Matt Boyd
Biographic Data
| ID | 4873246 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matt Boyd |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matt |
| FAMILY NAME | Boyd |
| SIGNATURE | BOYD M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lakehead University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1387-5047 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 59 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Impact of Covid-19 control strategies on health and GDP growth outcomes in 193 sovereign jurisdictions
The Covid-19 pandemic caused approximately 27.3 million excess deaths globally as of June 2024. Despite growing research on pandemic response factors, the effectiveness of different strategic approaches to Covid-19 control remains insufficiently investigated. We aimed to examine associations between Covid-19 pandemic control strategies (including stringent border restrictions) with age-standardized excess mortality and GDP per capita growth outco…
Materiality of forager food insecurity in the archaeological record
Examines the connection between food insecurity and forager material culture. • Abrupt warming 800 years ago coincided with stylistic changes in pottery in the central Boreal Forest. • Pottery was used as a container to cook aquatic foods and as a feasting object. • Stylistic changes record the disruption of cooperative aquatic food harvesting. • Highlights the value of archaeology in northern food security studies. Food insecurity is a highly di…
We should not dismiss the possibility of eradicating Covid-19
box Elimination and eradication of disease are among the ultimate goals of public health1 (for definitions see box 1). Vaccination has globally eradicated smallpox, rinderpest (a cattle disease that caused famines2) and two of the three serotypes of poliovirus.3 Three other vaccine-preventable diseases are eradicable globally with current technology,4 with measles the leading contender and with MMR vaccination potentially eradicating mumps and ru…
A multi-proxy study of changing environmental conditions in a Younger Dryas sequence in southwestern Manitoba, Canada
A multi-proxy study of changing environmental conditions in a Younger Dryas sequence in southwestern Manitoba, Canada: Response to comments by Breslawski et al., Quaternary Research Volume 94, 210–211 - Volume 94
A multi-proxy study of changing environmental conditions in a Younger Dryas sequence in southwestern Manitoba, Canada, and evidence for an extraterrestrial event
Multi-proxy analyses of a sequence spanning the Younger Dryas (YD) in the Glacial Lake Hind basin of Manitoba provides insight into regional paleohydrology and paleovegetation of meltwater rivers and lakes spanning >4000 yr; the sequence is controlled by 25 new accelerator mass spectrometry ages. This lake, dammed by the Laurentide Ice Sheet, overflowed into Lake Agassiz. The pre-YD interval records rapid sedimentation from meltwaters that headed…
Validation analysis of Global Health Security Index (GHSI) scores 2019
INTRODUCTION: The COVID-19 pandemic powerfully demonstrates the consequences of biothreats. Countries will want to know how to better prepare for future events. The Global Health Security Index (GHSI) is a broad, independent assessment of 195 countries' preparedness for biothreats that may aid this endeavour. However, to be useful, the GHSI's external validity must be demonstrated. We aimed to validate the GHSI against a range of external metrics…
Northernmost Precontact Maize in North America
Corn (Zea mays ssp. mays) was a key economic plant in the Americas, yet little information exists on the northern limit of maize consumption before European contact. Based on the analysis of carbonized food residue on pottery for plant microfossils (phytoliths and starch granules) from 58 precontact archaeological sites, we report the first evidence of maize consumption in the subarctic boreal forest. Recovery of maize microfossils from several w…
Reassessing the northern limit of maize consumption in North America
Archaeobotanical evidence of prehistoric maize (Zea mays) consumption at the northern edge of the Great Plains
Reconstructing a Prairie-Woodland Mosaic on the Northern Great Plains
Recent geological evidence of high-amplitude, short-term, climatic variability on the northern Plains in the late Holocene implies that significant fluctuations in resource availability may have regularly occurred on the scale of human generations. In this region, evidence of high mobility, low population density, and storage are generalized responses of hunter-gatherer populations to the effects of environmental variability on resourcepredictabi…
Radiocarbon Age Estimates from the SCAPE Project 2000–2005
This paper reports the results of 107 radiocarbon age estimates at and around the vicinity of four archaeological site localities in southwest Manitoba, central Saskatchewan, and southeast Alberta. Age estimates are reported from archaeological excavations, geomorphological and geoarchaeological investigations of the sites and relevant post-glacial landscape features, and from paleoenvironmental investigations. Pertinent laboratory and contextual…
Paleoecology and geochronology of glacial Lake Hind during the Pleistocene–Holocene transition
Stratigraphic and paleoecologic (palynomorph, macrobotanical) data obtained from a cutbank of the Souris River in southwestern Manitoba establish some fundamental parameters of Folsom land‐use in association with a proglacial lake on the Canadian Prairies. By dating the regression of glacial Lake Hind, we observed that recorded Folsom sites are restricted to areas of the Hind basin drained shortly before 10,400 yr B.P. This pattern may therefore …
