Jonathan FowlerAnthropology Department
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Halifax, NS B3H 3C3
DPhil (Oxford), Professor. Archaeology and colonialism; landscape archaeology; material culture and identity; archaeological geophysics; public archaeology.
Office: MS226Phone: 902-420-5631Email: jonathan.fowler@smu.ca
Selected Articles & Reports
Cornejo, Lara, Galang, Elson Ian Nyl Ebreo, Sherren, Kate, Lundholm, Jeremy van Proosdij, Danika, Balser, Wil, Bennett, Elena, Bowron, Tony M., Ellis, Kirsten, Fowler, Jonathan, Graham, Jennifer, James, Patrick, Lapen, David R., Manuel, Patricia, O’Handley, Mimi, Scott, Gavin, Wilson, Alex. 2025. “Decision-making and ecosystem service dimensions of managed dyke realignment in the complex coastal landscapes of the Bay of Fundy,” Ocean and Coastal Management, Vol. 266 (July), pp. 1-15.
Fowler, J. 2024. Book Review, The Far Northeast, Canadian Historical Review, Vol. 105, No. 2 (June), pp. 335-337.
Fowler, J. 2024. “The First Flour Mill,” Rural Delivery, Vol. 49, No. 2, pp. 32-35.
Fowler, J. 2024. “That Sinking Feeling,” Rural Delivery, Vol. 48, No. 9, pp. 31-32.
Fowler, J. 2023. Remote Sensing Field School Geophysical Surveys, 2023 Report: HRP A2023NS076. Halifax: Nova Scotia Department of Communities, Culture, Tourism and Heritage.
Fowler, J. 2023. Fort Edward Street Archaeological Resource Impact Assessment, Preliminary Testing: HRP A2023NS178. Halifax: Nova Scotia Department of Communities, Culture, Tourism and Heritage.
Fowler, J. 2022. Naught But Tradition Remains? Multi-Instrument Geophysics and the Recovery of the Landscape of Grand-Pré. ISAP News: Newsletter of the International Society for Archaeological Prospection, Vol. 76 (December), pp. 18-23.
Fowler, J. 2022. Onslow Island Cemetery Ground-Penetrating Radar Survey, HRP A2022NS109. Halifax: Nova Scotia Department of Communities, Culture, Tourism and Heritage.
Fowler, J. 2022. Fort Edward Street Archaeological Resource Impact Assessment, HRP A2022NS013. Halifax: Nova Scotia Department of Communities, Culture, Tourism and Heritage.
Fowler, J. and Lewis, R. 2022. Investigations at the Shubenacadie Indian Residential School Site: HRP A2021NS080. Halifax: Nova Scotia Department of Communities, Culture, Tourism and Heritage.
Fowler, J. 2021. The Chronicle Herald, Feb. 19.
Fowler, J. and Corbley, K. 2021. . GIM International issue 5, pp. 36-38.
Guiry, Eric, Noël, Stéphane, and Fowler, J. 2021. Archaeological herbivore δ13C and δ34S provide a marker for saltmarsh use and new insights into the process of 15N-enrichment in coastal plants. Journal of Archaeological Science vol. 125, pp. 1-9.
Fowler, J. 2020. Albion Mines Foundry Ground-Penetrating Radar Survey: HRP ANS2020100. Halifax: Nova Scotia Department of Communities, Culture, Tourism and Heritage.
Fowler, J. 2020. . CBC Nova Scotia, Sept. 27.
Fowler, J. 2020. Of Middens and Wayward Rabbits. Rural Delivery vol. 45 no. 3, September, pp. 18-20.
Fowler, J. 2020. Forests on the Ocean Floor. Atlantic Forestry Review vol. 26 no. 6, July-August, pp. 39-40.
Fowler, J. 2020. Ground-Penetrating Radar and Acadian Graves at Grand-Pré. American-Canadian Genealogist, issue 157, vol. 46, no. 1, pp. 21-26.
Fowler, J. 2020. Multi-Instrument Geophysical Survey in Horton Town Plot. Heritage Research Permit A2020NS022. Halifax: Nova Scotia Department of Communities, Culture, Tourism and Heritage.
Fowler, J. 2020. CBC Nova Scotia, Feb. 23.
Fowler, J., Robichaud, A., and Laroque, C. 2018. . Northeast Historical Archaeology vol. 47, pp. 161-86.
Books
Fowler, J. and Lockerby, E. 2025. Diaries of the Acadian Deportations Volume 2: John Winslow at Grand-Pré. Kentville: Gaspereau Press.
Fowler, J. and Lockerby, E. (forthcoming) Diaries of the Acadian Deportations Volume 2: John Winslow at Grand-Pré. Kentville: Gaspereau Press.
Erickson, Paul, and Fowler, Jonathan (eds.) 2013 . Halifax: Nimbus:
Erickson, Paul, and Fowler, Jonathan (eds.) 2010 . Halifax: Nimbus
Fowler, Jonathan and Lockerby, Earle 2013 . Kentville: Gaspereau Press.
Chapters
Fowler, Jonathan 2018 . In Symonds James and Herva, Vesa-Pekka (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Historical Archaeology. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Fowler, Jonathan and Noël, Stéphane 2017 Poetry is Always Truer than History: The Curious Parentage of Acadian Archaeology, in Brooks, A. and Mehler, N. (eds.) . Gainesville: University of Florida Press, pp. 37-68.
Fowler, Jonathan 2013 Saint Croix Island, Archaeology, and the Memory of Firsts, in Erickson, Paul, and Fowler, Jonathan (eds.) . Halifax: Nimbus, pp. 65-73.
Fowler, Jonathan 2012 From Acadians to Planters in the Grand-Pré Area: An Archaeological Perspective, in Henderson, Stephen and Robichaud, Wendy (eds.) . Fredericton: Acadiensis Press, pp. 37-61.
Fowler, Jonathan 2010 A Walk Back in Time at Grand-Pré, in Erickson, Paul, and Fowler, Jonathan (eds.) . Halifax: Nimbus, pp. 43-54.
Fowler, Jonathan and Ferguson, Rob 2010 Beneath the Blockhouse Floor, in Erickson, Paul, and Fowler, Jonathan (eds.) . Halifax: Nimbus, pp. 63-74.
Media
2023 , CBC
2021 MacLean's
2021 , CBC
2020 , Halifax Examiner 2020
2019 , The Chronicle Herald
2019 , Halifax Today
2019 , CBC News
Research
Archaeology in Acadie