The next ZOOM meeting of the London Chapter, Ontario Archaeological Society will be held on Thursday, March 11th, 2021, as always beginning at 7:30 PM meeting. The speaker will be: Dr. Darrin Lowery, Research Associate, Smithsonian Institution, who will be ZOOMING into us from Michigan. His presentation is entitled: Late Pleistocene Geoarchaeology:  A Long-Term Collective Investigation of Eroding […]

Please join us this Thursday February 11, 2021 at 7:30 PM. The Annual Event: Member’s Night! From the Paleolithic to 19th Century; from Mongolia to Ontario! Please join us for our annual Member’s Night where we will have at least four short presentations by Chapter members on a variety of temporal and geographic archaeological topics […]

Please join us for our monthly meeting via Zoom on Thursday, January 14th at 7:30pm featuring Dr. Edward Banning, Anthropology, University of Toronto and his talk titled: “Gobekli Tepe: First Temples or Early House Society?”. Dr. Banning will discuss various interpretations of the meaning of this famous, enigmatic 10,000 year old Turkish site that some have argued […]

Please join us for our monthly meeting via Zoom on December 12th 7:30pm for a presentation by Dr. Steven Dorland, Professor of Anthropology, University of Toronto titled Let’s Start with Something Small: An evaluation of social learning and scaling practices in Great Lakes potting communities during the Late Woodland. This research analyses decorative data from Late Woodland ceramic assemblages to […]

Please join us for our monthly meeting via Zoom on November 12th 7:30pm for a presentation by Dr. David Anderson, Professor of Anthropology, University of Tennesee titled Excavations at Shiloh Indian Mounds 1999-2004: What We Have Learned and What Remains to be Done. This presentation on the rescue work at this impressive Mississippian Site was […]

Please join us for our monthly meeting via Zoom on October 8th 7:30pm for a presentation by Dr. Jonathan Lothrop, Curator of Archaeology at New York State Museum. His presentation is titled Archaeological Research on Paleoindian Peoples of the New York Region.

Due to the current Covid situation, which has made in person meetings in general problematic and placed restrictions on the our usual Museum of Ontario meeting venue, with the support of the main body, Ontario Archaeological Society, we will for at least the near future switching to online ZOOM meetings. Our first such meeting will be […]

In an effort to maintain social distancing and follow the recommendations set forth by the Province of Ontario during the COVID-19 pandemic, the following events have been regrettably cancelled for July/August 2020: London Chapter Picnic/Artifact Day on July 12th Lake Whittaker Archaeology Day on August 15th  Thank you for your patience as we continue to navigate through this […]

Hello Everyone, After discussions with MOA, in an effort to help limit the spread of COVID-19 and follow the recommendations set forth by the Province of Ontario, we have decided to cancel the upcoming April 9th meeting and reschedule the speaker, Dr. Heather Hatch of the Museum, for one of our fall meetings. Thank you for […]

The next meeting of the London Chapter, Ontario Archaeological Society will be on Thursday, February 13, 2020 at the Museum of Ontario Archaeology, 1600 Attawandaron Road in London.  The meeting is the perennial favourite Member’s Night where several speakers will give brief overviews of their recent archaeological activities. This year there will be four speakers talking about topics such as last summer’s London […]