Identification of Anthropogenic Burning in the Paleoecological Record of the Northern Prairies
Despite recent interest in the North American fire record, paleoecological evidence for the deliberate burning of grassland by hunter–gatherers has not previously been sought. Through the analysis of grass phytoliths preserved in a sequence of buried soil horizons in the Lauder Sandhills, southwestern Manitoba, Canada, this article reconstructs a local grassland fire record for the past 5,000 years. I propose that an apparent peak in fire frequen…
Interdependence and Power
In recent years, socioeconomic relations between horticulturists and hunter-gatherers have received greater attention in the archaeological literature. These relations have been probed primarily from theoretical perspectives that emphasize adaptation and dietary optimization. For example, the exchange of bison meat for maize between hunters and farmers is seen as an efficient means of acquiring protein in otherwise carbohydrate-rich diets, and ca…
Reassessing the northern limit of maize consumption in North America
Archaeobotanical evidence of prehistoric maize (Zea mays) consumption at the northern edge of the Great Plains
Northernmost Precontact Maize in North America
Corn (Zea mays ssp. mays) was a key economic plant in the Americas, yet little information exists on the northern limit of maize consumption before European contact. Based on the analysis of carbonized food residue on pottery for plant microfossils (phytoliths and starch granules) from 58 precontact archaeological sites, we report the first evidence of maize consumption in the subarctic boreal forest. Recovery of maize microfossils from several w…
Identification of Anthropogenic Burning in the Paleoecological Record of the Northern Prairies
Despite recent interest in the North American fire record, paleoecological evidence for the deliberate burning of grassland by hunter–gatherers has not previously been sought. Through the analysis of grass phytoliths preserved in a sequence of buried soil horizons in the Lauder Sandhills, southwestern Manitoba, Canada, this article reconstructs a local grassland fire record for the past 5,000 years. I propose that an apparent peak in fire frequen…
Interdependence and Power
In recent years, socioeconomic relations between horticulturists and hunter-gatherers have received greater attention in the archaeological literature. These relations have been probed primarily from theoretical perspectives that emphasize adaptation and dietary optimization. For example, the exchange of bison meat for maize between hunters and farmers is seen as an efficient means of acquiring protein in otherwise carbohydrate-rich diets, and ca…
Paleoecology and geochronology of glacial Lake Hind during the Pleistocene–Holocene transition
Stratigraphic and paleoecologic (palynomorph, macrobotanical) data obtained from a cutbank of the Souris River in southwestern Manitoba establish some fundamental parameters of Folsom land‐use in association with a proglacial lake on the Canadian Prairies. By dating the regression of glacial Lake Hind, we observed that recorded Folsom sites are restricted to areas of the Hind basin drained shortly before 10,400 yr B.P. This pattern may therefore …
Materiality of forager food insecurity in the archaeological record
Examines the connection between food insecurity and forager material culture. • Abrupt warming 800 years ago coincided with stylistic changes in pottery in the central Boreal Forest. • Pottery was used as a container to cook aquatic foods and as a feasting object. • Stylistic changes record the disruption of cooperative aquatic food harvesting. • Highlights the value of archaeology in northern food security studies. Food insecurity is a highly di…
Reconstructing a Prairie-Woodland Mosaic on the Northern Great Plains
Recent geological evidence of high-amplitude, short-term, climatic variability on the northern Plains in the late Holocene implies that significant fluctuations in resource availability may have regularly occurred on the scale of human generations. In this region, evidence of high mobility, low population density, and storage are generalized responses of hunter-gatherer populations to the effects of environmental variability on resourcepredictabi…
Interdependence and Power
In recent years, socioeconomic relations between horticulturists and hunter-gatherers have received greater attention in the archaeological literature. These relations have been probed primarily from theoretical perspectives that emphasize adaptation and dietary optimization. For example, the exchange of bison meat for maize between hunters and farmers is seen as an efficient means of acquiring protein in otherwise carbohydrate-rich diets, and ca…
Identification of Anthropogenic Burning in the Paleoecological Record of the Northern Prairies
Despite recent interest in the North American fire record, paleoecological evidence for the deliberate burning of grassland by hunter–gatherers has not previously been sought. Through the analysis of grass phytoliths preserved in a sequence of buried soil horizons in the Lauder Sandhills, southwestern Manitoba, Canada, this article reconstructs a local grassland fire record for the past 5,000 years. I propose that an apparent peak in fire frequen…
Paleoecology and geochronology of glacial Lake Hind during the Pleistocene–Holocene transition
