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Alberta’s culture-historical model and the Southern Alberta Flood Investigation Program

Description

The Southern Alberta Flood Investigation Program resulted in the recovery of substantial amounts of archaeological material. Excavations were conducted at highly threatened sites. The artifact assemblages recovered from these excavations both support our current understanding of Alberta’s past and challenge some long-held ideas. The new information supports recently conceived ideas of the Calderwood Complex, Bracken Phase, and Avonlea-Old Women’s Transition. As well, long-held notions of the Old Women’s Phase are supported. Still, the study provides substantial evidence that the protohistoric Old Women’s Phase/Blackfoot is more complex than originally believed, with a possible intrusion by the Highwood Phase/Shoshone. Furthermore, there is evidence during the protohistoric Old Women’s Phase/Blackfoot for a more rapid change than previously considered from traditional to European goods. Part of the 37th volume of the Archaeological Survey of Alberta Occasional Paper series, which contains 18 articles exploring multiple facets of the impact on archaeological resources of the 2013 flood in southern Alberta.

Updated

December 31, 2017

Tags
Archaeological Survey of Alberta Protohistoric Period Southern Alberta Flood Investigation Program Southern Alberta flood archaeological resources archaeological surveys flooding floods

Publisher / Creator Information

Publisher

Culture and Tourism

Contributor

Peck, Trevor R.

Place of Publication

Edmonton

Resource Dates

Date Created

2017-12-31

Date Added

2018-01-30T22:02:05.184171

Date Modified

2017-12-31

Date Issued

2018-01-30

Audience information

Identifiers

ISBN (pdf)

9781460137659

Usage / Licence

Licence

No licence

Contact

Contact Name

Todd Kristensen