The Strategy of Iroquoian Prehistory
Volume: OA14
Year: 1970
Author: TRIGGER, Bruce G.
Page Range: 3 – 48
Abstract: No Abstract
The Charleston Lake Rock Shelter
Volume: OA14
Year: 1970
Author: GORDON, R. L.
Page Range: 49 – 57
Abstract: Excavations during the last week of May of 1967, conducted for the Ontario Department of Lands and Forests by personnel from Trent University at the Charleston Lake Rock Shelter, produced evidence of at least two short periods of occupation. The shelter is situated on the western shore of Slack Bay on Charleston Lake.
A Petun Burial in Nottawasaga Township, Ontario
Volume: OA15
Year: 1970
Author: GARRAD, C.
Page Range: 3 – 15
Abstract: The burial is reported of an adult female having unusual archaeological, ethnological and pathological interest.
A Burial at Wasaga Beach, Ontario
Volume: OA15
Year: 1970
Author: SHROPSHIRE, J. W.
Page Range: 16 – 19
Abstract: The accidental discovery in September 1969 of a human burial by Mr. C. Hill on his property on the east bank of the Nottawasaga River at Wasaga Beach, Sunnidale Township, Simcoe County was reported to the writer, whose inspection revealed that the burial had partly underlain a tree on a sand ridge. During removal of the ridge, the skull, cervical vertebrae, scapulae, ribs, right radius, right ulna and all humeral and hand bones had been disturbed. Excavation and salvage of the portion of the burial in situ was carried out at once.
The Petawawa Small Sites Report
Volume: OA15
Year: 1970
Author: MITCHELL, B. M., D. A. CROFT, P. J. BUTLER & R. J. CAWTHORN
Page Range: 20 – 53
Abstract: In the Petawawa River Valley, a large drainage system in east Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario, 13 small sites of aboriginal occupation have been located. These pertain to Archaic, Middle Woodland, Pickering, Iroquoian and Algonkian groups. Among the Middle Woodland ceramics are sherds which may be attributable to Laurel and Saugeen.
Ontario Fluted Point Survey
Volume: OA16
Year: 1971
Author: GARRAD, C.
Page Range: 3 – 18
Abstract: No Abstract
Nineteenth-Century Clay Tobacco Pipes in Canada
Volume: OA16
Year: 1971
Author: WALKER, I. C.
Page Range: 19 – 35
Abstract: One of the most useful artefacts for dating excavated historical sites is the clay tobacco pipe. By the 19th century these pipes were being mass-produced by many manufacturers in England, Scotland, France, Germany, and Canada, but because by this time makers often placed their name and place of work on their products – generally on the stem – good dating evidence can be obtained when the manufacturing dates of the firms concerned can be found from documentary sources. This article describes, illustrates, and dates the most frequently-found 19th-century pipe material found in Canada.
Scheduling in a Shared Environment: Late Period Land Use Patterns in the Saginaw Valley of Michigan
Volume: OA16
Year: 1971
Author: FITTING, J. E.
Page Range: 36 – 41
Abstract: While late 18th and early 19th century accounts describe a Chippewa occupation of the Saginaw Valley in Eastern Michigan, earlier accounts suggest much more ethnic diversity. In order to understand these accounts, it is necessary to understand the relationship between ethnic units and technic ecotypes in the early historic period and to deal with these technic ecotypes using concepts such as ‘scheduling.’ This approach makes it possible to reconcile both early and late descriptions of the region.
The Sopher Celt: An Indicator of Early Protohistoric Trade in Huronia
Volume: OA16
Year: 1971
Author: NOBLE, W. C.
Page Range: 42 – 47
Abstract: A unique iron bar celt, excavated from the Sopher site Huron ossuary, provides a rare and early example of European trade goods in northern Huronia. Analysis also suggests that the Huron protohistonc can be separated into two temporal divisions according to the nature of trade items found.
The Dougall Site
Volume: OA17
Year: 1972
Author: WRIGHT, J. V.
