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Robert MacDonald has been on staff at ASI. since 1982. As the Manager of the Burlington
Robert I. MacDonald has been on the staff of Archaeological Services Inc. (ASI) since 1982. Currently he is a Partner at Large, cross appointed to the Planning Assessment, Environmental Assessment, and Special Projects Divisions of ASI. In the Planning Assessment Division he manages complex archaeological assessment and mitigation projects. In the Environmental Assessment Division he manages the archaeological and built-heritage components of large Individual Environmental Assessment (IEA) and Canadian Environmental Assessment (CEA) projects. In the Special Projects Division he primarily develops site potential models for archaeological master plans.
Rob received his Honours Bachelor of Science and Master of Arts degrees in Anthropology from Trent University and his doctorate from McGill University. His doctoral research consisted of a detailed examination of the environmental parameters of Iroquoian settlement in south-central Ontario. His special areas of expertise include ecological archaeology, archaeological site potential modelling, geographic information system (GIS) applications in archaeology, Iroquoian archaeology, and lithic analysis.
Since 2004, Dr. MacDonald has also been an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Waterloo and a Research Fellow of the Trent University Archaeological Research Centre. A former Deputy-Director of the Quaternary Sciences Institute at the University of Waterloo, in 1991 Rob co-organized an international conference for the Institute and in 1994 edited and published the proceedings of that symposium under the title Great Lakes Archaeology and Paleoecology: Exploring Interdisciplinary Initiatives for the Nineties. In 1997 he co-edited, with Ron Williamson, the inaugural volume of the ASI Occasional Publications series, In the Shadow of the Bridge: The Archaeology of the Peace Bridge Site (AfGr-9), 1994-1996 Investigations. This was followed, in 1998, by the book, co-authored with Ron Williamson, Legacy of Stone: Ancient Life on the Niagara Frontier, published by eastendbooks. Most recently, in 2008, he co-authored (with William Lovis) an article in the 4 volume encyclopedia Archaeology in America, published by Greenwood Publishing Group, and contributed a chapter to the book Toronto: An Illustrated History of Its First 12,000 Years, edited by Ron Williamson and published by James Lorimer & Company.
Throughout his career with ASI, Rob MacDonald has served as Project Director and/or Field Director on hundreds of single- and multi-phased archaeological assessment and salvage excavation projects throughout southern and eastern Ontario. He has also played a key role in the development of pre-contact Aboriginal site potential models for the archaeological master plans of the Town of Richmond Hill, the Town of East Gwillimbury, the Ministry of Natural Resources’ Temagami Planning District, the District Municipality of Muskoka, the City of Brantford, the Town of Fort Erie, the Regional Municipality of Halton, the Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton, the Town of Niagara-on-the-Lake, the City of Kingston, and the City of Toronto.
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