View of McLeod Site Areas A and B, 1975, looking south. Area C is
behind trees in distance.
View of McLeod Site Areas A and B, 1975, looking south. Area C is
behind trees in distance.
The McLeod site is situated about 1.5 km south of the Parkhill site. It was discovered by Mr. Ed McLeod in the 1960's and reported to D. Brian Deller. It consists of at least three, and possibly four, somewhat widely dispersed concentrations of Early Paleo-Indian material. The northernmost of these areas (Areas A and B) were test excavated in 1975 under the the direction of the late William B. Roosa of the University of Waterloo with funding from the Canada Council. Additional excavations in a more southerly concentration (Area C) were carried out by Joseph Muller in 1990 with financial support from the Ontario Heritage Foundation.
Left to right: Barnes style fluted point, trianguloid end scraper,
end-of blade scraper and
concave side scraper, McLeod site.
Pointed tools, McLeod Site. Left to Right: hafted beak/perforator,
nosed or narrow end scraper,
perforator on side scraper, two needle-like multiple piercers or
gravers.
The site has yielded only a small artifact inventory. However, for its size, the site assemblage is notable in that it contains a very wide diversity of typical Paleo-Indian artifact forms (no type is represented by more than one or two items) including, besides fluted points of the Barnes style, trianguloid and other kinds of end scrapers, hafted and unhafted beaks or perforators, needle-like gravers, and side scrapers of several distinctive forms. These artifacts are almost exclusively on Collingwood chert from the Fossil Hill formation located some 175 km northeast of the site. The broad yet small artifact inventory suggests repeated use of the site as a general campsite by small family or extended family groups.
Published References
D. B. Deller and C.J. Ellis - 1992 - The Early Paleo-Indian Parkhill Phase in Southwestern Ontario. Man in the Northeast 44:15-54.
Other References
D. B. Deller - 1988 - The Paleo-Indian Occupation of Southwestern Ontario: Distribution, Technology and Social Organization. PhD Dissertation, Dept. of Anthropology, McGill University, Montreal, P. Q.
C. J. Ellis - 1979 - Analysis of Lithic Debitage from Fluted Point Sites in Ontario. M. A. Thesis, Department of Anthropology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario.
J. P. Muller - 1999 - The McLeod Site: A Small Paleo-Indian Occupation in Southwestern Ontario. M. A. Thesis, Department of Anthropology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario.
S. Lancashire - 2001 - Early Paleoindian Trianguloid End Scrapers: An Analysis. M. A. Thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of Western Ontario, London.