The Archaeology of the Keffer Site and the Indigenous Occupation of the Central North Shore of Lake Ontario in the Late 15th and Early 16th Centuries A.D.
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The Archaeology of the Keffer Site and the Indigenous Occupation of the Central North Shored of Lake Ontario in the Late 15th and early 16th Centuries A.D. is a companion publication to Finlayson and Lerner’s 2024 in-depth academic study of the Keffer archaeological village and the pre-contact occupation of the central north shore of Lake Ontario.
Circa A.D. 1525, about 10 years before French explorer Jacques Cartier visited Hochelaga on Montreal Island, four communities of Iroquoians and Algonquians on the north central shore of Lake Ontario experienced a massive shift in their way of life. Previously, they lived in small villages with little concern for defense. On the Don River, this resulted in the occupation of the Keffer site, a large village that was surrounded by intricate palisades with houses arranged in such a way to assist in their defence against attackers who managed to infiltrate the interior of the village, The Keffer settlement was the complex result of many ongoing processes that we have only begun to explore and understand, Herin is an introduction to this still unfolding story.
