The Chew Site (BeGx-9): The Chew Site (BeGx-9): A Case Study in the Value of Archived Collections
Volume: OA95
Year: 2015
Authors:  Bonnie Glencross, GaryWarrick, Katherine Anderson, Stefanie MacKinnon,
Shannon Millar, and Samantha Patterson
Page Range: 3- 20
Abstract: The Chew site (BeGx-9) is located in Penetanguishene, Ontario. The only known artifact collection was
acquired during 1972 excavations by a local high school. The collection, housed at Sainte-Marie among the
Hurons, had not been documented except for site registration purposes. In the context of a Wilfrid Laurier
University archaeological field school in May and June 2014, four senior undergraduate students examined
and reported on the collection for a course credit. The students discovered that the Chew site collection contains
artifacts relating to the late fifteenth- and early seventeenth-centuryWendat village occupations, as well as to
nineteenth century use. This paper will present the results of the artifact analyses and discuss the ongoing
educational and evidential value of archived collections to the Huron-Wendat and to Ontario archaeology
and history.

Ethnogenesis in the Lower Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Region
Volume: OA95
Year: 2015
Author: William Fox
Page Range: 21- 32
Abstract: Historical documentary sources are combined with archaeological evidence in an attempt to understand the
ethnogenesis of lower Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River valley indigenous populations over a four-hundredyear
period, culminating with the sustained European contact of the early seventeenth century. LateWoodland
archaeological evidence from southeastern Ontario and adjacent Quebec is presented in an attempt to document
the evolving relationship between Algonquian speaking groups and their Iroquoian neighbours to the east and
west.

“Roger, I think I’ve Found It”: Archaeological Investigations of the Aarel Site
(BjGp-2), A Nineteenth-Century Camboose Shanty in Algonquin Provincial Park
Volume: OA95
Year: 2015
Author: Roderick I. MacKay
Page Range: 33- 64
Abstract: The remains of a camboose shanty dating from about 1871 were located in Algonquin Provincial Park. Some
camboose shanty remains in the park have been “explored” for artifacts by woods-workers or canoeists, but this
site appears to have been undisturbed in that manner. Excavations were carried out periodically between 2008
and 2012 to examine the hearth and living areas inside the foundation mound footprint and the immediate
surrounding area. The artifacts, and historical documents, suggest that the shanty was operated by the Perley
and Pattee Lumber Company of Ottawa. Although the shanty itself appears to be “complete,” the outbuildings
that should be associated with it are absent or have not yet been located. It is here suggested that such logging
period structures should be investigated with a degree of urgency, before erosion and other environmental factors
further modify the archaeological record.

Huron-Wendat Sweat Baths
Volume: OA95
Year: 2015
Authors:  Allen Tyyska
Page Range: 64- 78
Abstract: The clusters of tiny posts that appear regularly in the middle of Huron-Wendat longhouses are in need of
explication. In this paper, the archaeological record of their variance in size and structure at Cahiagué along
with the documentary record of small posts in the centre of house structures are used to identify them as
sequentially used, temporarily erected and dismantled, sweat baths. Their appearance at about the same time
as communal ossuaries suggests they were powerful social integrative mechanisms, situated historically in a
complex of ceremonial paraphernalia including pipes, tobacco, and smoking. The period of their evolution
coincides with the appearance of larger palisaded villages perhaps resulting from greater stresses and conflicts
with other Iroquoians and the concomitant need for more powerful ways of integrating increasing numbers of
people living together. The practice of sweating was an important institution at a time when Huron-Wendat
people were effectively redefining their operating concepts of community.

Profile: A.J. Clark: A Life in Art and Archaeology
Volume: OA95
Year: 2015
Author:  Martin S. Cooper and George W.J. Duncan
Page Range: 79- 88

Book Review: Caribou Hunting in the Upper Great Lakes:
Archaeological, Ethnographic, and Paleoenvironmental Perspectives
Volume: OA95
Year: 2015
Authors:  Arthur E. Spiess
Page Range: 89- 92

Book Review: Rethinking Colonial Pasts Through Archaeology
Volume: OA95
Year: 2015
Author: Gary Warrick
Page Range: 93- 96