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...
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...
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...
