STEM Ed+ Commons | Alicia Colson | Activity https://stemedplus.hcommons.org/members/aliciacolson/activity/ Activity feed for Alicia Colson. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 11:10:43 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 bd7ee82a6f9e67bdc2290a6eb7f961d1 Alicia Colson's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1922198/ Wed, 09 Jul 2025 11:38:20 +0000 0 9784270912dc74a7561eecb671ead9f1 Alicia Colson's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1921342/ Wed, 02 Jul 2025 15:59:37 +0000 0 8acf106589f795bceee57b5f4bb461bb Alicia Colson deposited Book review of “Graham Connah, Writing about Archaeology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010, 210 pp., illustr., pbk, ISBN 978-0-521-68851-2 in the group Archaeology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868555/ Tue, 19 Dec 2023 03:07:08 +0000 Book review

]]> 0 3513d44304251a45bd63cce8030395cf Alicia Colson deposited Disappearing Children after the Sixties Scoop in the group Archaeology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868554/ Tue, 19 Dec 2023 03:06:45 +0000 Whether or not you’ve heard the phrase ‘the Sixties Scoop’ probably depends on where you live, your heritage, and whether you ever had the opportunity to learn about the history of Indigenous peoples. Many don’t. The word ‘scoop’ is mild, and therefore deceptive. It’s the name given to a component of Canada’s cultural genocide conducted again…[Read more]

]]> 0 327fe960b9c11932d6bcb1585d26a14c Alicia Colson deposited Visiting Old Friends in the group Historical Archaeology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868553/ Tue, 19 Dec 2023 03:06:44 +0000 This published by the publication 'The Contingent' https://contingentmagazine.org

]]> 0 2d6fe2a3a4bd726cda952fa574ac3e69 Alicia Colson deposited Visiting Old Friends in the group Archaeology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868552/ Tue, 19 Dec 2023 03:06:22 +0000 This published by the publication 'The Contingent' https://contingentmagazine.org

]]> 0 0a0d1ac812b0117a2db0546cf87955fd Alicia Colson deposited The Brown Bear and I: archeology, adventure and colonisation in the Canadian 'wilderness' in the group Historical Archaeology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868551/ Tue, 19 Dec 2023 03:06:20 +0000 In this piece Alicia writes about archeology as adventure, in the context of a long history of colonial exploration and exploitation of Indigenous peoples in the Canadian 'wilderness'. https://adventureuncovered.com/stories/the-brown-bear-and-i-archeology-adventure-and-colonisation-in-the-canadian-wilderness/

]]> 0 4318ebc6c83d43e74bbef3f65151d7dc Alicia Colson deposited The Brown Bear and I: archeology, adventure and colonisation in the Canadian 'wilderness' in the group Archaeology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868550/ Tue, 19 Dec 2023 03:05:58 +0000 In this piece Alicia writes about archeology as adventure, in the context of a long history of colonial exploration and exploitation of Indigenous peoples in the Canadian 'wilderness'. https://adventureuncovered.com/stories/the-brown-bear-and-i-archeology-adventure-and-colonisation-in-the-canadian-wilderness/

]]> 0 21c65dbf86680f01fd1ae710a9c551ca Alicia Colson deposited NFTs, AI, Ethics, and Indigenous Peoples. in the group Historical Archaeology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868544/ Tue, 19 Dec 2023 03:05:46 +0000 The article is published in the official Journal of The Institute of Science and Technology (ISSN 2040-1868)

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]]> 0 51a073163b1809c02ab53c547d3c12db Alicia Colson deposited Do not make snap decisions about what you are seeing: how digital analysis of the images from the Canadian Shield highlights the difficulties in classifying shapes in the group Historical Archaeology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868540/ Tue, 19 Dec 2023 03:05:02 +0000 The act of classification has the widest implications for scholarship. Whatever the format, it involves the totality of our being. The use of our eyes indicates that decisions about whatever it is that we observe have already been made. Yet the interaction between the mechanical act of seeing and the mind or memory has rarely been registered. An…[Read more]

]]> 0 a9f385eb948e49d545a0e69bc307c752 Alicia Colson deposited Do not make snap decisions about what you are seeing: how digital analysis of the images from the Canadian Shield highlights the difficulties in classifying shapes in the group Digital Humanists https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868539/ Tue, 19 Dec 2023 03:04:47 +0000 The act of classification has the widest implications for scholarship. Whatever the format, it involves the totality of our being. The use of our eyes indicates that decisions about whatever it is that we observe have already been made. Yet the interaction between the mechanical act of seeing and the mind or memory has rarely been registered. An…[Read more]

