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Digging deep into the past PDF Print E-mail
Written by DeadGirl   
Friday, 28 May 2004
The Blue Water Bridge plaza in Point Edward was an important trade site thousands of years before NAFTA. The point of land where Lake Huron meets the St. Clair River was a gathering place for members of the Aamjiwnaag First Nation to hunt and trade.

"This area is one of the richest archaeological sites in North America," said Dan Elash, president of Canada's Blue Water Bridge Authority. "When we dig holes in the ground, it is not unusual to find artifacts, whether it's pottery or bones from fish or even burial sites."

Whenever the authority needs to dig another hole, Ontario law requires it contract a licensed archaeology firm to preserve any artifacts that might be destroyed by the construction.

One such excavation is under way at the future site of the Ontario Travel Information Centre on Venetian Boulevard, which must be moved to make way for a new truck ramp. A team, comprised mostly of students from the University of Western Ontario in London working for Heritage Archaeology Consultants of London, has been digging there since fall. The project nearly is complete.

Previous digs near the Duty Free Shop turned up evidence of ancient settlements, including human remains. Nothing like that has been found during the current excavation -- only fish bones and arrowheads, some from as far away as present-day Kentucky.

"If there's anything of significance found, it is catalogued and a report is written," Elash said, "and all that material will end up in a university so some graduate students can write papers on it."

http://www.thetimesherald.com/news/stories/20040528/localnews/523285.html
 
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