Page Range: 3 – 23
Abstract: The Dougall site (BdGu-2) is located on the west side of the narrows between Lake Simcoe and Lake Couchiching, Simcoe County, Ontario. Mr. Bruce Dougall, the owner, has been developing the area for private residences and part of this development involved dredging artificial canals; the fill from which had been deposited over the major portion of the site. Indeed, only a small area of the site, approximately 70 feet by 40 feet, has escaped being capped with a thick layer of the heavy clay from the dredging operation. The small point on which the site is situated is described by residents in the area as being an extension of a long,low ridge that was originally flanked on both sides by swamp which was subsequently filled for house construction.
The Lite Site: An Early Southern Division Huron Site Near Belleville, Ontario
Volume: OA17
Year: 1972
Author: PENDERGAST, J. F.
Page Range: 24 – 61
Abstract: The author describes an Iroquoian site north of Belleville Ontario which he excavated during the summer of 1967. The artifacts recovered are described in detail with particular emphasis on the ceramics. Rim sherds have been analysed using both the pottery-type method and the attribute method. The occurrence of pottery decorated with a cord-wrapped-stick technique is noted and, being considered unique in this particular context, is reported upon in detail. In a discussion comparing site characteristics with diagnostic traits of the Northern and Southern Divisions of the Huron-Petun Branch of Ontario Iroquois, evidence is presented in support of a conclusion that the site is a Southern Division component.
On Delineating the Neutral Iroquois of the Eastern Niagara Peninsula of Ontario
Volume: OA17
Year: 1972
Author: WHITE, M. E.
Page Range: 62 – 74
Abstract: No Abstract
A Woodland Indian Site at Constance Bay, Ontario
Volume: OA18
Year: 1972
Author: WATSON, G. D.
Page Range: 1 – 24
Abstract: The accidental discovery of Woodland Indian pottery during the summers of 1969 and 1970 led to the excavation in 1970 and 1971 of a single component site. The site, which has been radiocarbon dated at 2440 ± 75 B.P. (490 ± 75 B.C.), produced ceramics, lithics, fragments of copper, galena, mica and bone, hearth features, and an apparent red-ochre burial marked by a possible petroform effigy.
Faunal Findings at the Constance Bay Site No. 1 (BiGa-2)
Volume: OA18
Year: 1972
Author: SAVAGE, H. G.
Page Range: 25 – 36
Abstract: Faunal material, excavated by Mr. Gordon Watson at the Constance Bay Site No. 1 (BiGa-2) and radiocarbon dated at 2,440 ± 75 B.P., included elements from six mammal species, as well as turtle and fish species, many of which were calcined. The small size of the beaver and black bear findings was noted. Cavitation of the compact bone of most of the cortex specimens from large mammal species was demonstrated by direct examination and radiologically, and its nature investigated by X-ray diffraction and spectography, and microscopic examination and selective staining of ground thin sections. A suggested mode of production of the cavitation is a destructive effect of soil factors on the bone inner portion and its subsequent leaching out, with a resultant shell of cortex only remaining. This effect does not appear to have occurred in other archaeological sites in Ontario.
An Unusual Late Paleo-Indian Projectile Point from Grey County, Southern Ontario
Volume: OA18
Year: 1972
Author: STORCK, P. L.
Page Range: 37 – 45
Abstract: A Late Paleo-Indian projectile point from southern Ontario is described and compared with other Late Paleo-Indian (Plano complex) material in the province. The white quartzite from which the point was made could be from the La Cloche Range on the north shore of Georgian Bay and thus may indicate north-south movements of early hunters. The point cannot be identified with any of the known Late Paleo-Indian manifestations and can only be classified within the inclusive Plano complex.
Human Skeletal Remains From Scott Site
Volume: OA19
Year: 1972
Author: HELMUTH, H. S.
Page Range: 3 – 10
Abstract: The skeletal remains of seven better preserved and eighteen fragmentary skeletons are described as to their metric and epigenetic traits. Sex and age are determined, the latter providing the bases for a relatively young average age at death.
