Bio
John Creese is an anthropological archaeologist and author of numerous articles on the archaeology of the Indigenous Great Lakes. Since 2018, he has co-directed the Gete Anishinaabe Izhichigewin Community Archaeology Project (GAICAP) in collaboration with the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa’s Tribal Historic Preservation Office. His work addresses themes such as place and landscape, Indigenous art and kinship, and decolonial methods. He recently completed a term as Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Journal of Archaeology and is co-editor of the University of Colorado Press volume Process and Meaning in Spatial Archaeology: Investigations into Precolumbian Iroquoian Space and Place (2017).
Publications
- 2025Creese, John L., Heather Walder, Katie Phillips, and Marvin DeFoe. 2025. “Community-Engaged Archaeology in Red Cliff, Wisconsin” In Post-contact Archaeology of Michigan and the Upper Great Lakes Region, edited by S. Surface-Evans and M. Jackson, pp. 162-179. Berghahn Books, New York.
- 2021Creese, John L. 2021. “Lines of Becoming: Rock Art, Ontology, and Indigenous Knowledge Practices,” In Ontologies of Rock Art: Images, Relational Approaches, and Indigenous Knowledges, edited by Oscar Moro Abadia and Martin Porr, pp. 161-177. Routledge, New York.
- 2018Creese, John L. 2018. Placemaking in Canadian Archaeology. Canadian Journal of Archaeology 42(1):46-56.
- 2017Creese, John L. 2017. Art as Kinship: Signs of Life in the Eastern Woodlands. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 27(4):643-654.
- 2016Creese, John L. 2016. Emotion Work and the Archaeology of Consensus: The Northern Iroquoian Case. World Archaeology 48(1):14-34.