Before Ontario : the archaeology of a province / edited by Marit K. Munson and Susan M. Jamieson.

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Jamieson, Susan M. (Editor)
Munson, Marit K. (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Montréal & Kingston : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2013]
Series:McGill-Queen's native and northern series ; 72.
Subjects:
Antiquities.
Paleo-Indians > Antiquities.
Woodland Indians > Antiquities.
Lithic people > Ontario > Antiquities.
Woodland people > Ontario > Antiquities.
Ontario > Antiquities.
Ontario.
Physical Description:xvi, 242 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), maps (some colour), portraits (chiefly colour) ; 26 cm.
Issued also in electronic format.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Water and land / Andrew M. Stewart
  • Before pottery: Paleoindian and archaic hunter-gatherers / Christopher J. Ellis
  • The Woodland period, 900 BCE to 1700 CE / Ronald F. Williamson
  • The Aboriginal population of Ontario in late prehistory / Gary Warrick
  • A world apart? Ontario's Canadian shield / Scott Hamilton
  • Place, space and dwelling in the late Woodland / Neal Ferris
  • Animals and archaeologies / Suzanne Needs-Howarth
  • Plants and the archaeology of the invisible / Stephen G. Monckton
  • Stories of stone and metal / William Fox
  • Pots and pipes: artifacts made from clay / Mima Kapches
  • The living landscape / Cath Oberholtzer
  • Social and political lives / Susan M. Jamieson
  • Skeletal evidence of health and disease among Iroquoians / Anne Keenleyside
  • Death and burial in Woodland times / Michael W. Spence
  • An Aboriginal perspective / Kris Nahrgang.