All Resources
Search a listing of Government of Alberta open datasets and publications.
Views: 443
Updated
July 26, 2019
Description
This is an article about pre-contact stone features in Alberta. The results of an archaeological excavation of a stone cairn in southern Alberta are compared to results of other excavations at...
Tags
Views: 336
Updated
July 24, 2019
Description
This is an article about digital methods of heritage preservation. The article outlines the results of efforts to digitally document a historic building in southern Alberta prior to dismantling....
Tags
Views: 4
Updated
July 24, 2019
Description
The swing of things: Contributions to archaeological research in Alberta, 2018 is part of the Archaeological Survey of Alberta. This issue contains a series of archaeology articles that inform...
Tags
Views: 743
Updated
February 20, 2019
Description
This archaeology paper describes work at a stratified site in Jasper National Park, Alberta. Aeolian silts covering the terrace at this site (243R) contained evidence of five cultural components....
Tags
Views: 612
Updated
January 16, 2019
Description
This archaeology paper presents several technological resources available to practising archaeologists in culture resource management and academia. The paper discusses how remote sensing methods...
Tags
Views: 364
Updated
January 16, 2019
Description
This archaeology paper discusses an artifact type used in pre-contact and historic decoration. Elk ivory pendants adorned clothing and had significant symbolic value for cultural groups in Alberta.
Tags
Views: 500
Updated
December 14, 2018
Description
Stone production debris (debitage) is the most common artifact type found at archaeological sites in North America. A significant time investment is required to catalogue debitage from large...
Tags
Views: 688
Updated
December 14, 2018
Description
The Vertical Series type of Indigenous rock art is found at only a handful of sites across the northern Great Plains. Discovery of a new site is therefore significant. In 2012 the Glenwood Erratic...
Tags
Views: 306
Updated
February 27, 2018
Description
The swing of things: Contributions to archaeological research in Alberta, 2018 is part of the Archaeological Survey of Alberta. This issue is a dedication to Wilt Wright, an Alberta archaeologist...
Tags
Views: 1357
Updated
February 27, 2018
Description
This article is the fourth in a series intended to assist the identification of raw materials used for precontact stone tools in Alberta. Each article focuses on one raw material; the current...