Archaeology

Mammoth tooth and Caribou bones

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Cast of a Mammoth toot (top left) from 4.5 million - 4500 years ago and the bones and cranium of a Caribou.

Posted Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Jacques Huot views the exhibit

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Jacques Huot, a member of the Wendake First Nation looks at the pot sherds and pipe fragments on display. (Photo by Jon Horvatin)

 

 

Posted Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Jacques Huot with exhibition attendees

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Jacques Huot, a member of the Wendake First Nation talking with Professor Susan Pfeiffer of the Department of Anthropology (left) and an exhibition attendee. (Photo by Jon Horvatin)

 

Posted Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Uncovering our past: First Nations in Toronto

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(From left to right) Susan Pfeiffer (professor of anthropology, U of T), Barbara Harris (councillor at Six Nations of Grand River), Luc Lainé (Huron-Wendat Nation) and Joanne Thomas (consultation point person for Six Nations). (Photo by Jon Horvatin)

Posted Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Uncovering our past: First Nations in Toronto

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U of T opens permanent exhibition
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Jennifer Lanthier
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Photo of pottery rim sherd from late Woodland period

Tools fashioned from stone and bone thousands of years ago, clay pipes crafted hundreds of years ago – these are some of the artifacts in a new exhibition opening at the University of Toronto.

Uncovering Our Early Past: First Nations in Toronto opens May 11, 2012 in the Anthropology Building at 19 Russell Street.

“For thousands of years, long before European newcomers arrived, the area we now call Toronto was home to the ancestors of First Nations peoples,” said Professor Susan Pfeiffer of the Department of Anthropology.

Posted Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Humans used fire a million years ago

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Wonderwerk Cave shows fire used 300,000 years earlier than believed
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Kim Luke
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Photo of the excavated cave.

An international team led by the University of Toronto and Hebrew University has identified the earliest known evidence of the use of fire by human ancestors. Microscopic traces of wood ash, alongside animal bones and stone tools, were found in a layer dated to one million years ago at the Wonderwerk Cave in South Africa. 

Posted Monday, April 2, 2012

Statue, chapels and animal mummies found in Egypt by U of T team

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Rare wood statue may be female pharaoh
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Jessica Lewis
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Egyptian mummy

A wooden statue of a king, a private offering chapel, a monumental building and remains of over 80 animal mummies found by a University of Toronto-led team in Abydos, Egypt reveal intriguing information about ritual activity associated with the great gods.

Professor Mary-Ann Pouls Wegner of the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations presented her team's findings at a recent meeting of the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities.

Posted Monday, March 12, 2012
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