Huronia Chapter of the Ontario Archaeology Society

Win a free radiocarbon date from A.E. Lalonde AMS Lab! Apply for our Radiocarbon Date Merit Award. Deadline Friday, April 30, 2021. For more info and how to apply: https://www.apaontario.ca/c14Awards

The next ZOOM meeting of the London Chapter, Ontario Archaeological Society will be held on Thursday, March 11th, 2021, as always beginning at 7:30 PM meeting. ...The speaker will be: Dr. Darrin Lowery, Research Associate, Smithsonian Institution, who will be ZOOMING into us from Michigan. His presentation is entitled: Late Pleistocene Geoarchaeology: A Long-Term Collective Investigation of Eroding Coastal Landforms in the Middle Atlantic Region. Dr. Lowery will discuss his ground breaking work in Maryland and Virginia on sites exposed by coastal erosion around Chesapeake Bay and vicinity where he has discovered 10,000+ year old sites with fluted points and also what are some of the best candidates for even earlier Pre-Clovis sites ever reported. If you are not on the chapter email mailing list please contact [email protected] if you want to be sent a link to the ZOOM meeting session.

The 2021 Annual Symposium is still looking for Session and Workshop Proposals. It will be entirely virtual and will be held by our Ottawa Chapter this year betw...een October 18-24, 2021! With the twin themes of Origins and Growth, they wish to invite session and workshop proposals which give cause to pause and evaluate the roads we have collectively traveled as an organization, as a profession, and as a discipline in our privileged access to the past, while simultaneously exploring the potential for growth in the future of the discipline. Check out our website for more details: https://www.ontarioarchaeology.org/2021-OAS-Symposium/ Deadline for Session and Workshop Proposals and Abstracts: April 2, 2021 The call for paper and poster abstracts will be issued April 7, 2021.

CRM Archaeology in Canada

CRM Archaeology in Canada

We had a great time last night with our OAS Special Speaker, Sarah Clarke, talking about Historical Research and Freedom-Seekers in St. Catherine's. Missed the ...talk? We will have resources from that talk up shortly. Otherwise, you can join us next week, June 9th @ 7 pm to hear from Rob Wojtowicz, Field Operations Coordinator for ASI. He has been analyzing Tionontate ceramics from Charlie Garrad’s avocational collections. Learn about his research with an introduction to ceramic analysis next week. Register here: https://zoom.us//regi/tJwtfu-upz4vHtcj3tqhuLA7YQR8wy7uqLJX Password: 1950 #Ontario #Ontarioarchaeology #Ontarioarchaeologicalsociety #ontariocanada #oasarchaeology #oas #Archaeology #archaeologylife #archaeologist #archaeologists #archaeologystudent #archaeological #archaeologia #archaeologylovers #archaeologistslife #archaeologyrocks #archaeologicalexcavation #archaeolife #crm

Please note - Due to precautions re the spread of the Covid 19 virus we have cancelled our April 8th members meeting.Please note - Due to precautions re the spread of the Covid 19 virus we have cancelled our April 8th members meeting.

2020 edition of Iroquoia Call for Submissions and ReviewersArticles are sought for Iroquoia's sixth issue. Your scholarly papers on any subject related to the Haudenosaunee are most welcome. Disciplines such as history, anthropology, archaeology, linguistics, art, literature, ecology, political science, and education may be appropriate formats for articles. This is a peer-reviewed publication. Your article will be sent to three anonymous peer reviewers. Please allow time for their thoughtful responses.

As a result of our AGM and election of our chapter executive our executive for 2020 are President - John Raynor, Secretary - Peter Davis, Treasurer - Victoria Brooks-Elder and Member at Large - James Stuart.

Please note that our AGM and election meeting scheduled for Dec 11th has been cancelled due to weather warnings for tomorrow night. The meeting has been rescheduled to our regular meeting night January 8th 2020.

Sad news - A friend and long time chapter member Gary DuBeau past away suddenly with a massive heart attack this AM at his home in Perkinsfield. More info re his final arrangements will follow when available.

Save the date for our October 9th meeting

A little background to the Ellery/Bowman site done by one of our members.

For our next chapter meeting on September 11th for a presentation by Jim Shropshire on his research into the evolution of the three earliest buildings at the Jesuit mission of Sainte Marie I, based on Kenneth Kidd’s archaeological excavations of the site from 1940 to 1941.