CURSE OF THE AXE

CURSE OF THE AXE: New Archaelogical Discoveries right under your feet!

The ROM is proud to present the world premiere screening of The Curse of the Axe. Narrated by Robbie Robertson of the legendary music group The Band, it is a riveting documentary of the recent extraordinary archaeological discovery right near Toronto that is rewriting history and our understanding of North American life before the arrival of the Europeans.

Led by Dr. Ron Williamson, one of Canada’s foremost First Nations experts, a team of world-renowned archaeologists unearths the largest and most complex Huron First Nations village ever found and is stunned to discover that the village is 500 years old!

Dr. Ron Williamson and the director of the film Robin Bicknell will be on hand after the screening for Q&A and they will be bringing artifacts from the dig including the axe fragment!

The settlement`s size, structure, its mere existence, changes what we know about the way these people lived. The archaeologists who discovered it are now confronted by a series of mysteries: ?Who were these people? Where did they come from? And what happened to them?

Compounding the mystery of this remarkable discovery is the second, shocking discovery of a mysterious metal object found, buried with great care and respect. It is made of iron, a material totally alien to the Huron. The object is believed to be some kind of blade, perhaps once part of an axe. But the stunning discovery raised more questions than it answered. How did a piece of European iron get to this village almost 100 years before the arrival of the first Europeans? Where did it come from? And why was it buried?

Cost : Public (RSVP only) $0.00, Member (RSVP only) $0.00