Our Lands Speak: An Unusual Grave Marker from Ivanhoe Lake

Archaeology is a fascinating industry that I am thankful to be a part of. You never know what you might find next, this week’s discussion is no exception. In March 2001, I took early retirement from the London Museum of Archaeology and began to explore the possibility of conducting research on Hudson’s Bay Posts in […]

Our Lands Speak: Technique to Collect Preserved Plant Remains

Find out how we recover seeds and plant samples from an archaeologic site with a technique called flotation.

Our Lands Speak: Exposing Unique Indigenous Artifacts at Patterson Village

Patterson Village continues to present new and fascinating discoveries. This week we discuss a feature which appears to be a unique find in excavations in southern Ontario. Since 2006, the majority of our work has been east of the Niagara Escarpment. It is there we worked on two Huron-Wendat villages occupied prior to about 1500 […]