Dr. Matthew Walls
Positions
Associate Professor
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Research partners
Transdisciplinary and community based partners for exploring the deep history of human-environment relationships, and how this structures the present
Learning opportunities
Graduate students with backgrounds in paleoecology, archaeology, geomatics, cognitive ethnography, and political ecology
Background
Educational Background
Doctor of Philosophy Anthropology, University of Toronto, 2014
Master of Arts Archeology, University of Calgary, 2008
Biography
Dr. Matthew Walls studies the deep history of community-environment relationships, and how people come to perceive and act together in a world that is always in flux. His work produces theory on the role of creativity in long term process, and focuses on questions that address the ecology of knowledge, how it is constructed and attuned between generations, and the dynamics of practice-based communities through time.
Dr. Walls obtained his Masters in Archeology from the University of Calgary and his PhD from the University of Toronto. He served as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford from 2014-2016, before returning to the University of Calgary as a member of faculty. He teaches a number of courses relating to archeology and particularly the archeology of the arctic and high north.
Dr. Walls’ current research projects are located within hunter-gatherer communities and he directs archaeological and ethnographic fieldwork in Greenland and Czech Republic.
Research
Participation in university strategic initiatives
Courses
| Course number | Course title | Semester |
|---|---|---|
| ARKY 423 | Arctic Archaeology | Winter 2023 |
| ARKY 70108 LEC 01 01 | Archaeology in a Changing North | 2021 |
| ARKY 531 | Cognitive Archaeology | Fall 2022 |
| ARKY 70109 LEC 02 02 | GIS in Archaeology | 2021 |
| ARKY 328/ANTH 399 | Roots of the Anthropocene | Winter 2023 |
| ANTH 39908 LEC 01 01 | Roots of the Anthropocene | 2021 |
| ARKY 205 LEC 01 01 | Ancient Peoples And Places | 2020 |
| ARKY 53107 LEC 01 01 | Adv Topics in Archaeology | 2020 |
| ARKY 531 | Archaeology and Heritage | Winter 2021 |
| ARKY 590 LEC 01 01 | Honours Thesis | 2020 |
| ARKY 590 LEC 01 01 | Honours Thesis | 2020 |
| ARKY 423 LEC | Archaeology of the Arctic | 2020 |
| ARKY 70107 LEC 01 01 | Special Topics in World ARKY | 2021 |
Projects
SSHRC Insight Grant - 2017-2022
SSHRC Insight Development Grant - 2018-2022
Publications
- Hydrological instability and archaeological impact in Northwest Greenland: Sudden mass movement events signal new concerns for circumpolar archaeology. Matthew Walls, Madisen Hvidberg, Mari Kleist, Pauline Knudsen, Pivinnguaq Morch, Gillian Taylor,. Quaternary Science Reviews. (2020)
- Managing wilderness? Holocene-scale, human-related disturbance dynamics as revealed in a remote, forested area in the Czech Republic.. Petr Pokorny, Premysl Bobek, Petr Sidea, Michaela Ptakova, Matthew Walls. The Holocene. (2022)
- From Mesolithic hunters to Iron Age herders. A unique record of woodland exploitation from eastern Central Europe (Czech Republic). Michaela Ptakova; Jan Novak; Premek Bobek; Petr Pokorny; Petr Sida; Matthew Walls; . Archaeobotany and Vegetation History. (2020)
- The bow and arrow and early human sociality: An enactive perspective on communities and technical practice in the middle stone age. Matthew Walls. Philosophy and Technology. (2019)
- Najukkami Ilisimasat Inughuarnillu Suleqateqarneq. Mari Kleist, Matthew Walls. Proceedings of the 21st Inuit Studies Conference. 49-60. Montréal, Québec. (2019)
- Making as a didactic process: Situated cognition and the chaine operatoire. Matthew Walls. Quaternary International. (2016)
- Kayak games and hunting enskilment: An archaeological consideration of sports and the situated learning of technical skills.. Matthew Walls. World Archaeology. (2012)
- 1800-kkut sioqqullugit Inughuit inuussutissarsiornerat (Greenlandic). Kayaks from NW Greenland. Frederick Larsen; Matthew Walls; Pauline Knudsen. Kalaaleq. (2016)
- Inughuit open water subsistence before the nineteenth century: New dates and questions from Washington Land Northwest Greenland. Matthew Walls, Pauline Knudsen, Frederik Larsen. American Antiquity. (2015)
- The Morris Bay Kayak: Analysis and Implications for Inughuit Subsistence in thePikialarsorsuaq Region.. Frederick Larsen; Matthew Walls; Pauline Knudsen. Arctic Anthropology. (2016)
- Wood Use and Kayak Construction: Material Selection from the Perspective of Carpentry. Matthew Walls. Inuit Studies/Etudes Inuit. (2012)
- Social aspects of kayak hunting techniques. Matthew Walls. Journal of North Atlantic Archaeology. (2011)
- Palaeocarpentry in the Eastern Arctic: An inferential exploration of Saqqaq kayak construction.. Matthew Walls. vis-a-vis Explorations in Anthropology. (2010)
- Endogenous community development in Greenland: A perspective on creative transformation and the perception of future. Naotaka Hayashi; Matthew Walls. Polar Science. (2019)
- The Beginnings of Mountain Settlement in Czech Republic – a Case Study from Southern Bohemia. Jan Eigner; Katarina Kapustka; A. PelisiakM.; Matthew Walls. Archaeo Press/Oxbow Books. 185-196. (2017)
- The Beginnings of Mountain Settlement in Czech Republic – a Case Study from Southern Bohemia. Jan Eigner; Katarina Kapustka; A. PelisiakM.; Matthew Walls. Archaeo Press/Oxbow Books. 185-196. (2018)
- A Comparative Perspective on Mesolithic Assemblages from Different Landscapes in Bohemia. Matthew Walls; Dusan Boric; Kapustka Katarína; Jan Eigner. Oxbow Books. 1-32. (2017)
- A Comparative Perspective on Mesolithic Assemblages from Different Landscapes in Bohemia. Matthew Walls; Kapustka Katarína; Dusan Boric; Jan Eigner. Oxbow Books. 1-32. (2019)
- Creativity as a Developmental Ecology. Matthew Walls; Lambros Malafouris; Vlad Glaveneau. Palgrave. 623-638. (2017)
- Caribou Inuit Traders of the Kivalliq, Nunavut. Matthew Walls. Archaeopress British Archaeological Reports. 200. (2009)
In the News
- Inughuit perceptions of climate change and impact to archaeological sites. Kalaallit Nunaata Radioa - Greenland Broadcasting Corporation. (2018)
- Archaeologists examine hearths from Late Paleolithic hunter-gatherers. Ceske Televize (Czech Television). (2021)
- Archaeologists discover ancient camps at rock overhangs in Kokorinsko. Ekolist (Czech Ecology). (2021)
- Hunter Gatherers and Tramps Cooked Here. iDnes (Czech Today). (2021)
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