C. J. Ellis - Before Pottery: Paleoindian and Archaic Hunter-Gatherers of Southern Ontario. In Before Ontario, edited by Marit Munson and Susan Jamieson, McGill-Queens University Press, forthcoming.

C. J. Ellis - 2012 - Foreword. In: Late Pleistocene Archaeology and Ecology in the Far Northeast, edited by Claude Chapdelaine. Texas A & M University Press for the Centre for the Study of the First Americans, College Station, Texas, forthcoming.

C. J. Ellis - 2012  (dated 2011 for serial purposes) - Evidence for Changing Toolstone Source Use and Range Mobility During the Paleoindian Occupation of the Great Lakes/Northeast. Current Research in the Pleistocene 28: 32-34.

C. J. Ellis and  P. Racher - 2012 (dated 2011 for serial purposes) - A Distinctive, Probably Early Paleoindian, Stone Tool from the Credit River Drainage. Kewa 11(3):1-8.

Representative Earlier Publications (for a full publication list see my CV link above)

D. B. Deller and C. J. Ellis (with contributions by J. R. Keron and R. H. King and a foreword by H.T. Wright) - 2011 - The Crowfield Site (AfHj-31): A Unique Paleoindian Fluted Point Site from Southwestern Ontario. Memoirs of the Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan No. 49. Ann Arbor, Michigan. xiii + 209 pages. Click here for information about this volume (look under "New Books" heading). Click here for an order form.

C. J. Ellis and J. R. Keron - 2011 - A Preliminary Report on a 3000 Year Old “Wall Trench” Structure from the Davidson Site (AhHk-54). Kewa 11(2):1-10.

C. J. Ellis, D. H. Carr and T. J. Loebel – 2011 - The Younger Dryas and Late Pleistocene Peoples of the Great Lakes Region. Quaternary International 242(2):534-545. This journal publisher does not allow me to make pdf copies freely available online. If you would like an electronic copy of this paper please email me: cjellis@uwo.ca but see also: link to paper

C. J. Ellis - 2011 - Measuring Paleoindian Range Mobility and Land-Use in the Great Lakes/Northeast. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 30(3):385-401. This journal publisher does not allow one to make pdf copies freely available online. If you would like an electronic copy of this paper please email me:  cjellis@uwo.ca 

C. J. Ellis - 2011 - Lithic/Stone Technology of the Debert Site (Discussion paper and discussion transcript). In Ta’n Wetapeksi’k: Understanding Where We Come From, Proceedings of the 2005 Debert Research Workshop, Debert, Nova Scotia, Canada, edited by T. Bernard, L. M. Rosenmeier, and S. Farrell, pp. 91-109.  Eastern Woodland Print Communications, Truro, Nova Scotia.

K. Snarey and C. J. Ellis - 2010 - Evidence for Bow and Arrow Use in the Smallpoint Late Archaic of Southern Ontario. In The "Compleat Archaeologist": Papers in Honour of Michael W. Spence, edited by Chris J. Ellis, Neal Ferris, Peter Timmins and Christine D. White, pp. 21-38. London Chapter Ontario Archaeological Society, Occasional Paper No. 9 (co-published as journal Ontario Archaeology 85-88).

C. J. Ellis - 2009 - The Crowfield and Caradoc Sites, Ontario: Glimpses of Palaeo-Indian Sacred Ritual and World View. In Painting the Past with a Broad Brush. Papers in Honour of James Valliere Wright, edited by David L. Keenlyside and Jean-Luc Pilon, pp. 319-352.  Mercury Series Archaeology Paper 170. Canadian Museum of Civilization, Gatineau. Click here to view a pdf copy.

C. J. Ellis, P. Timmins and H. Martelle - 2009 - At the Crossroads and Periphery: The Archaic Archaeological Record of Southern Ontario. In Archaic Societies: Diversity and Complexity Across the Midcontinent, Thomas E. Emerson, Andrew C. Fortier and Dale McElrath (eds.), pp. 787-839. State University of New York Press, Albany, New York.

