Abstract

In June 1991, the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and the Centre for Archaeological Resource Prediction at Lakehead University initiated a research project to develop predictive models of prehistoric settlement location in the boreal forest north of Thunder Bay, Ontario. A GIS based predictive-modelling approach will be developed using a wide variety of sources including existing archaeological data, new archaeological survey data, informant data, ethnographic/historic data and geographical/geomorphological data. This paper will present the results of the first year of this project.