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The Huron and Lalonde Occupations of Ontario*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

Frank Ridley
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This will report the results of several years' search for historical sites in Simcoe County, Province of Ontario, in the area where the historic villages of the Huron were located. In the course of this work, certain aboriginal artifacts were found to be numerous on many sites but did not occur on others. In view of the current assumption of homogeneity for Iroquoian material in this area, the presence of a multiple artifact complex presented an interesting field for archaeological activity. Evidence of two cultural horizons accumulated as more sites were visited and more material marked and segregated, until finally in the summer of 1949 artifacts of two types were found in a stratified position on the Fallis site. Herewith I wish to give a brief description and grouping of the sites, and of their aboriginal material.

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Research Article
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 17 , Issue 3 , January 1952 , pp. 197 - 210
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1952

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Footnotes

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The writer is indebted to K. E. Kidd of the Royal Ontario Museum of Archeology, for allowing him to examine and use material in that institution, and for a patient and enduring friendship that has influenced him toward an appreciation of aboriginal archaeology on a higher plane than that of a collector. I also wish to thank W. Todd, preparator of the Royal Ontario Museum of Archeology, for information on technique and material for restoring the illustrated vessels, and R. Harper of the same museum for help and criticism. Gordon Wright and Alfred K. Guthe of the Rochester Museum, and Charles Wray of that city, kindly showed me their collections of Iroquois artifacts, thereby contributing greatly to my knowledge of New York area types. Albert Spaulding, of the University of Michigan, showed me material from territory peripheral to the Iroquoian area. James B. Griffin, of the same university, has kindly criticised the first draft of this report and thereby aided much in its clarification. Griffin also showed me the interesting Susquehanna origin of a historic Huron pot style. To J. Smith, Douglas Bell and Steele who so kindly showed me their specimens recovered from the Neutral Area, and to D. Ouellette who led me to his sites near Thunder Bay, I extend thanks. D. M. McGuire of Elmvale, Ontario, has added much to my knowledge by the many discussions we have had on the subject of this paper. McGuire also generously allowed me to examine and take notes of his large collection of Indian artifacts. W. J. Fallis, the owner of the Fallis site, consented to my operations on his farm, and here I thank him for his courtesy. Not least was the help of my wife and daughter, who share the pleasures and ordeals (including poison ivy), that pertain to archaeology as an avocation.

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