The University of Western Ontario
Faculty Member, Anthropology
Professor
Thesis Title: Paleo-Indian Lithic Technological Structure and Organization in the Lower Great Lakes Area: A First Approximation
About
I am an archaeologist with major theoretical interests in explaining variation amongst peoples who subsisted by hunting and gathering and in improving means of extracting information about past societies from their stone tool assemblages. Geographically my research has focussed on the Great Lakes area and temporally on the earliest evidence for human occupation dating in excess of 2500 years ago. My current research is centred on the undertanding of variation in settlement and subsistence practices among southern Ontario "Archaic" peoples of ca. 2000 BC and the explanation of variation in the form and content of early (13,000-11,500 years old) stone tool caches left by "Paleoindian" peoples across North America. I have supervised theses on a wide range of topics on Great Lakes archaeology that go much beyond my temporal interest to include even analyses of historic EuroCanadian sites.
Contact Information
http://anthropology.uwo.ca/cje/ellis.html
Dept. of Anthropology,
University of Western Ontario
London, Ontario, Canada
N6A 5C2
519-661-2111, ext. 85081
