Books

Ronald F. Williamson and Susan Pfeiffer
In 1997, an Iroquoian ossuary dating to the thirteenth century containing the remains of at least 87 people was accidentally discovered in Toronto. The pit was excavated and recorded. Detailed mapping of the...
Paul Litt, Ronald Williamson and Joseph Whitehorne
Published by Dundurn Press (1993), this is a popular account of a contemporary archaeological project, the story of the skeletons it uncovered and a revealing parable of the conflicts that arise when pressures...
Frank Dieterman and Ron Williamson
Government on Fire presents a lively account of the discovery and delineation of an important historical and archaeological site for Toronto and beyond. It also suggests some lessons for urban planners and heritage...
R. Williamson and R. MacDonald (Editors)
ASI has been involved in a massive archaeological project surrounding the Peace Bridge in Fort Erie, Ontario. Hidden below the surface of the roads, sidewalks, lawns and parking lots were over a million...
Ron Williamson and Rob MacDonald
Co-authored by Ron Williamson and Rob MacDonald, and published in association with the Buffalo and Fort Erie Public Bridge Authority and eastendbooks. Legacy of Stone was the winner of the Ontario Archaeological Society (OAS)...
Alec McLellan
This book offers us new data about Lamanai and Ka’kabish, two Ancient Maya sites that thrived during the collapse of the Southern Lowlands in the Late to Terminal Classic periods (AD 650-1000). Introducing...
Ronald F Williamson and Christopher M. Watts
Taming the Taxonomy is the published proceedings of the 1997 joint Ontario Archaeological Society and Midwestern Archaeological Conference symposium. This publication, which was co-edited by Chris Watts and Ron Williamson, was a joint...
Ronald F. Williamson and Michael S. Bisson (Editors)
Published by McGill-Queen’s University Press in 2006, The Archaeology of Bruce Trigger is edited by Ronald F. Williamson and Michael S. Bisson and provides the reader with a chance to view how one...
R. Williamson and D. Robertson (editors)
In the late 1980s, there arose an opportunity to address the lack of published data on the Parsons site, when a proposed watermain route threatened the site. In order to mitigate the impacts...
Dr. Jennifer Birch and Dr. Ron Williamson
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...
Ronald F Williamson (Editor)
Available through the London Chapter of the Ontario Archaeological Society. This volume represents an analysis of the settlement, subsistence and artifactual data recovered by Archaeological Services Inc. at a late thirteenth through early...
Lanna Crucefix
Northwest of Finch Avenue and Keele Street in North York, on a promontory overlooking Black Creek, there is more evidence of Ontario’s fascinating archaeological heritage. Parsons (AkGv-8) is a Late Iroquoian (mid- to...
Ronald F. Williamson (Editor), Chris Andreae, Carl Benn, Peter J. Carruthers, Roger Hall, Robert MacDonald
From the final retreat of the Laurentide Ice Sheet to its emergence as a Canada’s leading city, this book explores the evolution of Toronto over the past 12,000 years. Five knowledgeable historians have...