Belinda Riehl-Fitzsimmons and Dr. Karin Steuber
Learn what lies beneath our feet before Saskatoon became a city. Join us as we explore some of the city’s fascinating archaeological sites, from well-known locations to hidden gems. The Bridging Time project highlights ten archaeological sites within city limits, where you can walk, bike, or drive to learn about the people who inhabited the area we now call home. From Temperance Colony settlers to shipwrecks, bison kill sites, and campsites, join us as we uncover over 10,000 years of human history beneath the City of Bridges.
As a Saskatchewan farmer’s daughter, my connection to the land began early in life. Exploring freshly plowed fields, I would find broken china, bottles and animal bones left by early homesteaders. These, along with pretty or unique rocks, became part of my childhood collections. Always curious, I often wondered what stories these items could tell if only I knew more about them. After attaining a Bachelor of Arts degree in Anthropology and Archaeology in 1990, I was employed in the consulting industry off and on for 16 years while raising three children before being hired as the Business Administrator in the fall of 2006. Since then, I have also been the editor of Saskatchewan Archaeology Quarterly (formerly the Saskatchewan Archaeological Society Newsletter). I am now the Executive Assistant at the Saskatchewan Archaeological Society. I enjoy spending time working in my garden, reading and most recently, watching the next generation of our family grow.
Karin is the Interim Executive Director for the Saskatchewan Archaeological Society and an adjunct professor with the Department of Anthropology at the University of Saskatchewan. She has been an archaeologist for over 20 years working across the Canadian Plains with a focus on lithic technologies. She originally did her undergraduate degree in Edmonton at the University of Alberta hoping to become an Egyptologist or to work in the Mediterranean. However, after doing a field school in Plains archaeology near the town of Bodo, Alberta she realized that North American archaeology was her passion. Karin came to the University of Saskatchewan to do her Master’s degree in archaeology. From there, she decided to continue and completed her PhD on stone tools and trade routes across the Plains region.
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