Abstract

Our knowledge of Late Archaic occupations in Southern Ontario is limited by the lack of sites with strong contextual information. However, there are numerous unanalyzed surface collections. Surface collected lithic assemblages have traditionally been considered poor indicators of human behaviour. With this in mind, a low-power use-wear study and debitage analysis bas been conducted on the Abbot site (AgHb-17), a surface collected lithic assemblage located just outside Brantford. This paper explores the potential of surface collected lithics to elucidate various aspects of Archaic culture.