Abstract

In the past year several new sites in the central Georgian Bay region of the southern Canadian Shield have been registered in the Ontario database. This region, particularly the interior of the region, previously had numerous Borden blocks with absolutely no registrations. This paper will provide a brief overview of some of the sites and show how, from these modest beginnings, a framework is emerging about possible new issues to be included in the study of the context in which the region's Archaic peoples and post contact Anishnabeg fishers lived. The presentation will include data about possible correlations of some Archaic sites with ancient lake levels and observations about the importance of the wind and long sight lines, rock features of some sacred sites and reasons for the choice of certain interior travel routes. Slides of LandSat imagery, artifacts and sites will be presented.