Before Ontario : the archaeology of a province / edited by Marit K. Munson and Susan M. Jamieson. - [CEL version. - Montreal [Quebec] ; Kingston [Ontario] : McGill-Queen's University Press, (c)2013. Beaconsfield, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, (c)2013. - 1 online resource (xvi, 242 pages) : illustrations (some colour), maps. - McGill-Queen's native and northern series ; 72 .

Part II The Last (But Not Final) Word. An Aboriginal Perspective /

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction: Seeing Ontario's Past Archaeologically / Part I A Land before Ontario. Water and Land / Before Pottery: Paleoindian and Archaic Hunter-Gatherers / The Woodland Period, 900 BCE to 1700 CE / The Aboriginal Population of Ontario in Late Prehistory / A World Apart? Ontario's Canadian Shield / Neal Ferris -- Andrew M. Stewart -- Christopher J. Ellis -- Ronald F. Williamson -- Gary Warrick -- Scott Hamilton Part II Telling Archaeological Stories. Place, Space, and Dwelling in the Late Woodland / Plants and the Archaeology of the Invisible / Stories in Stone and Metal / The Living Landscape / Pots and Pipes: Artifacts Made from Clay / Social and Political Lives / Skeletal Evidence of Health and Disease among Iroquoians / Death and Burial in Woodland Times / Neal Ferris Animals and Archaeologists / Suzanne Needs-Howarth -- Stephen G. Monckton -- William Fox -- Cath Oberholtzer -- Mima Kapches -- Susan M. Jamieson -- Anne Keenleyside -- Michael W. Spence

A lively and accessible introduction to Ontario's Aboriginal past, from the province's leading archaeologists.



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Electronic Books.

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