Before Ontario: The Archaeology of a Province 9780773589193
A lively and accessible introduction to Ontario's Aboriginal past, from the province’s leading archaeologists.
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English Pages 224 [261] Year 2013
Table of contents :
BEFORE ONTARIO
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Figures
Sidebars
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Seeing Ontario’s Past Archaeologically
Part I: A Land before Ontario
1. Water and Land
2. Before Pottery: Paleoindian and Archaic Hunter-Gatherers
3. The Woodland Period, 900 BCE to 1700 CE
4. The Aboriginal Population of Ontario in Late Prehistory
5. A World Apart? Ontario’s Canadian Shield
Part II: Telling Archaeological Stories
6. Place, Space, and Dwelling in the Late Woodland
7. Animals and Archaeologists
8. Plants and the Archaeology of the Invisible
9. Stories in Stone and Metal
10. Pots and Pipes: Artifacts Made from Clay
11. The Living Landscape
12. Social and Political Lives
13. Skeletal Evidence of Health and Disease among Iroquoians
14. Death and Burial in Woodland Times
Part III: The Last (But Not Final) Word
15. An Aboriginal Perspective
References
Index
