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      THE SITE A Personal Odyssey

      THE SITE

      A Personal Odyssey

      ROBERT NERO

      NATURAL HERITAGE BOOKS

       TORONTO

      Copyright © 2001 by Robert W. Nero

      All rights reserved. No portion of this book, with the exception of brief extracts for the purpose of literary or scholarly review, may be reproduced in any form without the permission of the publisher.

      Published by Natural Heritage/Natural History Inc.

      P.O. Box 95, Station O, Toronto ON M4A 2M8

      Design by Blanche Hamill, Norton Hamill Design

      Edited by Jane Gibson

      Printed and bound in Canada by Hignell Printing Limited

      All photographs are courtesy of the author, unless otherwise identified.

      Front cover photograph of Ashley Nero superimposed on a photograph of

      fragments of flakes.

      Back cover photograph of Portage Sandhills Road.

      National Library of Canada Cataloguing in Publication Data

      Nero, Robert W., 1922-

       The site : a personal odyssey

      Includes bibliographical references and index.

      ISBN 1-896219-70-5

      1. Nero, Robert W., 1922- . 2. Paleo-Indians—Manitoba. 3. Paleo-Indians—

      Saskatchewan. 4. Manitoba—Antiquities. 5. Saskatchewan—Antiquities. 6.

      Archaeologists—Canada—Biography. I. Title.

      E78.M25N47 2001 930.1’092 C00-932735-5

      Natural Heritage / Natural History Inc. acknowledges the financial support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council for our publishing program. We also acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program (BPIDP) and the Association for the Export of Canadian Books.

      CONTENTS

A Look Back

      A BEGINNING

The Madison Years

      ZOOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY

       DIGS I’VE DONE

       On a Bowl Found in the Ashes of a Burned Hut

       STUDENT ASSOCIATES

       A MAN OF THE LAND

       3

Saskatchewan Years

      FIRST REAL JOB

       Teacher

       OxBow-A NAME

       LOST LOVE FOUND

       Lost Love Found

       LAKE ATHABASCA

       4

Manitoba Fields

      OWLS AND ARROWHEADS

       MONTANA SOJOURN

       A COLLECTOR

       Indian Relic

       5

The Oxbow Connection

      A LANDSCAPE

       ALWAYS LOOKING

       I DISCOVER THE SITE

       THE OXBOW POINT

       HACAULT-A NEW SITE NAME

       The Site

       To MAKE A POINT

       SITE VISITORS

       The Search

       THE UBIQUITOUS SCRAPER

       Relationships

       OTHER DISCOVERIES

       Disappointment

       6

To Dig or Not to Dig

      TECHNIQUES

       WATER AND FOOD

       AN ADMIRABLE PEOPLE

       SCIENCE IS SERVED

       7

A Time of Change

       ONE MORE LOOK

       POSTSCRIPT

       The Flake Saver

       Bibliography

       Index

      

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