Abstract

The Crowfield site near London, Ontario, excavated in the 1980s, is a small typical Palaeoindian campsite except for the presence of a plough-truncated pit feature associated with thousands of pieces of at least 182 functional, but purposefully burned and destroyed, stone artifacts. This paper reports on the spatial distribution of artifact pieces within the feature. Plotting of individual tool classes reveals that they are not randomly distributed. These data indicate that some tool classes we recognize match the conceptions of the Palaeoindian peoples themselves, show the material was sorted and carefully placed in the feature, supports the idea the items were burned where found, suggests that it is more likely the items represent an individual's tool kit rather than contributions from several individuals, and for the first time provides direct evidence that Palaeoindians transported their tool kits around sorted into types used for different purposes.