Porteous (AgHb-1): A Probable Early Glen Meyer Village in Brant County, Ontario
Volume: OA19
Year: 1972
Author: NOBLE, W. C., & I. T. KENYON
Page Range: 11 – 38
Abstract: The small, homogeneous Porteous village on the outskirts of the City of Brantford has produced significant new data towards the definition of an early phase in Glen Meyer development. Dating circa 700 A.D., by radiocarbon, definite longhouses with internal refinements are the earliest known to date for southern Ontario and, indeed, for much of the Northeast. Artifact analysis indicates that Porteous falls between the generically earlier Princess Point complex and later Glen Meyer components of southwestern Ontario.
Prehistoric Cultural Sites in Relation to Soils and Other Physical Features of the Landscape in Part of the Kickapoo Valley, Wisconsin
Volume: OA19
Year: 1972
Author: HURLEY, W. M., G. B. LEE & P. L. STORCK
Page Range: 39 – 47
Abstract: No Abstract
Archaeology of the Penetang Peninsula
Volume: OA20
Year: 1973
Author: LATTA, M. A.
Page Range: 3 – 24
Abstract: No Abstract
Soil Analysis at the Robitaille Site: Part I: Determining the Perimeter of the Village
Volume: OA20
Year: 1973
Author: HEIDENREICH, C. E., & S. NAVRATIL
Page Range: 25 – 32
Abstract: The work reported in this paper concludes that phase of the Robitaille soil investigations that deal with the delimitation of the village site. Most of the field and laboratory procedures as well as hypotheses and preliminary findings were published previously (Hurley and Heidenreich, 1969 and 1971). This report should therefore be regarded primarily as a conclusion to previous work rather than as a complete summary of the project.
Soil Analysis at the Robitaille Site: Part II: A Method Useful in Determining the Location of Longhouse Patterns
Volume: OA20
Year: 1973
Author: HEIDENREICH, C. E., & V. A. KONRAD
Page Range: 33 – 62
Abstract: As work proceeded on the delimitation of the village site through soil chemical analysis, the authors became increasingly aware that although the P, Mg and pH readings were consistently high within the village area, there were marked differences in chemical concentrations over fairly short distances. The problem we set ourselves was to discover whether the spatial variation in chemical anomalies had any pattern that might be ascribed to the cultural behaviour of the people occupying the site. In fact, we formulated a hypothesis that the highest readings in pH, P and Mg should be found in the middens and the central areas of the former longhouses.
Two Probable Shield Archaic Sites in Killarney Provincial Park, Ontario
Volume: OA21
Year: 1974
Author: STORCK, P. L.
Page Range: 3 – 36
Abstract: Two collections of stone implements and flake debitage obtained from test excavations at sites in and adjacent to Killarney Provincial Park are described and tentatively assigned to the Shield Archaic complex. In the descriptive analysis of the artifacts, emphasis is placed on interpreting manufacturing techniques as indicated by incomplete tools and flake debitage. It is argued that information on manufacturing techniques should be combined with purely descriptive and functional attributes in developing a rigorous and widely-used typology of Shield Archaic artifacts. The establishment of a sound typology is, of course, essential to any attempts to determine whether there are regional differences or temporal trends in the lithic technology of the Shield Archaic, a complex which was extremely wide-spread and may have persisted for several thousand years.
The Glass Site AgHb-5 Oxbow Tract, Brantford Township, Brant County, Ontario
Volume: OA21
Year: 1974
Author: STOTHERS, D. M.
Page Range: 37 – 45
Abstract: The Glass Site represents a component of the earliest phase of the Grand River focus of the Princess Point Complex. This site represents a previously unknown and undefined archaeological manifestation centered in southwestern Ontario. The Princess Point Complex appears to be an early Late Woodland manifestation characterized by ceramics decorated by cord-wrapped stick impressed designs on the rims; large circular, exterior punctates around the neck; and globular cord-roughened bodies with semi-conical bases. The earliest known remains of maize in Ontario have been found on several Princess Point Complex components.
The Jackes (Eglinton) Site: Another Facet of Southern Huron Development in the Toronto Region
Volume: OA22
Year: 1974
Author: NOBLE, W. C.
