by Bill Finlayson | Aug 16, 2019 | Archaeology, Draper Site, History, Ontario
One of the aspects of planning the excavations of the Draper Site in 1975 was negotiating a contract between The University of Western Ontario and the National Museum of Man, since the museum had obtained funds from Transport Canada to support the excavations. In... 
by Bill Finlayson | Jun 14, 2019 | Archaeology, Draper Site, History, Ontario
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 | Archaeology, Bill Finlayson, Draper Site, History
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...