Dr. Ron Williamson is Chief Archaeologist with the firm Archaeological Services Inc. One of the largest cultural resource management firms in Ontario.
He holds an MA and PhD in Anthropology from McGill University in Montreal Quebec and a Hon. BA in Anthropology from the University of Western Ontario.
He has directed over 1,000 surveys, excavations and planning projects in the Great Lakes/Northeastern North America region. This includes remains from 12,000 years ago to modern times.
He is also an adjunct professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto.
He’s the author of several books, the most recent of which is, Toronto: An illustrated history of its first 12,000 years. Other books include Bones of the Ancestors: The Archaeology and Osteobiography of the Moatfield Ossuary, which he co-wrote with University of Toronto Professor Susan Pfeiffer and Death at Snake Hill: Secrets from a War of 1812, which he also co-authored.
