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A Passion for the Past celebrates the late archaeologist James F. Pendergast. The book includes twenty-two essays on subjects ranging from archaeological ethnicity to Native perspectives on archaeology, and features several texts on the St. Lawrence Iroquoians, a...
Volume two examines such developments as the replacement of the earlier spearthrower by the bow and arrow, the introduction of pottery from the south, the importance of communal hunting of bison on the Plains, and the appearance of ranked societies on the West Coast....
Covering the history of First Peoples in Canada from 10,000 to 1000 BC, this volume explores a period which includes the original settlement of the Americas, cultural diversification, technological advances, expanding trade networks, and the development of complex...
Part 1 of the final volume of A History of the Native People of Canada treats eastern Canada and the southern Subarctic regions of the Prairies from A.D. 500 to European contact. It examines the association of archaeological sites with the Native peoples recorded in...
A number of aspects of the prehistory of northern Ontario are considered in these reports. Of central concern are the spatial variations of the Terminal Woodland ceramics and the evidence for the transition from the Laurel assemblage into Blackduck assemblage. Published...
The position of Lake Athabasca relative to the Plains, Boreal Forest, and Arctic physiographic zones, which have changed through time in response to climatic fluctuations, has resulted in cultures adapted to these three zones occupying areas of the lake during certain...
The Grant Lake site, located on the Dubawnt River in west-central Keewatin District, consists of a number of horizontally discrete living floors that pertain to the Agate Basin complex of the Palaeo-Indian period. It is proposed that the environment during the...
A report on the Nodwell Site, a mid-fourteenth century ancestral Huron-Petun village site, that was almost completely excavated in 1971 by a joint National Museum of Man and Royal Ontario Museum expedition. Published in English.
Examination of a multi-component caribou crossing site on the Thelon River, Keewatin District reveals a series of sequential occupations by different cultural and linguistic groups consisting of Algonkian-speakers (Shield Archaic tradition), followed by Eskimo-speakers...
During the occupation of this site, a lowering of the Lake Huron water level resulted in dramatic ecological changes that are clearly reflected in the subsistence pattern of the Archaic hunters and fishermen. Cultural continuity is seen to exist from the Archaic...
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