Page Range: 3 – 31
Abstract: The little known Jackes (Eglinton) site within the City of Toronto is evaluated from a collection of artifacts now residing at McMaster University. Analysis indicates that Jackes is a prehistoric village involved in southern Huron development, and bears close similarities to the Bosomworth site near Bradford. Too, an hypothesis is generated towards dual origins for the protohistoric Petun.
Archaeology of the Brant River, Polar Bear Park, Ontario, 1972. A Preliminary Report
Volume: OA22
Year: 1974
Author: TOMENCHUCK, J., & W. N. IRVING
Page Range: 33 – 63
Abstract: No Abstract
The Preferred Orientation of Iroquoian Longhouses in Ontario
Volume: OA23
Year: 1974
Author: NORCLIFFE, G. B., & C. E. HEIDENREICH
Page Range: 3 – 30
Abstract: No Abstract
The Sugarbush Site: A Possible Iroquoian Maplesugar Camp
Volume: OA23
Year: 1974
Author: PENDERGAST, J. F.
Page Range: 31 – 61
Abstract: No Abstract
O.A.S. No. 22 Additions and Corrections. Archaeology of the Brant River, Polar Bear Park, Ontario, 1972. A Preliminary Report
Volume: OA23
Year: 1974
Author: TOMENCHUK, J., & W. N. IRVING
Page Range: 62
Abstract: No Abstract
Van Beisen (AfHd-2): A Study in Glen Meyer Development
Volume: OA24
Year: 1975
Author: NOBLE, W. C.
Page Range: 3 – 95
Abstract: No Abstract
New trends in the Early Ontario Iroquois Tradition
Volume: OA25
Year: 1975
Author: REID, C. S.
Page Range: 7 – 20
Abstract: At the tenth-century Boys site, a Pickering branch village in Ontario County, some specific environmental and/or behavioural factors are evident in the dietary practices. In addition, comparisons with other early Ontario Iroquois sites, including a synchronic Glen Meyer village, demonstrate a number of both exclusive and dominant ceramic traits which typify the Pickering branch. Possible adaptive response to a shortage of chert in the area is also apparent, and a palisade construction which is unusual among Ontario Iroquois villages reported on to date appears at Boys. One of the two excavated structures is believed to have served a specialized-possibly ceremonial-function.
The Emergence and Development of the Younge and Ontario Iroquois Traditions
Volume: OA25
Year: 1975
Author: STOTHERS, D. M.
Page Range: 21 – 30
Abstract: Recent research has disclosed that Middle Woodland, Point Peninsula cultural remains are present throughout the Grand River Valley-Niagara Peninsula region of southwestern Ontario. There does not appear to be cultural continuity from this Point Peninsula base to later Princess Point Complex remains, but a strong cultural intrusion into Ontario is postulated sometime after 500 A.D. It is suggested that the close correspondence of the cultural remains of the Younge Tradition and the western branch of the Ontario Iroquois Tradition at all time levels is a reflection of the ethnic identity of the Younge Tradition people as Iroquois. It is furthermore suggested that the Younge Tradition people shifted into southwestern Ontario to be absorbed by late prehistoric Iroquois, and that this cultural displacement was the result of northward intruding Upper Mississippian people and culture.
Investigations of Iroquoian Settlement and Subsistence Patterns at Crawford Lake, Ontario – A Preliminary Report
Volume: OA25
Year: 1975
Author: FINLAYSON, W. D., & R. BYRNE
Page Range: 31 – 36
Abstract: No Abstract
Corn, and the Development of Village Life in Southern Ontario
Volume: OA25
Year: 1975
Author: NOBLE, W. C.
Page Range: 37 – 46
Abstract: The transition to and development of formal village life poses an important research topic in Iroquoian studies. Recent work on corn horticulture and early villages within the Ontario Iroquois Tradition helps answer or shed light on many pertinent questions associated with this topic.
An In-Situ Hypothesis to Explain the Origin of the St. Lawrence Iroquoians
Volume: OA25
Year: 1975
Author: PENDERGAST, J. F.
