King’s Point Site
Sailboats gently bob in the sun, fastened to docks awaiting the perfect wind. Tourists cycle and walk where the lake meets the river. It has always been a spot where people come to enjoy the water. Hundreds of years ago – even thousands of years ago – where sailboats flutter by and tourists soak up the sun, Ontario’s First […]
Dollery Site
Urban archaeological fieldwork conducted in the hustle and bustle of the big city can be exciting. The potential exists to uncover some extremely complex sites created over decades and centuries of development, demolition and rebuilding. As people live their lives on small parcels of inner city land, the parcels are changed by their daily activities. […]
Visualizing Variation Within and Between Ceramic Types: A Clustering Approach
Ceramic analysts assign types to vessels based on observations of exhibited attributes. Types can materialize in a variety of finite ways (see figure 1), and various types have temporal associations as well as sociocultural meaning dependant on context. Types are assigned via outlines in the existing literature, within the framework of the analyst’s experience. This […]
Geospatial Data on Parade
In 2011, as part of a film project for History Television commemorating the bicentennial anniversary of the War of 1812, ASI conducted an archaeological investigation at Fort York’s central parade ground to determine the location of the Government House. This work included a historic map review, LIDAR survey, Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) survey, and archaeological […]
An Early 20th Century Man with Advanced Tertiary Syphilis
This poster presents a case study of a man with advanced tertiary syphilis who was judicially hanged in the early 20th century and was encountered during a 2008 archaeological assessment by ASI at the Old Don Jail in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The Old Don Jail was in operation from 1862 until 1977. This individual was one of […]
Examining Statistical Differences Between Standard Osteological Measurements Taken in Situ versus a Laboratory Setting: Preliminary Results
Legislative parameters governing bioarchaeological projects undertaken by cultural resource management (CRM) companies often dictate the type of analysis conducted. In situations where analysis cannot be executed in a laboratory setting due to policy restrictions or reasons of expediency, researchers turn to conducting analysis in the field. This study aims to determine if there is a […]
Geophysical Survey Applications To The CRM Industry In Ontario
Geophysical survey applications to cultural resource management (CRM) archaeology have been underused and underappreciated in most planning jurisdictions in Ontario. As a result, there has been little desire to incorporate geophysical applications into professional standards, given a general lack of confidence or understanding of proper methodologies by the approval and regulatory authorities (Lockhart and Green […]
Hidden Spring Site
Discovered in Thornhill, Ontario, the 2008 Stage 4 archaeological mitigation of the Hidden Spring site yielded a settlement pattern consisting of two overlapping longhouses, two middens, and several exterior activity areas of a late fifteenth-century ancestral Huron-Wendat special purpose or cabin site.
Holly Site
Located on Bear Creek in Barrie, the Holly site is an early fourteenth century A.D. ancestral Wendat village that was also inhabited by Algonquian people. Excavations at the site were conducted in advance of subdivision development.
Holmedale Site
Holmedale is a Transitional Woodland period site excavated by ASI in the City of Brantford in 1996. The site was occupied from 985-1020 A.D. and yielded 722 posts and 63 features, including Princess Point Tradition artifacts.