Horizon Archaeology Inc. is a mid-sized Cultural Resource Management company established in 1977.

Active in our early years on the international front, we have now specialized in Ontario Archaeology for well over a decade.

Horizon Archaeology Inc. offers a full range of archaeological services, (with the exception of underwater excavation) working closely with Ontario's commercial, industrial and residential planning and development community.

Our larger projects include work on Baffin Island, solar energy projects throughout Northern Ontario and several large-scale assessments for the mining and forestry sector.

Assessments for housing and aggregate developments throughout Ontario, as well as cultural value protection assessments of sites within Ontario's Provincial Parks system, form the core of our business.

Internationally, we have handled major, large scale projects in Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Great Britain.

Lead by Dr. David Slattery, (B.A. & M.A. Wilfred Laurier University, PhD University of Manchester, UK) our team of 4 licensed archaeologists and additional support staff is augmented by contracted specialists as required.

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Victoria Brooks has a B.A. in Historic/Industrial Archaeology from Wilfrid Laurier University and an M.A. from University College Dublin in Post-Medieval Archaeology. She has been working for Horizon Archaeology since 2009. Her excavation experience began in 2004 with an excavation in Bermuda at the site of an 18th Century home. She was invited back the following year and also asked to be part of excavations at Fort Bruere, an American Revolutionary War site, where she also catalogued the material culture. As part of her M.A. work she completed a survey of Palmerstown, a small industrial village in South County Dublin.

Her fieldwork in Ontario includes excavations with Wilfrid Laurier University at Ruthven Park, where, in 2004 she was a student and in 2006 she was a Teaching Assistant. She has completed archaeological fieldwork in all 4 stages of investigation, from various locations such as downtown Toronto, Rural Ontario and Northern Ontario.

In addition to her work in the archaeological world, she has also worked as Built Heritage Consultant. Her work in Built Heritage includes the investigation of bridges in Nanticoke, Hearst and Kitchener. She has also assessed several houses in the Waterloo and Peel Regions.

Her lab work includes two years as a lab assistant at Wilfrid Laurier University where she catalogued various historic sites from Southern Ontario. More recently she has completed a catalogue of the artifacts from the 2010 excavations at Todmorden Mills. She is a member of the OAS (Ontario Archaeological Society) and currently holds a Research License.

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Active in Ontario archaeology since 1993, Dayle received his Bachelor of Arts (Honours) from Wilfrid Laurier in 1996, and Master of Arts from the University of Toronto in 1999. He is a member of the Ontario Archaeological Society (OAS) and a Professional member of the Association of Professional Archaeologists (APA). Dayle has extensive experience in every facet of Ontario archaeology including archival research, archaeological survey, and site excavation. He has given numerous lectures and presentations on archaeology to elementary and high schools, OAS chapters, and has participated in OAS Archaeology Day events in Toronto.

In addition to his work in Ontario, Dayle also has extensive experience working in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan where he has excavated sites dating from the Neolithic to Early Islamic Periods. His research interests include settlement pattern analysis, archaeological survey methodology, state formation, and the shift from nomadism/ hunter-gathering to sedentarization.