The Mantle Site: An Archaeological History of a Huron-Wendat Community

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 small villages into one well-planned and well-integrated community. Birch and Williamson frame the development of this community in the context of a […]

The Parsons Site

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 late fifteenth century) village site. Though the entire site has not been excavated, an indication of the site’s richness is seen from […]