Page Range: 47 – 55
Abstract: No Abstract
Indian Historians Examine the Prehistory and History of the Iroquois: Problems in Methodology and Records
Volume: OA25
Year: 1975
Author: HILL, R., & D. A. GRINDE, jr.
Page Range: 57 – 59
Abstract: No Abstract
Late Ceramics in Central Eastern Ontario: Iroquois or Algonkin ?
Volume: OA25
Year: 1975
Author: MITCHELL, B. M.
Page Range: 61 – 77
Abstract: No Abstract
Paleo-Indian Locations on Late Pleistocene Shorelines, Middlesex County, Ontario
Volume: OA26
Year: 1976
Author: DELLER, D. B.
Page Range: 3 – 19
Abstract: A Paleo-Indian settlement pattern focused on specific physiographic features is generated through an analysis of data gathered during Paleo-Indian point surveys. Having become intrigued with a distributional pattern of Paleo-Indian artifacts, the author undertook a study which led to the locating of several Paleo sites. This paper concerns a portion ot that study: data collected during site surveys along glacial lake shorelines in Middlesex County, with specific attention being focused on the general physiographic attributes of locations yielding fluted, Hi-Lo or Plano points. These point types, which are considered to be of Paleo-Indian vintage, will be defined after a general delineation of the regions investigated and a summary of the survey technique.
A Short Note on Materials from the Cummins Quarry Site (DcJi-1) Near Thunder Bay, Ontario
Volume: OA26
Year: 1976
Author: STEINBRING, J.
Page Range: 21 – 30
Abstract: No Abstract
The McClellahan Ossuary: A Study in Data Retrieval from a Looted, Early Historic Site
Volume: OA26
Year: 1976
Author: REID, C. S., & T. A. CONWAY
Page Range: 31 – 45
Abstract: The McClellahan ossuary is evaluated as to demography, cultural affiliations, and skeletal pathology in a test case of information retrieval in the context of extensive disturbance. The results indicate that even in such extreme instances meaningful, though limited, data can be recovered.
Who Made the Pipes ? A Study of Decorative Motifs on Middleport Pipe and Pottery Collections
Volume: OA27
Year: 1976
Author: WOOLFREY, S., P. CHITWOOD & N. E. WAGNER
Page Range: 3 – 12
Abstract: In 1966 Wright noted that incised horizontal lines above a row of punctates, ‘incised opposed obliques’ and an ‘incised, complex-zoned motif’ were popular decorative motifs found on the pipes of Middleport substage sites and at the Middleport site in particular (1966:63). Such motifs also appear on the pottery of the period. The authors had observed that many of the motifs which were used to decorate the Pound site pottery had also been applied to the Pound pipes. The question arose as to what extent the decorative motifs on Middleport substage pottery could also be identified on the pipes. Should the correlation be high, one would expect that, either the pottery makers and pipe makers were one and the same, or, that one of the two had influenced the decorative art of the other. It seemed probable that a comparative study of Middleport substage ceramic decorative motifs might provide some statistical evidence which would illuminate the question of who was making the pipes-the men or the women. This study provides some statistical measurement of the correlation of the pipe and pottery decorative motifs and concludes that although the same motifs do appear on both artifact classes, they reflect two or more different traditions at any one site and that these traditions are best explained by assuming the existence of female pottery makers and male pipe makers. It is further concluded that it may be useful to compare the pipe and pottery motifs within a site and to compare these motifs with the pipe and pottery motifs on other Middleport sites which are temporally and geographically related.
The Heaman Site: A Preliminary Report on a Paleo-Indian Site in Middlesex County, Ontario
Volume: OA27
Year: 1976
Author: DELLER, D. B.
Page Range: 13 – 28
Abstract: The Heaman site is one of a number of Paleo-Indian sites clustered along the northeastern edge of the Thedford Marsh in Middlesex County, Ontario. The surface of the site has yielded a small collection of fluted, Agate Basin and Scottsbluff type points which forms the basis of this paper. Other Paleo-Indian artifacts recovered in the vicinity of the marsh are also recorded. The high frequency of Paleo-Indian sites is explained by their orientation to a favourable, post-Algonquin microenvironment.