Stratigraphic and paleoecologic (palynomorph, macrobotanical) data obtained from a cutbank of the Souris River in southwestern Manitoba establish some fundamental parameters of Folsom land‐use in association with a proglacial lake on the Canadian Prairies. By dating the regression of glacial Lake Hind, we observed that recorded Folsom sites are restricted to areas of the Hind basin drained shortly before 10,400 yr B.P. This pattern may therefore …
Archaeobotanical evidence of prehistoric maize (Zea mays) consumption at the northern edge of the Great Plains
Reconstructing a Prairie-Woodland Mosaic on the Northern Great Plains
Recent geological evidence of high-amplitude, short-term, climatic variability on the northern Plains in the late Holocene implies that significant fluctuations in resource availability may have regularly occurred on the scale of human generations. In this region, evidence of high mobility, low population density, and storage are generalized responses of hunter-gatherer populations to the effects of environmental variability on resourcepredictabi…
Radiocarbon Age Estimates from the SCAPE Project 2000–2005
This paper reports the results of 107 radiocarbon age estimates at and around the vicinity of four archaeological site localities in southwest Manitoba, central Saskatchewan, and southeast Alberta. Age estimates are reported from archaeological excavations, geomorphological and geoarchaeological investigations of the sites and relevant post-glacial landscape features, and from paleoenvironmental investigations. Pertinent laboratory and contextual…
Reassessing the northern limit of maize consumption in North America
Northernmost Precontact Maize in North America
Corn (Zea mays ssp. mays) was a key economic plant in the Americas, yet little information exists on the northern limit of maize consumption before European contact. Based on the analysis of carbonized food residue on pottery for plant microfossils (phytoliths and starch granules) from 58 precontact archaeological sites, we report the first evidence of maize consumption in the subarctic boreal forest. Recovery of maize microfossils from several w…
A multi-proxy study of changing environmental conditions in a Younger Dryas sequence in southwestern Manitoba, Canada
A multi-proxy study of changing environmental conditions in a Younger Dryas sequence in southwestern Manitoba, Canada: Response to comments by Breslawski et al., Quaternary Research Volume 94, 210–211 - Volume 94
A multi-proxy study of changing environmental conditions in a Younger Dryas sequence in southwestern Manitoba, Canada, and evidence for an extraterrestrial event
Multi-proxy analyses of a sequence spanning the Younger Dryas (YD) in the Glacial Lake Hind basin of Manitoba provides insight into regional paleohydrology and paleovegetation of meltwater rivers and lakes spanning >4000 yr; the sequence is controlled by 25 new accelerator mass spectrometry ages. This lake, dammed by the Laurentide Ice Sheet, overflowed into Lake Agassiz. The pre-YD interval records rapid sedimentation from meltwaters that headed…
Validation analysis of Global Health Security Index (GHSI) scores 2019
INTRODUCTION: The COVID-19 pandemic powerfully demonstrates the consequences of biothreats. Countries will want to know how to better prepare for future events. The Global Health Security Index (GHSI) is a broad, independent assessment of 195 countries' preparedness for biothreats that may aid this endeavour. However, to be useful, the GHSI's external validity must be demonstrated. We aimed to validate the GHSI against a range of external metrics…
We should not dismiss the possibility of eradicating Covid-19
box Elimination and eradication of disease are among the ultimate goals of public health1 (for definitions see box 1). Vaccination has globally eradicated smallpox, rinderpest (a cattle disease that caused famines2) and two of the three serotypes of poliovirus.3 Three other vaccine-preventable diseases are eradicable globally with current technology,4 with measles the leading contender and with MMR vaccination potentially eradicating mumps and ru…
Impact of Covid-19 control strategies on health and GDP growth outcomes in 193 sovereign jurisdictions
The Covid-19 pandemic caused approximately 27.3 million excess deaths globally as of June 2024. Despite growing research on pandemic response factors, the effectiveness of different strategic approaches to Covid-19 control remains insufficiently investigated. We aimed to examine associations between Covid-19 pandemic control strategies (including stringent border restrictions) with age-standardized excess mortality and GDP per capita growth outco…
Materiality of forager food insecurity in the archaeological record
Examines the connection between food insecurity and forager material culture. • Abrupt warming 800 years ago coincided with stylistic changes in pottery in the central Boreal Forest. • Pottery was used as a container to cook aquatic foods and as a feasting object. • Stylistic changes record the disruption of cooperative aquatic food harvesting. • Highlights the value of archaeology in northern food security studies. Food insecurity is a highly di…
Geography (10 works) · Archaeology (9 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (8 works) · Ecology (6 works) · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (6 works) · Holocene (6 works) · Physical geography (6 works) · Biology (5 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (5 works) · Agriculture (3 works)