Before Ontario
Before Ontario

Author: Marit K. Munson

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2013-10-01

Total Pages: 491

ISBN-13: 0773589201

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Before Ontario there was ice. As the last ice age came to an end, land began to emerge from the melting glaciers. With time, plants and animals moved into the new landscape and people followed. For almost 15,000 years, the land that is now Ontario has provided a home for their descendants: hundreds of generations of First Peoples. With contributions from the province's leading archaeologists, Before Ontario provides both an outline of Ontario's ancient past and an easy to understand explanation of how archaeology works. The authors show how archaeologists are able to study items as diverse as fish bones, flakes of stone, and stains in the soil to reconstruct the events and places of a distant past - fishing parties, long-distance trade, and houses built to withstand frigid winters. Presenting new insights into archaeology’s purpose and practice, Before Ontario bridges the gap between the modern world and a past that can seem distant and unfamiliar, but is not beyond our reach. Contributors include Christopher Ellis (University of Western Ontario), Neal Ferris (University of Western Ontario/Museum of Ontario Archaeology), William Fox (Canadian Museum of Civilization/Royal Ontario Museum), Scott Hamilton (Lakehead University), Susan Jamieson (Trent University Archaeological Research Centre - TUARC), Mima Kapches (Royal Ontario Museum), Anne Keenleyside (TUARC), Stephen Monckton (Bioarchaeological Research), Marit Munson (TUARC), Kris Nahrgang (Kawartha Nishnawbe First Nation), Suzanne Needs-Howarth (Perca Zooarchaeological Research), Cath Oberholtzer (TUARC), Michael Spence (University of Western Ontario), Andrew Stewart (Strata Consulting Inc.), Gary Warrick (Wilfrid Laurier University), and Ron Williamson (Archaeological Services Inc).

The Fisher Site
The Fisher Site

Author: Peter L. Storck

Publisher: U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY

Published: 1997-01-01

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 0915703416

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Processes of Cultural Change [microform] : Ceramics and Interaction Across the Middle to Late Woodland Transition in South-central Ontario
Processes of Cultural Change [microform] : Ceramics and Interaction Across the Middle to Late Woodland Transition in South-central Ontario

Author: Jenneth Elizabeth Curtis

Publisher: National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 820

ISBN-13: 9780612916678

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The archaeology of the Rice Lake-Trent River Region in south-central Ontario provides a case study for the investigation of processes of cultural change involving social interaction. A synthesis of previous archaeological research indicates that the period encompassing the Middle to Late Woodland transition and Iroquoian origins is poorly known in this region. It nonetheless represents a time during which significant cultural changes were taking place. The processes of cultural change are explored by contrasting the migration and in situ development hypotheses for Iroquoian origins while incorporating the central role of social interaction. Analysis of data obtained through excavations at the Spillsbury Bay and Log Cabin Point Sites provides new information concerning the nature of Middle and early Late Woodland occupations in the region. The ceramic assemblages from these two sites are placed within the wider context of the regional scale in combination with previously excavated collections. Expectations for ceramic patterning derived from the cultural change scenarios are then evaluated against this regional database. This assessment is facilitated through the use of two statistical techniques: frequency distributions and correspondence analysis. The results clearly demonstrate both continuity and patterned change within the region. In addition to supporting the in situ hypothesis, analysis of the ceramic assemblages enables the establishment of a regional ceramic sequence. This sequence consists of three temporal phases of the Point Peninsula Tradition: Trent, Rice Lake, and Sandbanks; followed by the Early Ontario Iroquois Stage of the Ontario Iroquois Tradition. Interregional comparisons between Sandbanks ceramics and those of the contemporary Princess Point Complex in southwestern Ontario provide a broader perspective on the nature of the Middle to Late Woodland transition in the Northeast.

Thedford II
Thedford II

Author: D. Brian Deller

Publisher: U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY

Published: 1992-01-01

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 0915703254

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The Mantle Site
The Mantle Site

Author: Jennifer Birch

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2015-03-04

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 075912101X

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This is the first detailed analysis of a completely excavated northern Iroquoian community, a sixteenth-century ancestral Wendat village on the north shore of Lake Ontario. The site resulted from the coalescence of multiple small villages into one well-planned and well-integrated community. Jennifer Birch and Ronald F. Williamson frame the development of this community in the context of a historical sequence of site relocations. The social processes that led to its formation, the political and economic lives of its inhabitants, and their relationships to other populations in northeastern North America are explored using multiple scales of analysis. This book is key for those interested in the history and archaeology of eastern North America, the social, political, and economic organization of Iroquoian societies, the archaeology of communities, and processes of settlement aggregation.