This dissertation employs an eclectic approach to archaeology, in which
various theories from culture history, processualism, and post-processualism are
used together as aspects of a single approach to archaeological history. This
multifocal methodology is discussed, and used to organize and present the
archaeological survey results from Ashuanipi, a large lake in the Lake Plateau Region
of the Quebec Labrador Peninsula. Questions related to predictive modelling,
cultural resources management, boreal forest ecology, landscape change,
archaeological theory and practice, and Innu history are raised throughout the
process – some of these question are answered, while others are guideposts for
future research