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Wsrfirmtflrnv hm Vw your 7W rrwvrvxrwmvuww scanners Pnotea by Dee Gallows BERNARD VAN GMEVE AND lW0 EXCAVATORS LOOK OVER MARKED LONBHOUSE SIT VISITED BY CHRMPLHIN Soil Discolordtions Tell Of Ccshiague SALLY LOU ABERN Stet Writer Working on hands and knees ld young ercheolog covering the reuse or oi centuryold indian Village near Orlllia i1Ia tools they use include small trowel iina brush and dental pick with painstaking care woriing in livetoot sauer the smpe away sand to reveal dismioratlonl in the soil which are almost all that remain oi the village oi Cattle gue Champlain records his visit to Caluague with its not longhou sea on Aug ll rare ihe site is west oi Oriliie on highway in lost west oi Warmlnstar Bernard von Grieve assistant iield director oi the resent dig polnted out that cuss the Baron lndiens practised slash and burn agriculture habitation at the site oi the dig probably only existed tor about 15 years At ths time it was probably the largest and principa village oi the Huron nation and pm halo had the most important 11 praciica oi the Homes an agricultural people was to tarm plot tor tow ears and then move on to loo or Tah ing into account the area around the site which could be termed and where iirewnod could be atlssred Mr von Graeva said at In about 15 years all the land would have been iarmed gdthe lodiaos would have mov on However it is also likely that they did not leave the village atandiol to have it destro ed by the elemsnts or by and er tribe Evidence already uncov ered indicates that they pulled out poles and dismantled build ings taking them along to use as material or the new village Digging first began at Calde gue in loss and continued in 1M7 under the direction oi Dr Norman Emerson Proteuor oi Anthropolo and Arobaeology at Universty oi Toronto How ever as the department was in volved in other excavstlons no there was lack oi iunds the excavations were suspended Soirom 1911 to loot Cshalgua are abandoned tor the second lo the intervening years Dr Esnarson was occupied with other summer projects includ ing investigations oi the Pit cul ture iound on the northern shares at Lake Superior two summers in the Arctic and sav aral years working on salvage archeology in the St Lawrence Seaway However suggestions mm the town at Orillia that an Ameri can University was interested in the site rought us back in nothing it Dr Emerson cone manted inkiogly BTUMBHNG BLOCK Financing digs like Cahlague is main stumbling block and until greot at about 000 came through tom the Univer sity recently no dig was plan ned this year There are about 15 acres on the site which Is mashed every 100 lest with grid markers These areas are divided into our totoot uerea and then subdivided at into no live ioot squares it is in these ilveloot square that the actual excavating done Between each livetoot square liveinch waliia leit standing This shows cross section of sand present topmtl down to the top soil and subsoil oi the Vindian era This is used in pro illa drawings The walls are also useiui to doing an erosion petissd study This helps us to see what has been happening to the site build over the years Mr Von Graeva said The longhouse wherelluron iarnilies lived in groups ranged tsorn about so act in length to as long as 120 to looiieet Onetoi Itha most interesting leatures oi the site tom the point oi view oi the visitor is looghouee which has been complete uncovered with col oredrltaises inserted to show teetures oiithe building asit existed about miyears ago ovruuo Lorie nousn stakes or dtiierent ooiora show the outer support posts loner support posts posts whichonca stakes in the possibla to visualisa that lingea it might ave beeni Small stalresshow where ash and figucoal deposlta were lound inuthe excavations Mr van Gsaevegshnwed this indicated that there than heen one innocentral hearth tor coolsI tag and heating it said would he longs untoy ongi snrnpiei ntortnstlon as all like that oi the Western householder who builds house with little garden around it togetherness in iamliles as well as withinthe community is indicated by the tact that only matter of ieet separate one ionghousa from another We small long houses on the site have their entrance doors lacing over only low ieet at ground The archeologlst is not only concerned with unenverina the remains oi the village but with recording each trace at ash and each discoloration oi the soil on graph Each livaioot sauna is gr had and number so it he position on the allover plan oi the sita RECORD FINDING As well as recording the tind inga on the graph each person gives verbal description oi the things as he ioond them and this is recorded with intense tlon on the site Most ot the persons at pre aantat work are volunteers tnterested in archeolow oe causa the university grant was late in coming through most universlty students who might have been included on the sum mer protect had been employed elsewhere By the beginning at August 20 persons will be at woris Ninety per cent oi the mat erial we can show pie comes trorn the middens indlan gar gage dump Mr von Graava pointed out This is mostly pot tery which is the beat indi cator oi period and stage at Emerson and tire two iield dir actors Mr von Graeva will become iield director in August when Miss tlaul and several oi those at present working at Cahiagu leave tor Pick ltiver to invea gate the presence oi an old list sons Bay Post This dlg is spoo aored grant irom the Ar cheolo cal and Historic Sites Board Visitors are Welcome at the site where they will be shown the excavations by one oi the experienced personnel rar would seem to be much more exciting and thrilling experience than some oi the commercialis ed rebuilt historic sites and tremendous and worthwhile ea perienea tor None adult or development Through the mark logs on the pottery we can iden tity it on other sitcsahowing there has been trade Few pottery oblecls are ioundv completely intact The lndlans usuauy broke the pottery beiore discardiogvit or 1drut hole to the bottom to the pet and the person dead This practice curse irons the Huron belie that the pot as well as the person had spirit oi its own By breaking the pot they released the spirit eras son The soil brought out at the middens is allied to reveal even Hotel as small as iisb scale bit at clams ll or the ra maina oi earn cubs bloat oi the recovered mater is bro ltaanottery At one side at the site the patissdes are being eitcevated So tar excavations isovi triple was Fur ther study will brneedsd to show at what angle dummies were driven into the ground limits to water soluble won the crumbling remains oi iew oi the stakes still remain ing in the ground have been preserved The youngsters mostly teen age boys and girls Proi Erhar iieid director Miss at asamirtnvou caneve income RE od auLstent iieidsiirec van Groove term ea mmunity with tantsproviding commodetions Members or the group teke turns periorming the housewii elyduties oi cam clean and asseal preparat on Thanks toian Orlllie man hydro war wds brouthotisa alts eral years ago which reduce words considerably at present working at coul osidered the Applications to inalt toion the olg coma irom reduete students at Boston Syracuse and Columbia Universities but those chosen ithe distance inctor was considerédl cameeirom the Tar onto Hamiltn area Montreal WM Thlljll cartaint nottaiob be ing carried out yaxparienced prplestionai archeolog sic For the the youngsters tic amateurs iguided by Prat are only ante ted enthusles in use sympouittusiulyeenl us team4vvaaavamwsmwefiflw swarm VILLAGE nameor P051 when you move when new baby arrives Your Welcome Wagon iton wig call with basket at gitis triendty gmiln irons our rll ions title business teed lottoum VINO Itme Morass mu Ian on noun so ltsstua all as imiailsstasmerlte It DI aier catsuit on sat mm and no la armorial some sxassm