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The London Chapter holds seven monthly meetings featuring a guest speaker(s) on the second Thursday of the month from September through to November and from January through to April. Meetings begin at 8:00 P.M. at the Museum of Ontario Archaeology, Attawandaron Road, London. Parking is free. Doors are open around 7:30 P.M. and there is time before the meeting for free juice and cookies and to view for free the Museum's exhibits on the precontact and early contact period archaeology of Ontario.

The April meeting of the London Chapter  was held on Thursday, April 12, 2012, at the Museum of Ontario Archaeology. This meeting was the perennial favourite Members Night where three speakers presented short (20-25 minute) presentations on their current southwestern Ontario research in osteology (Mike Spence), shipwreck/underwater archaeology (Krissy Nickle) and Late Archaic archaeology (Chris Ellis).

The September meeting of the London Chapter  was held on Thursday, September 13, 2012 and as usual at the Museum of Ontario Archaeology. The speaker was Josh Dent, a PhD student at Western who spoke about an aspect of his recently completed MA Thesis research exploring Public Archaeology in Ontario. The title of his presentation was: The Progression of Provincial Archaeological Governance in Ontario.

The October meeting of the London Chapter was  held on Thursday, October 11, 2012 at 8 PM at the Museum of Ontario Archaeology. The speaker was Phil Woodley of New Directions Archaeology Ltd.  who spoke abut his firm's work between 2005-2008 at an important Uren substage Late Woodland village entitled: Preliminary Discussion of the Redeemer College Site (AhGx-114) Excavations, Ancaster, Ontario.

The November meeting of the London Chapter, normally to be held on Thursday, November 8, 2012, was canceled for this year as the Annual meeting of the Ontario Archaeological Society was held the same week (November 9-11, 2012) in Windsor Ontario.

The December meeting of the London Chapter OAS was our annual Christmas Party and was held held on Thursday, December 13 at the Museum of Ontario Archaeology.

The January meeting of the London Chapter OAS was  held on Thursday, January 10, 2013 at the Museum of Ontario Archaeology. The speaker was Dr. Gary Crawford of the University of Toronto-Mississauga who spoke about: Agricultural Origins and Development in Ontario.

The February meeting of the London Chapter OAS was held on Thursday, February 14, 2013 (yes, Valentine's Day) at the Museum of Ontario Archaeology. The meeting featured the annual major event MEMBER'S NIGHT with fivel short presentations on a range of archaeological topics and geographic areas froom Ontario, Mexico and Peru and featuring everything from pottery to lithics to architecture!

The March meeting of the London Chapter OAS was  held on Thursday, March 14, 2013 at the Museum of Ontario Archaeology. The speaker was Dr. El Molto of the Department of Anthropology at Western University who spoke about his past research on China's oldest civilization. The title of his presentation was "The People of the Shang: Their Story from Bones."

The April meeting of the London Chapter OAS will be  held on Thursday, April 11, 2013 at the Museum of Ontario Archaeology. The speaker will be Robert Pihl of Archaeological Services Inc. in Toronto who will speak about recent CRM work in the Chatham area in a presentation entitled: Blowing in the Wind:  The Challenges and Results of Wind Farm Archaeology in the Chatham-Kent Area, Ontario. Doors open at 7:30 PM. Free juice and cookies! Abstract: Since 2009, ASI has been working on two wind farm projects within the Municipality of Chatham-Kent. Before survey work related to the two projects was initiated, 49 archaeological sites were registered in the project study area and vicinity. Stage 2 assessments of the numerous archaeological survey areas required for the project have added another 119 sites to the inventory, of which 107 are Aboriginal and 12 are Euro-Canadian. Stage 3 surface survey and/or test excavations were conducted on 30 sites, and Stage 4 excavation has been completed or is currently in progress on 15 sites. This presentation describes the challenges and preliminary results of conducting wind farm archaeology in Ontario.

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