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Title Before Ontario : the archaeology of a province / edited by Marit K. Munson and Susan M. Jamieson
Published Montreal [Quebec] ; Kingston [Ontario] : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2013]
Beaconsfield, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 242 pages) : illustrations (some colour), maps
Series McGill-Queen's native and northern series ; 72
McGill-Queen's native and northern series ; 72.
Contents Introduction: Seeing Ontario's Past Archaeologically / Neal Ferris -- Part I A Land before Ontario. 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
Part II Telling Archaeological Stories. Place, Space, and Dwelling in the Late Woodland / Neal Ferris Animals and Archaeologists / Suzanne Needs-Howarth -- Plants and the Archaeology of the Invisible / Stephen G. Monckton -- Stories in Stone and Metal / William Fox -- The Living Landscape / Cath Oberholtzer -- Pots and Pipes: Artifacts Made from Clay / Mima Kapches -- 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
Summary A lively and accessible introduction to Ontario's Aboriginal past, from the province's leading archaeologists
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-231) and index
Notes Part II The Last (But Not Final) Word. An Aboriginal Perspective / Kris Nahrgang
Subject HISTORY -- Canada -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology.
Antiquities
SUBJECT Ontario -- Antiquities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85094822
Subject Ontario
Form Electronic book
Author Jamieson, Susan M., editor
Munson, Marit K., editor
ISBN 9780773589193
0773589198