is gone, being collected and lost, as private collections often are. A complete map of the site was produced in 1930 by the amateur archaeologist Peter Pringle. The Aurora/Old Fort site was completely excavated in 1947 and 1957 by the University of Toronto. The 1947 dig was the first student excavation by the university, and it was led by John Norman Emerson. Emerson's doctoral work was largely based on the excavations of the Aurora/Old Fort site. This excavation contributed to the conclusions of archeologists and anthropologists that the Wendat coalesced as a people in this area, rather than further east in the St. Lawrence River valley, as was thought at one time. Findings in the late twentieth century at the Ratcliff Site and in 2005 at the Mantle Site have provided more evidence of sixteenth-century settlements by ancestral Wendat in this region. The use of technological and analytic advances, such as radiocarbon dating and Bayesian analysis, has resulted in new conclusions about the occupancy of these varied sites. Some researchers now believe that the Mantle site was occupied 1587 to 1623; this view is controversial, and other researchers have disputed these findings. Further reading "Aurora Site." Partners in the Past: Ontario Archeological Society / University of Toronto, (webpage). Barkey, Jean, et al. Whitchurch Township. Erin, ON: Boston Mills, 1992. Pp. 123f. Brodie, W. A. Animal Remains found on Indian Village Sites, Annual Archaeological Report 1901, ed. D. Boyle and R. Orr. Toronto, 1902. pp. 44–45. Brodie, W. A. "Graves in Whitchurch (Old Fort)." In the Annual Report of the Canadian Institute, 1887-8, ed. D. Boyle and R. Orr. Toronto, 1889. P. 47. Emerson, J.N. "The Archaeology of the Ontario Iroquois." Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago, 1954. Dibb, G. "An Archaeological Survey of the East Holland River and Its Environs." Ms. on file, Archaeology Unit, Ministry of Culture and Communications, Toronto, 1979. Mulvany, C.P., et al. "The Township of Whitchurch." In History of Toronto and County of York, Ontario. Toronto: C.B. Robinson, 1885. Pp. 149f. Sioui, Georges E. Wendat: The Heritage of the Circle. Trans. J. Brierley. Vancouver, BC: UBC Press, 1999. Warrick, Gary A. "A Population History of the Huron-Petun, A.D. 900-1650," PhD Thesis, McGill University. Montreal, PQ, 1990 (revised edition published as A Population History of the Huron-Petun, A.D. 500-1650. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008). References External links The Huron-Wendat Museum, Wendake, Quebec Huron-Wendat Nation,