D. B. Deller, C. J. Ellis and J. R. Keron - 2009 - Understanding Cache Variability: A Deliberately Burned Early Paleoindian Tool Assemblage from the Crowfield Site, Southwestern Ontario, Canada. American Antiquity 74(2):371-397. Click here to view a pdf copy.

C. J. Ellis - 2008 - The Fluted Point tradition and the Arctic Small Tool tradition: What’s the Connection? Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 27:298-314. This journal publisher does not allow me to make pdf copies freely available online. If you would like an electronic copy of this paper please email me:  cjellis@uwo.ca 

C. J. Ellis - 2004 - Understanding "Clovis" Fluted Point Variability in the Northeast: A Perspective from the Debert Site, Nova Scotia. Canadian Journal of Archaeology 28(2):205-253. Click here to view a pdf copy

C. J. Ellis - 2004 - Hi-Lo: An Early Lithic Complex in Southern Ontario. In The Late Palaeoindian Great Lakes: Geoarchaeological and Archaeological Investigations of Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Environments, Lawrence J. Jackson and Andrew Hinshelwood (eds.), pp. 57-83. Mercury Series Archaeology Paper No. 165. Canadian Museum of Civilization, Gatineau, Quebec. Click here to view a pdf copy.

C. J. Ellis, J. Tomenchuk and J. Holland - 2003 - Typology, Use and Sourcing of the Late Pleistocene Lithic Artifacts from the Hiscock Site. In The Hiscock Site: Later Pleistocene and Early Holocene Paleoecology and Archaeology of Western New York State, R. S. Laub (ed.), pp. 221-237. Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences 37. Click here to view a pdf copy.

C. J. Ellis and D. B. Deller (with a contribution by R. H. King) - 2002 - Excavations at the Caradoc Site (AfHj-104): A Late Paleoindian Ritual Artifact Deposit. Occasional Publications of the London Chapter, Ontario Archaeological Society, No. 8. xi + 187 pages.  

D. B. Deller and C. J. Ellis - 2001 - Evidence for Late Paleo-Indian Ritual from the Caradoc Site (AfHj-104), Southwestern Ontario, Canada. American Antiquity 66(2): 267-284. Click here to view a pdf copy

C. J. Ellis and D. B. Deller (with contributions by W. B. Roosa, A. V. Morgan and J. H. McAndrews) - 2000 - An Early Paleo-Indian Site Near Parkhill, Ontario. Archaeological Survey of Canada, Mercury Series Paper No. 159. Hull, Canadian Museum of Civilization. xxii + 313 pages.

L. J. Jackson, C. J. Ellis, A. V. Morgan and J. H. McAndrews - 2000 - Glacial Lake Levels and Eastern Great Lakes Palaeo-Indians. Geoarchaeology 15(5): 415-440. Click here to view a pdf copy

C. J. Ellis, A. C. Goodyear, D. F. Morse and K. Tankersley - 1998 - Archaeology of the Pleistocene-Holocene Transition in Eastern North America. Quaternary International 49/50:151-166. Click here to view a pdf copy

C. J. Ellis - 1997 - Factors Influencing the Use of Stone Projectile Tips: An Ethnographic Perspective. In Projectile Technology, edited by Heidi Knecht, pp. 37-74. Plenum Press, N.Y. 

C. J. Ellis and D. B. Deller - 1997 - Variability in the Archaeological Record of Northeastern Early Paleo-Indians: A View from Southern Ontario. Archaeology of Eastern North America 25:1-30. Click here to view a pdf copy

D. B. Deller and C. J. Ellis - 1996 - The Bolton (AfHj-89) Site: A Crowfield Phase Early Paleo-Indian Site in Southwestern Ontario. Ontario Archaeology 61:5-44.  Click here to view a pdf copy

C. J. Ellis and J. H. Payne - 1995 - Estimating Failure Rates in Fluting Based on Archaeological Data: Examples from NE North America. Journal of Field Archaeology 22:459-474. Click here to view a pdf copy

C. J. Ellis - 1994 - Miniature Early Paleo-Indian Stone Artifacts from the Parkhill, Ontario, Site. North American Archaeologist 15:253-267. Click here to view a pdf copy

D. B. Deller and C. J. Ellis - 1992 - Thedford II: A Paleo-Indian Site in the Ausable River Watershed of Southwestern Ontario. Memoirs of the Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, No. 24. xii + 157 pages.

