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This study defines an early Late Woodland manifestation in southwestern Ontario, the Princess Point Complex.This complex is seen as an early developmental stage of the Ontario Iroquois Tradition. Evidence is presented for changing subsistence and settlement patterns in...
The Saugeen culture of southwestern Ontario (circa 700 B.C and 800 A.D.) is examined at intrasite and intersite levels of comparisons. It is suggested that the Saugeen, Point Peninsula and North Bay cultures should be considered as Middle Tier cultures which interacted...
The Majorville is a large cairn located in the centre of a medicine wheel, situated south of Bassano, Alberta, on the banks of the Bow River. Stratigraphic excavation indicates initial construction in Oxbow times, with additional accretions ending in the Historic...
A model relating human cognition to the decisions made in tool manufacture is advanced as a substitute for those approaches to artifact classification which rely only on morphology. The model is related to experiments designed to link specific input conditions (in stone...
A study of technology, subsistence and settlement patterns of the late Pre-Dorset people who occupied a large coastal site near Churchill, Manitoba around 3,000 years ago. Published in English.
Using selected ceramic attributes from twenty-eight prehistoric and historic Iroquoian sites in Ontario an attempt is made to demonstrate the existence of clustering of historically related sites. These data are then used to outline the economic and political processes...
Excavations in 1971 and 1972 reveal two major occupation levels at the Estuary Bison Pound site, located near the head of a large coulee on the south bank of the South Saskatchewan River, just below its confluence with the Red Deer River. They present strong evidence to...
A contribution to the archaeological identification of the Beothuks, this study presents data on the settlement pattern and lithic assemblage from four coastal sites in Bonavista Bay, Newfoundland. Radiocarbon dates ranging from A.D. 210 to 905 suggests that this bay,...
The origin and development of historic Caribou Inuit culture from prehistoric classic Thule is explained using archaeological and ethnohistorical evidence. Published in English.
This study is an analysis and functional interpretation of the cultural remains from a Middle Period bison hunters’ campsite situated in the parklands of central Saskatchewan. The Harder site, excavated by the author during 1969, 1970, 1971 and 1972, and radiocarbon...
An examination of social cognitive patterning from the perspective of a Mackenzie drainage Dene community with additional discussion of related topics, including communication, learning, and classification. Published in English.
More than fifty informants were consulted in this study of the folklife and folklore of the Russian-German Mennonites who settled the Saskatchewan Valley north of Saskatoon in the late nineteenth century. Emphasis is placed upon the role of religion in the continuity of...
A review of the activities of the Archaeological Survey of Canada for the years 1975 and 1976. Published in English.
Based on the oral testimony of almost forty informants, this text describes the cultural traditions of the loggers, construction workers, and other skilled tradesmen and their families who emigrated from northern Sweden in the early twentieth century to take up farming...
This volume consists of a series of papers that examine various aspects, archaeological and ethnographic, of the interior Inuit and their neighbours of northern Alaska. Published in English.
A compilation of thirteen papers dealing with the techniques of excavation, kinds of artifacts recovered and methods of preservation of perishable materials from water-saturated sites of the Northwest Coast, originally presented at the 29th Annual Northwest...
Black Lake was occupied on a discontinuous basis from approximately 6000 B.C. to the historic period by cultures originating from a number of different physiographic zones. An economical model outlines the historic and late prehistoric dependance of the Chipewyan on the...
This thesis attempts to delineate a cultural-chronological sequence from northwestern Ontario extending from the historic period to approximately 5000 B.C. Four phases representing three cultural traditions are defined. Published in English.
Description of a unique style of bison pound, involving enlargement and modification of a natural depression near the edge of a deep coulee. Analysis of data indicates the major period of site occupancy occurred between circa 150 to 965 A.D. during the Avonlea and Old...
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