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The Draper Site: An Expanding Village

The Draper Site: An Expanding Village

by Bill Finlayson | Jun 25, 2019 | Draper and Duffin Creek Archaeology

Our 1975 and 1978 excavations at the Draper Site revealed many fascinating aspects about this Iroquoian village which has traditionally been dated to about 1450-1500 A.D. Forty years after completion of our work, Draper remains one of the most significant excavations...
Digging Middens on the Draper Site

Digging Middens on the Draper Site

by Bill Finlayson | Jun 14, 2019 | Draper and Duffin Creek Archaeology

In my last two blog posts, Digging for Houses and Palisades Part 1 and Part 2, I discussed how we explored large areas of the Draper site to discover the remains of the longhouses and palisades which had been preserved in the yellow-brown subsoil. This represented...
Digging for Houses and Palisades at the Draper Site, Part 2

Digging for Houses and Palisades at the Draper Site, Part 2

by Bill Finlayson | Jun 3, 2019 | Draper and Duffin Creek Archaeology

In Digging for Houses and Palisades, Part 1, I discussed how we traced the outlines of houses and palisades on a portion of the Draper site which had been farm fields for more than a century. Draper was somewhat unusual in that most of the site was located in what had...

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