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 […]

The next chapter meeting is this upcoming Thursday  January 9th, 2019 at the Museum of Ontario Archaeology. The presenter will be Dana Poulton. His presentation is entitled “The Bead Hill Site: A Late Seventeenth Century Village on the Rouge River, Ontario.”  Results of limited test excavations and historic research indicate that the site was occupied from ca. A.D. 1669 to […]

Our next meeting is this Thursday November 14th at the Museum of Ontario Archaeology.  This month’s talk by Dr. Jay Stock, Professor, Western University is titled Changing Perspectives on the Transition to Agriculture in the Levant and Beyond. Dr. Stock will talk about his bioarchaeology/skeletal biology research and how it has played an important role in our […]

Our next meeting is this Thursday October 10th at the Museum of Ontario Archaeology.  This month’s talk by Dr. J.E. Molto, Professor Emeritus, Western University is titled Bioarchaeological Analysis of Two Child Burials from Canada De  La Huertita (BC111), Baja California, Sur, Mexico. Dr. Molto describes two child skeletons (burials 6 and 7) from a cave burial […]

Our next meeting is this Thursday September 12th at the Museum of Ontario Archaeology.  This Months speaker is Dr. Charles Orser (Timmins Martelle Heritage Consultants with his talk titled Looking for Witches in Lancashire, England The trial of the “Pendle Hill witches” in 1612 is arguably the most famous case of witchcraft in England. Its orbit even […]