Adriana Fontaine M.A.

Bioarchaeologist, Field Supervisor

Adriana Fontaine (Mandich) received a BA Archaeology and Classical Studies from Wilfrid Laurier University in 2002 and an MA in Anthropology from the University of Western Ontario in 2004. She is a bioarchaeologist with an interest in human osteology and ancient mortuary practices. Her masters thesis involved the analysis of scattered human bone fragments from the Lawson Site (AgHh-1), a precontact Neutral site in London, Ontario. Adriana joined TMHC in 2004 as a field supervisor and bioarchaeologist. She was instrumental in the documentation of several burials on a large, multiple occupation Iroquoian site. Her previous cultural resource management work has included the osteological analysis of several individuals from an Iroquoian ossuary in Simcoe County. Her research has also driven her participation in the excavation of precontact Iroquoian and Wendat (Huron) sites in southern Ontario, an early Christian church in Drniš, Croatia, a Bronze Age settlement in Greece and the site of Pompeii in Italy.