The Lovstrom site (DjLx-1) is a Late Precontact multicomponent site located in the Tiger Hills of southwestern Manitoba. Two occupation levels identified in Block E are separated by an approximate 400 year time span, the oldest identified as Blackduck at 800 BP and a later Vickers Focus group occupying the site around 400 BP. Excavations took place between 1986 and 1991 as part of the Brandon University archaeological field school. In addition to the information gained from the recovery of amounts of cultural material, later excavations were also opened in an effort to gain knowledge about the amount of site disturbance. The amount of material artifacts uncovered during test pitting necessitated a number of excavation blocks be opened. This thesis focuses on the faunal material recovered from Block E. Although a number of species were identified, bison represents the vast majority of faunal material. The faunal analysis was undertaken to determine the composition of the bison herd and seasonality. Due to the nature of the site and the fragmented faunal assemblage an in-depth analysis took place to identify any taphonomic forces that may have disturbed the archaeological record. This includes both cultural and natural forces that acted on the Block E assemblage. The occupant’s butchering practices are compared and contrasted with additional comparisons made to similar nearby archaeological sites, including the Blackduck Stott site and the Vickers Focus Jackson site.

La transition entre le Sylvicole moyen et le Sylvicole supérieur, vers l’an 1000 de notre ère, correspond à un moment de bouleversements technologiques dans le Nord-Est américain. En Abitibi-Témiscamingue, il s’agit d’une transition entre les cultures Laurel orientale et Blackduck orientale. La poterie blackduckienne semble avoir été rapidement adoptée par les groupes laureliens, sans phase transitoire apparente. Ce mémoire s’intéresse aux technologies céramiques employées par les populations des cultures Laurel et Blackduck en Abitibi-Témiscamingue et cherche à comprendre s’il existe de la continuité ou de la discontinuité entre les deux ensembles. Plus précisément, il est question de voir comment se manifeste la transition entre les deux cultures et comment la technologie céramique permet de caractériser cette transition. Pour ce faire, quatre sites ont été sélectionnés de part et d’autre de la ligne de partage des eaux entre : le site Bérubé (DdGt 5), le site du lac Opasatica (DaGt-4), le site Nault (ClGt-2) et le site Léo-Guay (ClGt-3). Les vases laureliens et blackduckiens provenant de ces sites ont fait l’objet d’une analyse visuelle par attributs morphostylistiques et d’une analyse par attributs technologiques selon les données tomodensitométriques fournies par l’Institut national de recherche scientifique Eau-terre-environnement (INRS-ETE), à Québec. Puisque l’utilisation de la tomodensitométrie dans l’analyse technologique de la céramique est plutôt récente, ce mémoire se veut une contribution modeste, mais originale au développement de cette approche. À la lumière des analyses effectuées, la transition technologique s’est opérée plus lentement que la transition morphostylistique. Les potiers auraient graduellement développé un nouveau savoir-faire, par contact et par expérimentation, produisant un vase mieux adapté à la cuisson des aliments. / The transition between the Middle Woodland and Late Woodland periods, towards 1000 CE, corresponds to a moment of technological upheavals in the American Northeast. In Abitibi-Temiscamingue, it takes the form of a transition between the Eastern Laurel and Eastern Blackduck cultures. Blackduck pottery seems to have been quickly adopted by Laurel groups, with no apparent transitional phase. This masters’ thesis relates to the ceramic technologies employed by the populations of Laurel and Blackduck cultures in Abitibi-Temiscamingue and explors the continuity or lack of continuity between the two groups. More precisely, I ask how this transition between two cultures manifests itself and how ceramic technology allows us to characterize this transition. To that end, four sites have been selected on both sides of the watershed divide between: the Bérubé site, (DdGt-5), the lake Opasatica’s site (DaGt-4), the Nault site (ClGt-2) and the Léo-Guay site (ClGt-3). The Laurel and Blackduck vessels originating from these sites were subjected to a visual analysis using morphostylistic attributes and an analysis using technological attributes based on tomodensitometric data supplied by the Institut National de Recherche Scientifique - Eau Terre Environnement (INRS-ETE) research center located in Quebec City. Since the use of tomodensitometry in ceramic technological analysis is rather recent, this thesis seeks to be a modest but original contribution to the development of this approach. Based on our analyses, the technological transition happened more slowly than the morphostylistic transition. The potters would have gradually developed a new craftmanship, by contact and by experimentation, producing vessels better suited to cooking food.