Meaning-Making at the Lawson Site
By the mid-1980s, significant, land-altering excavation at the Lawson Site had largely ceased in favour of smaller and constantly revisited field school and public archaeology excavation. The open area inside the palisade and around Longhouse 1 offered an ideal venue for events and activities beyond those traditionally associated with archaeology. One of the first and longest-lived of these events is the Indigenous-led Harvest Festival, first celebrated in 1984.