The Interment of Infants of the Ontario Iroquois
Volume: OA27
Year: 1976
Author: KAPCHES, M.
Page Range: 29 – 39
Abstract: In this paper a previously unreported interment practice will be described and discussed for the Ontario Iroquois. The practice involves the interment of infants inside longhouses and is reported on sites of the Middle to Historic Periods of the Ontario Iroquois. A variation of this interment practice, that of interring infants in vessels and placing the interment on the periphery of the village or in an ossuary, will also be described. Ethnographic and archaeological data will be utilized to clarify and interpret the practice.
Corporate Groups and the Late Ontario Iroquoian Longhouse
Volume: OA28
Year: 1976
Author: HAYDEN, B.
Page Range: 3 – 16
Abstract: Excavations at the Draper site, an undisturbed Late Ontario Iroquois village, indicate that contrary to the more traditional view of trade as a relatively ancillary activity of the Huron, external trade was actually a major determinant of social structure. It is argued that trade was responsible for the development of longhouse residential units, that these units were corporate groups held together by the benefits of trade, and that the archaeological records demonstrates a degree of economic orchestration and specialization within the longhouses previously unsuspected. It is also suggested that endemic warfare among the Iroquoian groups, as among other groups with similar types of corporate structures, is a logical outcome of competition for trade and personnel.
The Chronological Position of the CRS Site, Simcoe County, Ontario
Volume: OA28
Year: 1976
Author: BUSH, D. R.
Page Range: 17 – 32
Abstract: Through the application of the coefficient of similarity test (Emerson, 1966,1968) on the ceramics excavated from the CRS site, the chronological position and cultural affiliation of this site was established. The ceramic vessel and pipe analyses of the recovered materials indicate the site to be a very Late Prehistoric Huron village occupied between A.D. 1550 and A.D. 1580.
A Bibliography of Huron-Petun Archaeology
Volume: OA28
Year: 1976
Author: JACKSON, L. J.
Page Range: 33 – 69
Abstract: This bibliography is intended as a research guide for archaeologists studying the Huron-Petun branch of Iroquoian development in Ontario as chronologically and geographically delimited by J. V. Wright in his monograph The Ontario Iroquois Tradition (1966:66-7). A set of six main indices has been used to distinguish sub-areas of study. While this bibliography refers most specifically to the Huron and Petun, numerous references to related Iroquoian groups have been included for comparative purposes. The net result is coverage of Iroquoian developments in the Great Lakes region throughout the Late Woodland period.
Some Recent Developments in the Search for Early Man in Ontario
Volume: OA29
Year: 1978
Author: STORCK, Peter L.
Page Range: 3 – 16
Abstract: The long-term Royal Ontario Museum survey and excavation program focusing on the Early Man occupation of Ontario is briefly described. The results of the 1976 survey along the strandline of glacial Lake Algonquin and preliminary excavations at the Fisher site, a major Early Paleo-Indian base camp, are discussed.
Archaeological Investigations of the Pickering Phase in the Rice Lake Area
Volume: OA29
Year: 1978
Author: PEARCE, R. J.
Page Range: 17 – 24
Abstract: Analysis of Pickering materials housed at Trent University has led to the formulation of a newly defined regional manifestation of the Pickering Phase in the Rice Lake area. The excavation of the early Pickering Richardson site southeast of Rice Lake in 1976 provided a focal point from which this regional development could be studied, as well as contributed to the understanding of the Early Ontario Iroquois stage.
Excavation at the Glen Meyer Reid Site, Long Point, Lake Erie
Volume: OA29
Year: 1978
Author: WRIGHT, M. J.
Page Range: 25 – 32
Abstract: The Reid Site (AdHc-5), is a late (circa A.D. 1300) Glen Meyer village located two miles north of Long Point, Lake Erie. Excavations resulted in the definition of a one acre double palisaded village with six longhouse structures. Reid burial patterns provide the first substantial set of data regarding this little known aspect of Glen Meyer Culture. Preliminary analysis of the Reid Site artifacts, in conjunction with settlement and burial pattern, offers significant insight into the composition of late Glen Meyer Culture. Most significant, however, are the insights Reid offers with regard to the Glen Meyer/Pickering amalgamation question, and the resultant formation of the Middleport horizon of the Ontario Iroquois Tradition.
