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This article is the first in the Alberta Lithic Reference Project series, the goal of which is to assist the identification of raw materials used for pre-contact stone tools in the province. Each...
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Medicine wheels are ceremonially significant boulder structures built on the plains by First Nations people. The Archaeological Survey of Alberta commissioned inventories on provincially and...
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For a number of years, the Royal Alberta Museum displayed a seventh cervical bison vertebra from north central Alberta that exhibited a severe pathology resulting from a humanly inflicted wound....
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Mauls are a grooved ground stone tool found at archaeological sites in central and southern Alberta. Rarely studied as a valid tool category, the most commonly assumed function of mauls is the...
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Archaeological investigations at the Northwest Company/Hudson’s Bay Company Fort Vermilion I started in 1999. This paper summarizes some of the major findings and results of the 2004-2014...
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Introduces the 36th volume of the Archaeological Survey of Alberta Occasional Paper series, which has been revived after a 22-year absence. The revived series will focus on publishing short...
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This article is the second in the Alberta Lithic Reference Project series, the goal of which is to assist the identification of raw materials used for pre-contact stone tools in the province. Each...
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This article is the third in the Alberta Lithic Reference Project series, the goal of which is to assist the identification of raw materials used for pre-contact stone tools in the province. Each...
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Recent fieldwork associated with flooding of major river drainages in southern Alberta produced several new records of Bison. Specimens reported range in age from late Pleistocene to late...
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Periodic flood events are normal for rivers. These events sometimes deposit sediments that trap biological remains that can be used to reconstruct the local environment. Following the 2013...