by Bill Finlayson | May 27, 2020 | Draper and Duffin Creek Archaeology
In a previous blog, The Draper Site: An Expanding Village, I detailed the expansion of the Draper site as it grew from a small community comprised of about 8 longhouses to become a very large village comprised of 41 structures. In this blog and the next, I will...
by Bill Finlayson | Apr 29, 2020 | Draper and Duffin Creek Archaeology
I ended last month’s post with this statement “One never knows what unusual artifacts are to be found in the collections at sites such as Draper and what new insights will result from their study.” Fittingly, I continue with another extraordinary set of findings we...
by Bill Finlayson | Mar 24, 2020 | Draper and Duffin Creek Archaeology
You may recall from previous blogs that I personally believe that the people who lived at the Draper site were Ontario Iroquoians who were not Huron-Wendat, but a group of Iroquoian-speaking peoples similar to the Huron-Wendat. The Huron Wendat were one of three...