Beach ridges, sand dunes and buried sites : Recent CRM Investigations at Inverhuron, Ontario

Summary

In the 1950s avocational archaeologist Fritz Knechtel discovered several important archaeological sites near Inverhuron Bay, Ontario, on the eastern shore of Lake Huron. Early professional investigations were conducted by Tom Lee and J.V. Wright of the National Museum of Canada and Walter Kenyon of the Royal Ontario Museum. In 2014 a proposed infrastructure project provided an opportunity to re-locate and test several of Knechtel's sites. This paper presents the results of this project and discusses the challenges of conducting an archaeological assessment in an area of raised cobble beaches and shifting sand dunes overlain by recent development. Despite extensive 20th century cottage development in the area, portions of three previously documented sites were found to preserved under up to two metres of windblown sand and road fill.

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• Society for American Archaeology 80th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2015)

Keywords

Spatial Coverage