C. J. Ellis, S. Wortner and W. A. Fox - 1991 - Nettling: An Overview of an Early Archaic "Kirk Corner-Notched Cluster" Site in Southwestern Ontario. Canadian Journal of Archaeology 15:1-34. Click here to view a pdf copy

C. J. Ellis and N. Ferris (editors) - 1990 - The Archaeology of Southern Ontario to A.D. 1650. Occasional Publications, London Chapter, OAS No. 5. xvii + 570 pages.

C. J. Ellis and J. Lothrop (editors) - 1989 - Eastern Paleoindian Lithic Resource Use. Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado. xxiii + 398 pages.

D. B. Deller and C. J. Ellis - 1988 - Early Palaeo-Indian Complexes in Southwestern Ontario. In Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Paleoecology and Archaeology of the Eastern Great Lakes Region, R. Laub, N. Miller and D. Steadman (eds.), pps. 251-263. Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences 33. Click here to view a pdf copy

C. J. Ellis and D. B. Deller - 1986 - Post-Glacial Lake Nipissing Waterworn Assemblages from the Southeastern Huron Basin Area. Ontario Archaeology 45:39-60. Click here to view a pdf copy

Recent Research Funding

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRCC) Standard Research Grant – "Archaeological Investigations at the Davidson Broad Point Archaic Site" (Principal applicant with collaborators Joseph Desloges [University of Toronto], Sarah Finkelstein [University of Toronto], Lisa Hodgetts [University of Western Ontario], John Menzies [Brock University] and Andrew Stewart [Independent Scholar and Consultant]) - $115,590.00. 2007-2010.

Externally refereed Academic Development Fund Grant, University of Western Ontario - "Surveying, Mapping and Recording Equipment for Archaeology" - $47,222.00 - (Principal applicant with Lisa Hodgetts [co-principal], and Robert Pearce [Museum of Ontario Archaeology] Co-Applicant). 2006.

C. J. Ellis – Investigations at the Davidson Site (AhHk-54), A  Late Archaic Settlement on the Ausable River, Southwestern  Ontario. Paper to be presented at the special invited biannual symposium of The Archaeological Society of Ohio, entitled "Prehistoric Cultures II", Columbus, Ohio, May, 2012.

C. Hanson and C. J. Ellis – An Updated Ontario Fluted Point Survey. Paper presented in the session on: New Developments in Late Glacial Archaeology and Geology in Northeastern North America, at the 44^th Annual Meeting, Canadian Archaeological Association, Halifax, Nova Scotia, May, 2011.

J. R. Keron, C. J. Ellis and E. Eastaugh – The Davidson Site (AhHk-54) Middlesex County, Ontario: Remote Sensing of a Late Archaic Site. Paper presented in the session on: Archaeometry and Geoarchaeology at the 37th Annual Meeting, Ontario Archaeological Society, Killarney, Ontario, September, 2010.

C. J. Ellis, D. Carr and T. Loebel - The Younger Dryas and Late Pleistocene Peoples of the Great Lakes Region. Paper presented in symposium: "Human Reponses to the Younger Dryas in the Northern Hemisphere: The Old World and The New World", organized by Lawrence Strauss (University of New Mexico) and Ted Goebel (Texas A & M University) at the 75th Anniversary Meeting, Society for American Archaeology, St. Louis, Missouri, April, 2010.

C. J. Ellis, - Documenting Earlier First Nations’ History: Excavations at the Davidson site (2500-1000 BC) on the Ausable River, Ontario. Presentation in the Museum of Ontario Archaeology Community Outreach Speaker Series: “Archaeology in Ontario”. London Public Library, March, 2010.

C. J. Ellis - Investigations at the Davidson (AhHk-54) Site on the Ausable River, 2005-2009: A Late Archaic Broad Point Component. Presentation to the Hamilton Chapter, Ontario Archaeological Society, Ancaster Ontario, January, 2010.