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Reconciling local, global, and Indigenous values : a history of the Writing-on-Stone / Áísínai’pi World Heritage inscription

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The inscription of Writing-on-Stone / Áísínai’pi on the World Heritage List in 2019 was the culmination of a fifteen-year long nomination process. The nomination recognized the international... More ≫

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The inscription of Writing-on-Stone / Áísínai’pi on the World Heritage List in 2019 was the culmination of a fifteen-year long nomination process. The nomination recognized the international significance of this Blackfoot cultural landscape, but the process also exposed tensions between local, global, and Indigenous values. Consultation with Blackfoot and local settler communities during the National Historic Site of Canada commemoration that preceded the World Heritage site nomination indicated broad support for inscription of Writing-on-Stone / Áísínai’pi. However, engagement with local settler communities during the World Heritage site nomination process led to multiple iterations of the submission, as the nomination team attempted to balance the original Blackfoot vision of a cultural landscape that extended beyond Writing-on-Stone / Áísínai’pi against local community concerns with the nominated property boundaries and buffer zone. Integrating recent settler history within the...

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Archaeology on the brink : papers in honour of John W. Brink, 2023

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This volume is dedicated to Jack Brink who undertook ground-breaking research over his 40 year career with the Archaeological Survey of Alberta and Royal Alberta Museum. He produced many... More ≫

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This volume is dedicated to Jack Brink who undertook ground-breaking research over his 40 year career with the Archaeological Survey of Alberta and Royal Alberta Museum. He produced many publications and presentations for professional and avocational audiences, he played a formative role in the development of cultural resource management policy in Alberta, and was a creative and driving force in the establishment of world-class interpretive facilities and public programs. The papers in this volume discuss a variety of archaeological topics in Western Canada that continue Jack's legacy of shaping people and research.

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I’ll aways miss the point... and I still don’t know Jack

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This paper is an adapted conference presentation for inclusion in a collection of tributes to Jack Brink. The paper is meant to stand as a memory to those who attended the conference symposium and... More ≫

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This paper is an adapted conference presentation for inclusion in a collection of tributes to Jack Brink. The paper is meant to stand as a memory to those who attended the conference symposium and to honour an admired colleague.

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Bibliography of Jack W. Brink

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This is a bibliography of articles and book chapters by Jack W. Brink.

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Back on the horse : recent developments in archaeological and palaeontological research in Alberta

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This is the 36th volume of the Archaeological Survey of Alberta Occasional Paper series. The Archaeological Survey of Alberta Occasional Paper series was established in 1976 as a means of... More ≫

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This is the 36th volume of the Archaeological Survey of Alberta Occasional Paper series. The Archaeological Survey of Alberta Occasional Paper series was established in 1976 as a means of disseminating information to archaeological specialists in Alberta. The series was discontinued from 1994 to 2015, but was re-established in 2016 as an online resource. This first volume is a series of manuscripts authored, in whole or part, by past and present staff of the Archaeological Survey of Alberta and Royal Alberta Museum.

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The Cochrane Ranche Historic Site : archaeological excavations, 1977

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In 1977, archaeological investigations were carried out at the Cochrane Ranche site prior to the development of the site as an historic park. The investigations obtained general information about... More ≫

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In 1977, archaeological investigations were carried out at the Cochrane Ranche site prior to the development of the site as an historic park. The investigations obtained general information about the ranch period of the late 19th century in Western Canada, provided detailed construction information on two buildings, identified the material culture of the inhabitants and provided some evidence of behavioural differences between occupants of the two major residential structures.

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

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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 ≫

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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.

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Cypress Hills ethnohistory and ecology : a regional perspective

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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 ≫

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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.

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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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