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, Quebec. Click here to view a pdf copy.

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, E. Eastaugh, J. Keron and L. Foreman - 2009 - A Preliminary Overview of the 2008 Excavations at the Davidson (AhHk-54) ‘Broad Point’ Archaic Site. Kewa 09(1-2):1-19.

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.

Selected Earlier Works

Books:

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.  

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.

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

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.

Journal Articles and Papers:

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

C. J. Ellis - 1993 - Premières Industries Lithiques Paléo-Indiennes de la Région N-E de L'Amérique du Nord Dans Leurs Principaux Contextes (Temps, Espace, Paléo-environnement, Sites, Culture). L'Anthropologie (Paris) 97:586-622.

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

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.

C. J. Ellis and B. Deller - 1988 - Some Distinctive Paleo-Indian Tool Types from the Lower Great Lakes Area.  Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology 13:111-158.

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.

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 (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.

C. J. Ellis - Measuring Paleoindian Mobility and Land Use in the Great Lakes/Northeast. Paper presented at the 35^th Annual Meeting, Ontario Archaeological Society, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, October 2009.

E. Eastaugh, J. R. Keron, L. Foreman and C. J. Ellis - Beeps, Blips, and Buried Broadpoints: A Gradiometer Survey of the Late Archaic Davidson Site (AhHk-54; ca. 2400-1500 B.C.) in Southwestern Ontario. Poster presented at the 42nd Annual Meeting, Canadian Archaeological Association, Thunder Bay, Ontario, May 2009.

C. J. Ellis - Lithic Artifact Diagnostics of the Paleoindian to Early Woodland in Southern Ontario. Invited presentation and workshop, 35th Annual Meeting, Ontario Archaeological Society, Hilton Garden Inn, Vaughn, Ontario, October, 2008.

A. M. Stewart, J. R. Desloges, C. J. Ellis and D. G. Smith - What Lies Beneath? A Survey of the Evidence in Southern Ontario. Paper presented in the geoarchaeology symposium: Identifying Contexts for Deeply Buried Sites, organized by Andrew Stewart. 41st Annual Meeting, Canadian Archaeological Association, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, May, 2008.

C. J. Ellis - The High Tech Forager Model and Paleoindians: A (Re)view from the Great Lakes/Northeast. Paper presented at the “Early Paleoindian Colonization and Settlement of the Midcontinent” special workshop/conference, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, organized by Daniel Amick (Loyola University of Chicago) and Thomas E. Emerson (Illinois Transportation Archaeology Research Program, University of Illinois), April, 2008.

K. Snarey and C. J. Ellis - Evidence for Bow and Arrow Use in the Smallpoint Late Archaic of Southwestern Ontario. Paper presented at the 33rd Annual Meeting, Ontario Archaeological Society, London, Ontario, October, 2006.

C. J. Ellis - The 2006 Test Excavations at the George Davidson Site: An Archaic Broadpoint Component. Paper presented at the 33rd Annual Meeting, Ontario Archaeological Society, London, Ontario, October, 2006.

C. J. Ellis, D. B. Deller and J. Keron - Feature #1 at the Crowfield Paleoindian Site. Paper presented at the 39^th Annual Meeting, Canadian Archaeological Association, Toronto, Ontario, May, 2006.

C. J. Ellis - The Crowfield Site: A Most Unusual, 12,500 Year Old, Paleoindian Site in Southwestern Ontario. Invited presentation to Dept of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, November, 2005.

C. J. Ellis - Lithic/Stone Technology of the Debert Paleoindian Site, Nova Scotia. Solicted discussion paper presenter and workshop leader at the special conference: "Ta’n Wetapeksi’k: Understanding from Where We Come" sponsored by the Confederacy of Mainland Mi’kmaq in partnership with Saint Mary’s University as well as the Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources, Parks Canada and the Nova Scotia Museum. Debert, Nova Scotia. October, 2005.