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Archaeobotanical and soil chemistry investigation of a woodland site on Whitefish Lake, Northwestern Ontario
(2017)Whitefish Lake is a large, shallow lake abundant in wild rice (Zizania palustris) that lies near the transitional zone between the Boreal Forest and Great Lakes-St. Lawrence forest regions of Northwestern Ontario. The ... -
Early evidence of maize (Zea mays ssp. mays) and beans (Phaseolus vulgaris) on the northern plains : an examination of Avonlea cultural materials (AD 300-1100)
(2013-02-03)The goal of this thesis is to reconstruct the plant component of paleodiet for the Avonlea complex (AD 300 – 1100 BP), an early ceramic-producing culture on the Northern Plains. Avonlea peoples have been assumed by ... -
An exploration of image recognition in archaeological starch analysis
(2023)The goal of this thesis was to produce a statistical method of assigning species to starch granules recovered from eastern North American archaeological assemblages. Starch grain analysis is an archaeobotanical tool that ... -
Late Holocene paleovegetation and fire history of Northern Lake of the Woods and the Woodland Period
(2023)This thesis analyzes two Late Holocene lake sediment cores which were collected from the vicinity of two archaeological sites in northeastern Lake of the Woods, Ontario: the Bundoran Site (DjKn-5) and the Bud Site (DjKn-6). ... -
Macrobotanical and zooarchaeological examination of the macgillivray site (DbJm-3): a woodland period habitation in Northwestern Ontario
(2021)The Macgillivray site (DbJm-3) is located on an island in Whitefish Lake, approximately 50 km southwest of Thunder Bay, Ontario in the central Canadian Boreal Forest ecozone. Indigenous people have lived in this area for ... -
Middle holocene archaeology and paleoenvironments of the Thunder Bay region, Lake Superior basin
(2012-11-10)This thesis describes the analysis of a deeply buried peat deposit discovered in a cutbank along the Kaministiquia River near Thunder Bay, Ontario. This exposure yielded a large sample of well-preserved plant macrofossils ... -
Paleoecology of a wild rice (Zizania spp.) lake in Northwestern Ontario
(2018)The high density of archaeological sites around Whitefish Lake, coupled with abundant wild rice currently growing there circumstantially indicates that this resource was economically important to precontact people. This ... -
Plant microfossil analysis of middle woodland food residues, northern Minnesota
(2014-12-12)Northern Minnesota lies within the southern edge of the Boreal Forest and, as a result, archaeological sites in this region typically have poor organic preservation and thin, disturbed, stratigraphy. For this reason, little ... -
Quaternary sedimentology east of Thunder Bay, Ontario; implications for five Paleoindian sites
(2014-01-22)A geoarchaeological investigation was north of Highway 11/17, 34km east of Thunder Bay, Ontario. Five archaeological sites (Mackenzie 1, Mackenzie 2, RLF, Woodpecker 1, and Woodpecker 2) and seven additional sediment exposures ... -
Residue analysis of pre-contact small and miniature pottery: a multi-proxy approach
(2019)Small and miniature pottery vessels are common in North American archaeological sites, although they have rarely been the focus of study. These vessels are variously interpreted to be mortuary or ceremonial vessels, ...