]]> 0 5908b6838934ba16b9b1ee20e860202d Alicia Colson deposited Do not make snap decisions about what you are seeing: how digital analysis of the images from the Canadian Shield highlights the difficulties in classifying shapes in the group Digital Art History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868538/ Tue, 19 Dec 2023 03:04:41 +0000 The act of classification has the widest implications for scholarship. Whatever the format, it involves the totality of our being. The use of our eyes indicates that decisions about whatever it is that we observe have already been made. Yet the interaction between the mechanical act of seeing and the mind or memory has rarely been registered. An…[Read more]

]]> 0 b0e351d5ff942b71a52a865c183b3528 Alicia Colson deposited Do not make snap decisions about what you are seeing: how digital analysis of the images from the Canadian Shield highlights the difficulties in classifying shapes in the group Archaeology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868537/ Tue, 19 Dec 2023 03:04:20 +0000 The act of classification has the widest implications for scholarship. Whatever the format, it involves the totality of our being. The use of our eyes indicates that decisions about whatever it is that we observe have already been made. Yet the interaction between the mechanical act of seeing and the mind or memory has rarely been registered. An…[Read more]

]]> 0 4ec6c6d170e02363fd0c9492c12ebf25 Alicia Colson deposited AI generated images, photography and visual documentary evidence as sources: Thoughts on Boris Eldagsen's Image, well 'photograph'. in the group Historical Archaeology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868536/ Tue, 19 Dec 2023 03:04:18 +0000 Some thoughts on Boris Eldagsen's Image, well 'photograph', an AI generated image.

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]]> 0 d66b5e70fb972daa7038e6f25e7f6e5b Alicia Colson deposited WHAT DO THESE SYMBOLS MEAN? A CRITICAL REVIEW OF THE IMAGES FOUND ON THE ROCKS OF THE CANADIAN SHIELD WITH SPECIFIC REFERENCE TO THE PICTOGRAPHS OF THE LAKE OF THE WOODS in the group Historical Archaeology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868533/ Tue, 19 Dec 2023 03:03:55 +0000 Review of the literature on pictograph sites in the Canadian Shield with specific reference to those found in the Lake of the Woods, in north-western Ontario, Canada.

]]> 0 7cd3645c21d1554cabd03ac01605595f Alicia Colson deposited WHAT DO THESE SYMBOLS MEAN? A CRITICAL REVIEW OF THE IMAGES FOUND ON THE ROCKS OF THE CANADIAN SHIELD WITH SPECIFIC REFERENCE TO THE PICTOGRAPHS OF THE LAKE OF THE WOODS in the group Ethnomusicology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868532/ Tue, 19 Dec 2023 03:03:51 +0000 Review of the literature on pictograph sites in the Canadian Shield with specific reference to those found in the Lake of the Woods, in north-western Ontario, Canada.

]]> 0 391f6f6c10550eb3b0b5e6636bc2e1b7 Alicia Colson deposited WHAT DO THESE SYMBOLS MEAN? A CRITICAL REVIEW OF THE IMAGES FOUND ON THE ROCKS OF THE CANADIAN SHIELD WITH SPECIFIC REFERENCE TO THE PICTOGRAPHS OF THE LAKE OF THE WOODS in the group Digital Humanists https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868531/ Tue, 19 Dec 2023 03:03:36 +0000 Review of the literature on pictograph sites in the Canadian Shield with specific reference to those found in the Lake of the Woods, in north-western Ontario, Canada.

]]> 0 c28853a5159369cb3cde4e7e5623db4b Alicia Colson deposited WHAT DO THESE SYMBOLS MEAN? A CRITICAL REVIEW OF THE IMAGES FOUND ON THE ROCKS OF THE CANADIAN SHIELD WITH SPECIFIC REFERENCE TO THE PICTOGRAPHS OF THE LAKE OF THE WOODS in the group Digital Art History https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868530/ Tue, 19 Dec 2023 03:03:30 +0000 Review of the literature on pictograph sites in the Canadian Shield with specific reference to those found in the Lake of the Woods, in north-western Ontario, Canada.

]]> 0 8b69705557f589c7980b1b1b06936bed Alicia Colson deposited WHAT DO THESE SYMBOLS MEAN? A CRITICAL REVIEW OF THE IMAGES FOUND ON THE ROCKS OF THE CANADIAN SHIELD WITH SPECIFIC REFERENCE TO THE PICTOGRAPHS OF THE LAKE OF THE WOODS in the group Archaeology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868529/ Tue, 19 Dec 2023 03:03:08 +0000 Review of the literature on pictograph sites in the Canadian Shield with specific reference to those found in the Lake of the Woods, in north-western Ontario, Canada.

