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- Title
Problem-Based Magnetometer Survey at the Late Archaic Davidson Site (AhHk-54) in Southwestern Ontario.
- Authors
Eastaugh, Edward; Ellis, Christopher; Hodgetts, Lisa; Keron, James R.
- Abstract
A recent magnetometer survey from the Late Archaic Davidson Site (AhHk-54) demonstrates the potential of this technique in understanding hunter-gatherer occupations in the Great Lakes Region, and contributes to our understanding of temporal change in the spatial use of the site. Davidson was investigated to test the long held, but little substantiated notion that the Late Archaic represents a time of reduced seulement mobility. Hundreds of features, including storage pits, earth ovens, hearths and the remains of some of the oldest known houses in the Great Lakes region were iden-tified using the magnetometer and indicate that the site is much larger and more complex than previously believed. Ground-truthing of these results through excavation and coring, combined with repeated field-walking of the site to map artifact distributions, allows us to document more fully the extent of intact deposits, the site setting at the time of the occupation and changes in site function and use from the Broad Point to Small Point (Terminal) Archaic. Our findings indicate that more widespread use of geophysical survey techniques on Canadian archaeological sites has the potential to contribute not only to a deeper understanding of the archaeological record, but also to the development of archaeogeophysics from its traditional role in site prospection to more problem-based, theoretically informed applications.
- Subjects
SOUTHWESTERN Ontario; ONTARIO; ARCHAEOLOGICAL surveying; MAGNETOMETERS; ARCHAEOLOGICAL excavations; HOLES; GEOPHYSICAL surveys; ANTIQUES
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Archaeology, 2013, Vol 37, Issue 2, p274
- ISSN
0705-2006
- Publication type
Article