The Bruce Boyd Site: An Early Woodland Component in Southwestern Ontario
Volume: OA29
Year: 1978
Author: SPENCE, M. W., R. F. WILLIAMSON & J. H. DAWKINS
Page Range: 33 – 46
Abstract: The Bruce Boyd site is an Early Woodland burial area on a sand knoll near Long Point, Lake Erie. Excavation uncovered several burials and offerings with cache blades, Meadowood points, trapezoidal gorgets, galena, copper beads, copper bracelets, iron pyrites and red ochre. The ceramics were cordmarked on both interior and exterior, some of them also showing punctates on the lip and exterior rim.
The In Situ Analysis of Human Burials
Volume: OA29
Year: 1978
Author: SAUNDERS, S. R.
Page Range: 47 – 52
Abstract: Archaeologists often encounter isolated, stray burials on habitation sites. Recent studies have led to interesting cultural explanations for these burials on Ontario Iroquois sites and it is proposed that we reconsider our methods of observation of human burials in situ since careful, discriminating observation is a prerequisite for innovations in theory. Various techniques of data retrieval from in situ burials are discussed.
The Ball Site: A Preliminary Statement
Volume: OA29
Year: 1978
Author: KNIGHT, D.
Page Range: 53 – 63
Abstract: Ten weeks of excavation at the Ball Site, near Warminster, Ontario, have produced evidence of a large, permanently occupied proto-historic Huron village. The majority of the work has been directed toward understanding the settlement patterns of the site and includes partial or complete excavation of nine houses from three different areas indicating a homogenous rather than a heterogeneous occupation of the site. Rim sherd and pipe analysis suggest ca. A.D. 1600 as the date of occupation. The work has brought to light a number of problems, including the noticeable lack of bone material, the small number of pipe fragments, and only one deep midden deposit.
The Dragon Sideplate: Its Origins, Variations and Chronologies on Fur Trade Sites
Volume: OA30
Year: 1978
Author: REID, C. S.
Page Range: 3 – 15
Abstract: Three dragon sideplates from the Ash Rapids sites (DjKq-4, DjKq-5) on Lake of the Woods, together with a number of specimens from other Northern Ontario locations, are illustrated and compared to each other and to published data on dragon sideplates. The function, origins, variability and known chronologies of this type of sideplate are discussed, and the possibilities for using these artifacts as chronological aids in the analysis of contact and historic site materials are examined.
Ethnohistory and Archaeology
Volume: OA30
Year: 1978
Author: TRIGGER, B. G.
Page Range: 17 – 24
Abstract: The aim of this paper is to consider what ethnohistory is and what its future role may be, particularly in relationship to archaeology. There is no better way to begin than by examining the origin and early development of ethnohistory.
The Coates Creek Site: A Possible Late Paleo-Indian- Early-Archaic Site in Simcoe County, Ontario
Volume: OA30
Year: 1978
Author: STORCK, P. L.
Page Range: 25 – 46
Abstract: The Coates Creek site is a small hunting station situated on an abandoned strandline tentatively identified with Lake Ardtrea, the first of the so-called ‘upper group’ of post-Algonquin beaches. One side-notched projectile point appears to have a combination of Paleo-Indian and Archaic or later attributes. This, together with two lanceolate projectile point bases and three flake gravers, suggests that the site may have been occupied by peoples with both late Paleo-Indian and Early Archaic cultural affiliations.
The Mound Island Site: A Multi-Component Woodland Period Habitation Site in Northwestern Ontario
Volume: OA30
Year: 1978
Author: DAWSON, K. C. A.