]]> 0 0aa7ce17bfc8c8eca90de4dcdb313b48 Alicia Colson deposited Shifting perspectives: method, media and the complex image in the group Historical theory and the philosophy of history https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868528/ Tue, 19 Dec 2023 03:03:06 +0000 This article argues that the analysis of a threedimensional image demanded a three-dimensional approach. The authors realise that discussions of images and image processing inveterately conceptualise representation as being flat, static, and finite. The authors recognise the need for a fresh acuteness to three-dimensionality as a meaningful – a…[Read more]

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]]> 0 e37d2cfc2624919503cbf2324b85a41c Alicia Colson deposited What is a Heritage River? in the group Indigenous Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868524/ Tue, 19 Dec 2023 03:02:12 +0000 Essay on the NiCHE-Canada website: https://niche-canada.org/2023/10/30/what-is-a-heritage-river/

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]]> 0 b86d062733dcda40529236673581c69b Alicia Colson deposited Review of Susan M. Kooiman. Ancient Pottery, Cuisine, and Society at the Northern Great Lakes. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2021. Illustrations, tables. 240 pp. $34.99, e-book, ISBN 978-0-268-20147-0. in the group Archaeology https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868521/ Tue, 19 Dec 2023 03:01:25 +0000 Book review

]]> 0 34d9ede81cd4bc9dae5b171aba51f336 Alicia Colson deposited Identifying Stories: The Challenges of New Sites, New Images and Different Interpretations of the images found on Pictograph sites in Lake of the Woods, Central Canada. in the group Indigenous Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868520/ Tue, 19 Dec 2023 03:01:16 +0000 This article discusses four pictograph sites in the Lake of the Woods where the images were interpreted by several Indigenous peoples.

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]]> 0 3060861e37452ea7c9a32b6315cea2fb Alicia Colson deposited Book review of “Graham Connah, Writing about Archaeology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010, 210 pp., illustr., pbk, ISBN 978-0-521-68851-2 https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868469/ Mon, 18 Dec 2023 20:57:56 +0000 Book review

]]> 0 87458d3014729be59d94d78cf3228d53 Alicia Colson deposited Disappearing Children after the Sixties Scoop https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868463/ Mon, 18 Dec 2023 19:41:14 +0000 Whether or not you’ve heard the phrase ‘the Sixties Scoop’ probably depends on where you live, your heritage, and whether you ever had the opportunity to learn about the history of Indigenous peoples. Many don’t. The word ‘scoop’ is mild, and therefore deceptive. It’s the name given to a component of Canada’s cultural genocide conducted again…[Read more]

]]> 0 d45d6df70bcddccef2617106c0dee1a9 Alicia Colson deposited Visiting Old Friends https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868462/ Mon, 18 Dec 2023 19:33:47 +0000 This published by the publication 'The Contingent' https://contingentmagazine.org

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]]> 0 ce11acbbb6fd9c40558936aafc378ac7 Alicia Colson deposited NFTs, AI, Ethics, and Indigenous Peoples. https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868440/ Mon, 18 Dec 2023 17:43:45 +0000 The article is published in the official Journal of The Institute of Science and Technology (ISSN 2040-1868)

]]> 0 5e999cf03f670a7526525db6ccbab668 Alicia Colson deposited Do not make snap decisions about what you are seeing: how digital analysis of the images from the Canadian Shield highlights the difficulties in classifying shapes https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868439/ Mon, 18 Dec 2023 17:18:34 +0000 The act of classification has the widest implications for scholarship. Whatever the format, it involves the totality of our being. The use of our eyes indicates that decisions about whatever it is that we observe have already been made. Yet the interaction between the mechanical act of seeing and the mind or memory has rarely been registered. An…[Read more]

]]> 0 d937191ad50da3c0faf379ec3670e8c9 Alicia Colson's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868438/ Mon, 18 Dec 2023 17:08:55 +0000 0 51c851b3eecb74bf2cbbe586001467f2 Alicia Colson deposited WHAT DO THESE SYMBOLS MEAN? A CRITICAL REVIEW OF THE IMAGES FOUND ON THE ROCKS OF THE CANADIAN SHIELD WITH SPECIFIC REFERENCE TO THE PICTOGRAPHS OF THE LAKE OF THE WOODS https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868436/ Mon, 18 Dec 2023 17:04:44 +0000 Review of the literature on pictograph sites in the Canadian Shield with specific reference to those found in the Lake of the Woods, in north-western Ontario, Canada.

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]]> 0 c85447d58a18d4f23f6a2cc429dd5b7a Alicia Colson's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1868266/ Sat, 16 Dec 2023 21:35:21 +0000 0 e68292ca4973a4a3f27da2bfc6b633c7 Alicia Colson's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1728152/ Sat, 20 Feb 2021 14:28:26 +0000 0