This study reports on the information recovered from the Parkhill Early Palaeo-Indian (fluted point) site in south-west Ontario that dates to the end of the last ice age. Part 1 reviews the site context, excavation history, geological history, and palaeoenvironment of the site. Part 2 describes the lithic assemblages found at the site, including the raw materials used, fluted bifaces & other bifacial tools, unifacial tools such as scrapers, and flaking debris. Part 3 describes the site areas and overall layout, with inter-site comparisons and comparisons to other large sites in the United States & Canada. The final part is a summary of the archaeological findings.

This volume provides a detailed description and analysis of the archaeological findings from the Parkhill Paleo-Indian (fluted point) site in southwestern Ontario. It reveals the activities of the earliest human inhabitants to enter Ontario as the continental glaciers retreated northward in the eleventh millennium B.P.

Articles by prominent archaeologists and geological scientists shed new light on the late Palaeo-Indian cultures of the Great Lakes during a time of staggering environmental change and challenge, as the ice sheets retreated northward. The human response to the dramatic environmental upheaval produced unique cultural patterns, which we are just beginning to understand.