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Bryan C. Gordon, Ph.D.
Curator Emeritus
Canadian Museum of Civilization
100 Laurier Street
P.O. Box 3100, Station B
Gatineau, Quebec J8X 4H2
Phone: 819-776-8195
Fax: 819-776-8209
E-mail: bryan.gordon@civilization.ca
URL: http:// www.civilization.ca/archeo/nadlok/nadloke.html

Dr. Bryan Gordon's research focuses on the archaeology and anthropology of reindeer and caribou herd followers in the north and in more southern regions during the Ice Age. He has conducted fieldwork in the northern Yukon and Mackenzie Delta, the Barren Lands and northern Saskatchewan, as well as France, far northeast European Russia, and south central China. Results of his Russian fieldwork were summarized in a keynote address on Rangifer in Kuujuaq, north Quebec, in 2000, and a paper in Khanty-Mansiisk, Siberia, in September 2002. He retired from arctic fieldwork after finding the origin of the Copper Inuit at Nadlok in 1985 (see http://www.civilization.ca/archeo/nadlok/nadloke.html).

Gordon's research interests include arctic and sub-arctic archaeology; the relationships between ancient reindeer, caribou, and bison followers and their herds; scientific applications to past cultures; and the rise of Chinese civilization.

Gordon earned a B.Sc. degree from the University of British Columbia, B.A. from the University of Washington, and a Ph.D. in Archaeology from the University of Calgary. From 1972–76, he was Arctic Archaeologist at the National Museum, from 1977–98 Curator of Arctic Archaeology (Keewatin), and from 1999 on Curator Emeritus. He is a Fellow of the Arctic Institute of North America, and has been an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University for twelve years. He speaks some Russian, French, and Spanish, has three years of training in Mandarin, and is currently in his second year of Arabic. He hopes his training in Chinese, Russian, and Arabic will allow him to explore aspects of the pre-Silk Road in Central Asia.

Gordon is interested in speaking to academic audiences, graduate seminars, and the general public. His public speaking experience includes lecturing at many professional meetings, some schools, and guiding tourists in the north. Representative lecture titles include:

• People and Rangifer: An Ancient Bond
• Barrenland Archaeology
• Herd Followers in Ice-Age France and Mesolithic Russia
• Rise of Chinese Civilization
• Solving Palimpsest Problems in Archaeological Site