@article {9550,
	title = {Evidence for Short-Term Resource Procurement Events at the Spillsbury Bay Site, Rice Lake, Ontario},
	journal = {Canadian Journal of Archaeology/Journal canadien d{\textquoteright}arch{\'e}ologie},
	volume = {30},
	year = {2006},
	pages = {73-100},
	abstract = {<p>Small sites, where short-term events may be distinguished, are a valuable part of the archaeological record as they provide resolution at the level of individual events. Such resolution yields insight into the patterning of cultural material and the decisions made by individuals in the past. Excavations at the Spillsbury Bay site, on Rice Lake in south-central Ontario, were conducted with the aim of demonstrating an occupation during the late Middle Woodland period and of exploring the nature of that occupation in terms of settlement, subsistence, and material culture. The results reported here met those objectives and identified the site as a short-term, resource procurement locale, linked to larger base camps within the regional settlement pattern. In terms of subsistence, a shift from shellfish collection to fishing and hunting is evident over time. Artifact clusters also provide the opportunity to explore occupation events and the choices made by individual potters in ceramic manufacture. These choices centred around the visual impression the potter created in decorating a vessel rather than the specific tool used to apply that decoration.</p>},
	author = {Jenneth E. Curtis}
}
