With more than 30 staff members working out of offices in Toronto and Burlington, ASI is the largest
and most experienced archaeological consulting firm in Ontario. ASI provides a variety of services, including: complete
heritage resource assessments (as part of environmental impact studies or subdivision plans review);
large scale heritage planning studies; the documentation of archaeological and built heritage features on
properties of proposed development; and the salvage excavation of archaeological sites.
Our staff has considerable expertise in numerous fields including:
ASI staff members are experienced in the analysis and presentation of all types of
precontact and historic artifact data. Our graphics personnel are
skilled in providing visual representations of these data using a variety of CAD and graphics programs,
which provide an enhanced understanding of project information. Our Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
development and applications requirements are also fulfilled in-house allowing us to meet any of our
client’s demands.
Specialist analyses of zooarchaeological and paleobotanical remains recovered from archaeological
sites are completed by ASI staff as well as Bioarchaeological Research of Toronto and Dr. Suzanne Needs-Howarth,
on a contract basis. Specialist analyses of human osteological remains recovered from archaeological
sites are completed by ASI staff or by internationally recognized experts, on a contract basis.
Our Built Heritage, Cultural Landscape and Planning Section serves to complement our core archaeological
consulting services by providing heritage conservation expertise in a number of key areas, most notably:
environmental assessment, land-use planning and development activities and cultural resource management
plans. As part of these activities, the Section provides project management in complex, multi-component
cultural heritage projects and has particular strengths in historical research, built heritage and
cultural landscape inventories, heritage conservation district studies, expert witness testimony and
heritage bridge conservation.