Page Range: 47 – 66
Abstract: This report describes and analyses the recoveries from an exploratory examination of a multi-component Woodland period site located in the transitional forest some 40 miles west of Thunder Bay in Northwestern Ontario. The site was occupied in the late Initial Woodland period (circa A.D. 600 to A.D. 800) by carriers of the Laurel culture, then abandoned until about A.D. 1100 when it was again occupied for a short time in the Terminal Woodland period by carriers of the Algonkian culture. The latter occupants appear to be a grouping of the same people who in the historic period occupied the Nyman site on the north shore of Lake Superior.
Annotated Index of Ontario Archaeological Society Publications 1954-1978, Nos. 1-30
Volume: OA31
Year: 1979
Author: FAWCETT, C.
Page Range: 3 – 36
Abstract: No Abstract
Paleo-Indian Reconnaissance in the Counties of Lambton and Middlesex, Ontario
Volume: OA32
Year: 1979
Author: DELLER, D. B.
Page Range: 3 – 20
Abstract: A report on Paleo-Indian site surveys in southern Ontario presents hypotheses concerning settlement patterns, settlement strategies and the utilization oflithic materials. Reconnaissance techniques are described and the artifact inventories of sixty-four sites and locations are listed. Primarily, the report deals with locations yielding fluted points, but data on Plano and Hi-Lo components are also included.
Additional Paleo-Indian Biface Variability in Northwestern Ontario
Volume: OA32
Year: 1979
Author: ROSS, W. A.
Page Range: 21 – 25
Abstract: Two recently recovered bifaces, which can be assigned to the Paleo-Indian period, are reported from the Thunder Bay area. Their attributes are presented and comparisons are made with other reported Paleo-Indian refined bifaces from the region. The chronological placement of the artifacts is discussed.
A Report on the Human Burial from the Milton-Thomazi Site
Volume: OA32
Year: 1979
Author: KATZENBERG, M. A., & N. C. SULLIVAN
Page Range: 27 – 34
Abstract: In the spring of 1977 a well preserved human burial was discovered in Peel Country, Ontario. A radiocarbon date of 5910 ± 165 B.P. places the burial well within the Archaic period and indicates that it is the earliest dated human burial so far discovered in Ontario. The individual was a male over 50 years of age suffering from degenerative arthritis and periodontal disease. Metrics and indices are presented along with a general description of the burial, including evidence of pathology.
Archaic Population Affinities as Determined by Analysis of Cranial Morphology
Volume: OA32
Year: 1979
Author: PFEIFFER, S.
Page Range: 35 – 41
Abstract: Cranial material is analyzed from seven Archaic sites in the Great lakes and maritime regions dating from 5000 to 3400 B.P. Discrete morphological traits are used to arrive at a matrix of mean Measures of Distance. Results are then compared with those of a discriminant function analysis previously performed on the cranial measurements from the same samples It is concluded that Maritime and Laurentian skeletal materials are clearly distinct from one another, and that there are clearly affinities among at least some of the Laurentian and Old Copper samples.
The Hood Site: Longhouse Burials in an Historic Neutral Village
Volume: OA32
Year: 1979
Author: FITZGERALD, W. R.
Page Range: 43 – 60
Abstract: Excavations at the historic Neutral Hood Site produced the first discovery of burials within Neutral longhouses, and despite a relatively small sample size, certain inhumation patterns have been interpreted. A dichotomy between temporary and permanent burials has been proposed, based on the location within the longhouse, the presence or absence of grave goods, and the performance of sacrifice and associated ceremonialism. It has been suggested that certain age groups may have been permanently interred within the longhouse reflecting the belief that the souls of both the very young and old remained near the village after death instead of proceeding to the land of the souls. To this group I have added the chronically ill, through the examination of the osteological and archaeological data.
An Analysis of an Historic Huron Attignawantan Lithic Assemblage
Volume: OA32
Year: 1979
Author: FOX, W. A.
Page Range: 61 – 88
Abstract: A collection of stone tools and manufacturing debris from the historic Huron (Attignawantan) Robitaille village site is described and then compared to the proto-historic Maurice village site lithic assemblage. The combined observations are discussed in an attempt to elucidate temporal trends in Attignawantan stone working and lithic artifact imports, as well as the geographic extent of an early 17th century lithic commodity exchange system reflected in the Robitaille village assemblage.