David G. Smith, PhD
Office: Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto, Mississauga.
Building: 3359 Mississauga Road, Mississauga, Ontario
Biography:
Professor David G. Smith graduated from The University of Western Ontario, Canada in 1975 with an Honours BA in Anthropology. He completed his MA at McGill University in 1980 and was awarded his Ph.D. Anthropology in 1987, also from McGill University. He currently holds the position of Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology the University of Toronto, Mississauga, in the city of Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.
Teaching Areas:
Archaeology of Eastern North American, World Prehistory, Archaeological Theory, Origins of Food Production
Research Interests:
Origins of Agriculture in the Northeast Woodlands, stylistic change in Northeast Woodland ceramics, Environmental Archaeology in Tropical & Continental regions, and Archaeological method and theory
Publications:
Roksandic, Mirjana (lead author), William Mark Buhay, Roberto Rodríguez Suárez, Yadira Chinique des Armas, Matthew C. Peros, Ivan Roksandic, Luis M. Vieira, Carlos Arredondo, Antonio Martinez Fuentes, David Gray Smith (senior author) 2015 Radiocarbon and stratigraphic chronology of Canímar Abajo, Matanzas, Cuba. Radiocarbon 57(5):1-9.
Smith, David Gray in press People and Plants in the Pre-contact Caribbean: The View from Canímar Abajo, Cuba. Solicited book chapter to be included in Cuban Archaeology in the Circum-Caribbean Context, edited by I. Rodsandic. University Press of Florida, Gainsville.
Chinique de Armas, Yadira, Mirjana Roksandic, Roberto Rodríguez Suárez, David Gray Smith, William M. Buhay In press Isotopic evidence of variations in subsistence strategies and food consumption patterns among “fisher-gatherer” populations of western Cuba. Submitted to Cuban Archaeology in the Circum-Caribbean Context, edited by I. Rodsandic. University Press of Florida, Gainsville.
Chinique de Armas, Yadira, William M. Buhay, Roberto Rodríguez Suárez, Sheahan Bestel, David Gray Smith, Stephanie D. Mowat, Mirjana Roksandic 2015 Starch analysis and isotopic evidence of consumption of cultigens among fisher-gatherers in Cuba: The archaeological site of Canímar Abajo, Matanzas. Journal of Archaeological Science 58:121-132.
Buhay, William M., Y. Chinique de Armas, Roberto Rodríguez Suárez, Carlos Arredondo, David Gray Smith, Stephanie D. Armstrong, Mirjana Roksandic 2013 A preliminary carbon and nitrogen collagen isotopic investigation on skeletal remains recovered from a Pre-Columbian burial site, Matanzas Province, Cuba. Applied Geochemistry 52:76-84.
Haines, Helen R., David G. Smith, David Galbraith and Thys Theysmeyer 2011 The Point of Popularity: A Summary of 10,000 years of Human Activity at the Princess Point Promontory, Cootes Paradise Marsh, Hamilton, Ontario. Canadian Journal of Archaeology 35(2):232-257.
Smith, David G. 2010 The Consequences of Early Food Production: Three Recent Contributions. Reviews in Anthropology 39(2): 91–107.