SCAPE - the Study of Cultural Adaptations in the Prairie Ecozone.

The project titled "Changing Opportunities & Challenges: Human-Environment Interaction in the Canadian Prairies Ecozone" has been awarded a five-year $2.5 million grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council through the Major Collaborative Research Initiatives program. The participating institutions are also providing support for the project.

The project is examining past Human-environmental interactions within the Canadian Prairies Ecozone, localities that exhibit exceptional physiographic and ecological diversity.

SCAPE is a multi-disciplinary project representing a wide range of research expertise including: archaeology, ethnohistory, geoarchaeology, geomatics, paleobotany, soils science and oral traditions.

The SCAPE project is examining past Human-environmental interactions within the Canadian Prairies Ecozone. The study is a multi-disciplinary project representing a wide range of research expertise including: archaeology, ethnohistory, geomatics, geoarchaeology, paleobotany, soils science and oral traditions.

The project methodology is building upon archaeological research and uses a variety of information sources including state-of-the-art Geographical Information Systems (GIS) technology, paleobotanical data, soil sciences data, and archival research. An important aspect of the research is the gathering of oral traditions preserved by Aboriginal Elders. For details about the project, click on Objectives.

This integrated research project is a new and different approach to answering questions about human lifeways because it incorporates the research skills of many different disciplines and covers a wide geographical area.