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

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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 ≫

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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.

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

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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 ≫

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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.

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Studies in archaeology Highway 1A Coal Creek revision, Alberta

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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 ≫

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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.

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