David G. SmithDavid G. Smith
Professor David G. Smith graduated from The University of Western Ontario, Canada in 1975 with an Honours BA in Anthropology. He completed his MA at McGill University in 1980 and was awarded his Ph.D. Anthropology in 1987, also from McGill University. He currently holds the position of Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Erindale College, University of Toronto at Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.
Professor Smith is an archaeologist specializing in prehistoric cultures of northeastern North America and the Caribbean. His special interests lie in the origins of agriculture in the Northeast Woodlands, stylistic change in Northeast Woodland ceramics, environmental archaeology in tropical & continental regions, and archaeological method and theory.
Professor Smith's current research projects include investigation of early Late Woodland societies in the Thames Valley of southwestern Ontario and the Woodland habitation at the Cootes Paradise wetland in Hamilton, Ontario. Professor Smith and Professor Gary Crawford are currently directing a research programme entitled "The Middle to Late Woodland Transition & Origins of Horticultural Societies in Northeast North America". This research is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the National Geographic Society, and has contributed important new knowledge about the earliest maize cultivation in the Northeast Woodlands.
2006 Crawford, Gary W., Della Saunders & David G. Smith. Pre-Contact Maize from Ontario, Canada: Context, Chronology, Variation, and Plant Association. In Histories of Maize: Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Prehistory, Biogeography, Domestication, and Evolution of Maize (Zea mays L.), edited byJohn E. Staller, Robert H. Tykot & Bruce F. Benz, pp. 549-559. New York: Academic Press. © Academic Press 2006.
2004 Lee, Gyoung-Ah, Anthony M. Davis, David G. Smith & John H. McAndrews. Identifying Fossil Wild Rice (Zizania) Pollen from Cootes Paradise, Ontario: A New Approach Using Scanning Electron Microscopy. Journal of Archaeological Science 31:411-421.
2003 Crawford, Gary W. & David G. Smith, Paleoethnobotany in the Northeast. In People and Plants in Ancient Eastern North America, edited by Paul Minnis, pp.172-257. Washington: Smithsonian Books. © Smithsonian Institution 2003.
2002 Smith, David G., Ten Thousand Years: Aboriginal Heritage in Mississauga. IN Mississauga: The First 10,000 Years, edited by Frank A. Dieterman, pp.55-71. Toronto: Eastend Books. © The Mississauga Heritage Foundation Inc., 2002.
2000 Smith, David G., Northeast Middle Woodland. IN Encyclopedia of Prehistory, Volume 6: North America, edited by M. Ember and P. Peregrine, pp. 358-376. New York: Kluwer/Plenum. © Human Relations Area Files, Inc. 2000.
1999 Smith, David G., Review of Bringing Back the Past: Historical Perspective on Canadian Archaeology, edited by Pamela Jane Smith and Donald Mitchell. University of Toronto Quarterly 69(1):120-122.
1998 Crawford, Gary W., David G. Smith, Joseph R. Desloges and Anthony M. Davis, Floodplains and Agricultural Origins: A Case Study in South-Central Ontario. Journal of Field Archaeology 25:123-137.
1997 Smith, David G., Recent Investigations of Late Woodland Occupations at Cootes Paradise, Ontario. Ontario Archaeology 63: 4-16. © The Ontario Archaeological Society 1997.
1997 Smith, David G., Archaeological Systematics and the Analysis of Iroquoian Ceramics: A Case Study from the Crawford Lake Area, Ontario. London, Ontario: London Museum of Archaeology.
1997 Smith, David G., Radiocarbon Dating the Middle to Late Woodland Transition and Earliest Maize in Southern Ontario. Northeast Anthropology 54:37-73. © Northeast Anthropology 1997.
1997 Smith, David G. & Gary W. Crawford, Recent Developments in the Archaeology of the Princess Point Complex in Southern Ontario. Canadian Journal of Archaeology 21:9-32.
1997 Smith, David G., Trevor L. Ormerod & Andre A. Bekerman, Small Princess Point Sites in Cootes Paradise. In Home is Where the Hearth Is: The Contribution of Small Sites to Our Understanding of Ontario's Past, edited by Jean-Luc Pilon & Rachel Perkins, pp.87-96. Ottawa: Ontario Archaeological Society.
1997 Crawford, Gary W., David G. Smith & Vandy E. Bowyer, Dating the Entry of Corn (Zea mays) into the Lower Great Lakes Region. American Antiquity 62:112-119.
1997 Walker, Ian J., Joseph R. Desloges, Gary W. Crawford & David G. Smith, Floodplain Formation Processes and Archaeological Implications, Lower Grand River, Southern Ontario. Geoarchaeology: 865-887.
1996 Crawford, Gary W. and David G. Smith, Migration in Prehistory: Princess Point and the Northern Iroquoian Case. American Antiquity 61:782-790.
1995 Smith, David G., 1995 An Analysis of the Pottery and Pipes from Sainte-Marie among the Hurons and the Heron Site. In Before and Beyond Sainte-Marie: 1987-1990 Excavations at the Sainte-Marie among the Hurons Site Complex, edited by Jeanie Tummon & W. Barry Gray, pp.61-103. Dundas, Ontario: Copetown Press.
1995 David G. Smith and Gary W. Crawford, The Princess Point Complex and the Origins of Iroquoian Societies in Ontario. In Origins of the People of the Longhouse, edited by Andre Bekerman and Gary Warrick, pp. 55-70. Toronto: Ontario Archaeological Society.
1992 David G. Smith, Stylistic Variation in Middleport Smoking Pipes. IN Proceedings of the 1989 Smoking Pipe Conference, edited by C.F. Hayes III. Rochester Museum and Science Center, Research Records 22:15-30. © Rochester Museum & Science Center.
1990 David G. Smith, Iroquoian Societies in Southern Ontario: Introduction and Historical Overview. IN The Archaeology of Southern Ontario to AD 1650, edited by Chris J. Ellis and Neal Ferris. Occasional Publication of the London Chapter, Ontario Archaeological Society 5:279-290. © London, Chapter, Ontario Archaeological Society.
1990 Christine F. Dodd, Dana R. Poulton, Paul A. Lennox, David G. Smith & Gary A. Warrick, The Middle Ontario Iroquoian Stage. IN The Archaeology of Southern Ontario to AD 1650, edited by Chris J. Ellis and Neal Ferris. Occasional Publication of the London Chapter, Ontario Archaeological Society 5:321-359. © , London, Chapter, Ontario Archaeological Society.
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Shifts in Middle to Late Woodland Settlement Systems in South-Central Ontario.
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