwest Coast archaeology and ethnography, Siberia, mortuary archaeology, animism, fishing, archaeology of natural distasters
Teaching Areas:
Archaeology, archaeological theory, zooarchaeology, Northwest Coast
Courses:
Archaeology of Dogs
Introduction to Archaeology
Northwest Coast Archaeology
Archaeology of Animals in Ritual
Archaeology of Aquatic Adaptations
World Prehistory
Modern Archaeological Theory
Zooarchaeology
Selected Recent Publications:
Losey, R.J. V.I. Bazaliiskii, S. Garvie-Lok, M. Germonpré, J.A. Leonard, A.L. Allen, M.A. Katzenberg, M.V. Sablin. 2011. Canids as persons: Early Neolithic dog and wolf burials, Cis-Baikal, Siberia. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 30:174-189.
Nomokonova, T., O.I. Goriunova, R.J. Losey, and N.A. Savel’ev. 2011 Bukhta Ulan-Khada v Holocene: zooarcheologicheskii analiz faunisticheskikh ostatkov (ozero Baikal). Archaeology, Ethnology, and Anthropology of Eurásia 46(2):30-36.
Nomokonova, T., R.J. Losey, A.W. Weber, and O.I. Goriunova. 2010. Late Holocene
subsistence practices among Cis-Baikal pastoralists, Siberia: zooarchaeological insights from
Sagan-Zaba II. Asian Perspectives 49(1):157-179.
Nomokonova, T.IU, Losey, R.J., and O.I. Goriunova. 2009. Rekonstruktsiia rybnogo promysla na ozere Baikal (analiz ikhtiofauny so stoianki Ityrkhei) [Reconstruction of fish procurement on Lake Baikal (analyses of ichtyofauna from Ityrkhei site]. Rossiiskaia Arkheologiia (Journal of Russian Archaeology) 3: 12–21 [In Russian].
Losey, Robert J., 2010, Animism as means of exploring archaeological fishing structures on Willapa Bay, Washington, USA. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 20:17-32.
Moss, Madonna L. and Losey, Robert J., 2010, Native American use of seals, sea lions, and sea otter in estuaries of northern Oregon and southern Washington. In T.J. Braje and T.C. Rick, Eds., Human Impacts On Seals, Sea Lions and Sea Otters: Integrating Archaeology and Ecology in the Northeast Pacific, University of California Press, pp. 167-195.
Losey, Robert J., T. Nomokonova, and O.I. Goriunova, 2008, Fishing Ancient Lake Baikal, Siberia: Inferences from the Reconstruction of Harvested Perch (Perca fluviatilis) Size. Journal of Archaeological Science 38:577-590
Losey, Robert J. and Dongya Yang, 2007, Opportunistic whale hunting on the southern Northwest Coast: ancient DNA, artifact, and ethnographic evidence. American Antiquity 72(4):657-676.
Losey, Robert J., 2007, Native American Vulnerability and Resiliency to Great Cascadia Earthquakes along the Oregon Coast. Oregon Historical Quarterly 108(2):201-214.
Moss, Madonna L., Dongya Y. Yang, Seth D. Newsome, Camilla F. Speller, Iain McKechnie, Alan D. McMillan, Robert J. Losey, and Paul L. Koch, 2006, Historical Ecology and Biogeography of North Pacific Pinnipeds: Isotopes and Ancient DNA from Three Archaeological Assemblages. Journal of Coastal and Island Archaeology 1:165-190.
Losey, Robert J., 2005, House Remains at the Netarts Sandspit Village, Oregon Coast. Journal of Field Archaeology 30(4):401-417.
Losey, Robert J., 2005, Earthquakes and Tsunamis as Elements of Environmental Disturbance on the Northwest Coast of North America. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 24:101-116.
Ludwin, R.S., Dennis, R., Carver, D., McMillan, A.D., Losey, R.J. Clague, J., Jonientz-Trisler, C., Bowechop, J., Wray, J., and James, K. 2005 Dating the AD 1700 Cascadia Earthquake: Great Coastal Earthquakes in Native Stories. Seismological Research Letters 76(2):140-148.
Losey, Robert J., Yamadas, Sylvia, and Largaespada, Leah, 2004, Late-Holocene Dungeness Crab (Cancer magister) Harvest at an Oregon Coast Estuary. Journal of Archaeological Science 31:1603-1612.
Losey, Robert J., 2003, Sea-Level History and the Archaeology of the Northern Oregon Coast: A Case Study from Netarts Bay. Journal of Northwest Anthropology 37(2):239-259.
Losey, Robert J., Stenholm, Nancy, Whereat-Philips, Patty, and Vallianatos, Helen, 2003, Exploring the use of red elderberry (Sambucus racemosa) fruit on the southern Northwest Coast of North America. Journal of Archaeological Science 30(6):695-707.
Losey, Robert J. and Eleanor Power, 2005, Shellfish Remains from the Par-Tee Site (35-CLT-20), Seaside, Oregon: Making Sense of a Biased Sample. Journal of Northwest Anthropology 39(1):1-20.