All Resources

Archaeology in southern Alberta : excavations at Writing-on-Stone. Archaeology in southern Alberta : stone circles at Chin Coulee.

Description

Contains two papers in the Occasional Paper series. Excavations at Writing-On-Stone (Occasional Paper 12) reports on excavations at selected locations of the rock art site of Writing-On-Stone... More ≫

Description

Contains two papers in the Occasional Paper series. Excavations at Writing-On-Stone (Occasional Paper 12) reports on excavations at selected locations of the rock art site of Writing-On-Stone Provincial Park. The excavations demonstrate repeated native occupation of the area from approximately 3,000 BC into historic times. Significantly, bone tools found directly beneath petroglyph panels indicate that rock art was being created at Writing-on-Stone some 1,500 years earlier than previously suspected. Stone circles at Chin Coulee (Occasional Paper 13) presents results of salvage archaeological studies carried out in October 1975 of two tipi ring sites located on Chin Coulee, south of Taber. Proposed realignment of Highway 36 to would impact these sites.

Tags

The Elk Point Burial "at the place of the Willows", Alberta

Description

In October 1975, a human burial was located during construction activities in Elk Point, Alberta. It consisted of the flexed skeleton of a middle-aged male, with a bundle of artifacts in place... More ≫

Description

In October 1975, a human burial was located during construction activities in Elk Point, Alberta. It consisted of the flexed skeleton of a middle-aged male, with a bundle of artifacts in place under his head. Due to exceptionally good preservation, many perishables are present among these artifacts and a number of special analyses thus have been possible. As the result of full osteological, artifactual and contextual analyses the burial is dated to the first decade of the nineteenth century and the individual identified as probably a Cree, probably a medicine man and possibly a member of the Cree mite·wiwin society.

Tags

Cypress Hills ethnohistory and ecology : a regional perspective

Description

Students of the northwestern plains archaeological region have very limited and scattered amounts of historical and ethnographic records available to them for study. This lack has prompted us to... More ≫

Description

Students of the northwestern plains archaeological region have very limited and scattered amounts of historical and ethnographic records available to them for study. This lack has prompted us to develope a new organizational framework which synthesizes ethnohistoric data gathered from previous literature, archaeological assemblages and available ecological data. This theoretical organization model is discussed in detail and applied with reference to the prehistory of the Cypress Hills area, Alberta.

Tags

Tipi rings in southern Alberta : the Lazy Dog Site. The Alkali Creek sites.

Description

Occasional Paper No. 8 presents the results of the excavation of two of nine tipi rings at the Lazy Dog Tipi Ring site, a small tipi ring campsite on the northern fringe of the Northwestern Plains... More ≫

Description

Occasional Paper No. 8 presents the results of the excavation of two of nine tipi rings at the Lazy Dog Tipi Ring site, a small tipi ring campsite on the northern fringe of the Northwestern Plains Cultural area in Central Alberta. Occasional Paper No. 9 reports on a second season of archaeological study on the lower Red Deer River which was conducted to expand the knowledge of cultural activity in the region.

Tags

Studies in archaeology Highway 1A Coal Creek revision, Alberta

Description

Salvage excavations were undertaken in 1974 at two sites, one prehistoric and one historic, in the Coal Creek – Grand Valley area west of Cochrane. These sites were to be impacted to varying... More ≫

Description

Salvage excavations were undertaken in 1974 at two sites, one prehistoric and one historic, in the Coal Creek – Grand Valley area west of Cochrane. These sites were to be impacted to varying degrees by the planned revisions of Highway 1a and Grand Valley Road. The prehistoric site was a multiple component tipi ring site, containing a minimum of three occupations. The historic site was a coal mining site operational between 1887 and 1890. The site studies detailed in this report were undertaken to map and selectively excavate sufficient areas of the two sites so that the spatial, temporal and cultural relationships of both sites could be determined.

Tags

Early cultures of the Clearwater River area : northeastern Alberta

Description

In this monograph the culture history of the Clearwater River Drainage Basin Area is examined. Drawing upon archaeological materials gathered during fieldwork involving basic survey and test... More ≫

Description

In this monograph the culture history of the Clearwater River Drainage Basin Area is examined. Drawing upon archaeological materials gathered during fieldwork involving basic survey and test excavations on three archaeological sites, along with supporting data from ethnohistorical sources and the work of other researchers, an attempt has been made to delineate a complex cultural-chronological sequence extending from the historic era back to circa 8,000 B.C.

Tags

Prehistoric survey of the lower Red Deer River, 1975

Description

Presents results of a three-month survey made during the summer of 1975 to trace a section of the river, to inventory sites, and to outline the prehistoric character of the region.

Tags

Archaeological research in northern Alberta 1975

Description

An archaeological survey of the Caribou and Birch Mountains and portions of the Peace, Athabasca and Clearwater rivers in northern Alberta was directed at inventorying sites and assessing whether... More ≫

Description

An archaeological survey of the Caribou and Birch Mountains and portions of the Peace, Athabasca and Clearwater rivers in northern Alberta was directed at inventorying sites and assessing whether or not differential occupation of two ecologically dissimilar uplands had occurred. Greater usage of the Birch than the Caribou Mountains upland was evidenced by the more extensive and more densely distributed sites on the Birch Mountains. Differential use of lakes on the uplands was also recorded and possible explanations are offered for it.

Tags