Majorville Cairn and Medicine Wheel Site, Alberta

Majorville Cairn and Medicine Wheel Site, Alberta

Author: James M. Calder

Publisher: University of Ottawa Press

Published: 1977-01-01

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 1772820601

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The Majorville is a large cairn located in the centre of a medicine wheel, situated south of Bassano, Alberta, on the banks of the Bow River. Stratigraphic excavation indicates initial construction in Oxbow times, with additional accretions ending in the Historic Period. Cultural continuity in ritual practice in the Plains over a period of 5,000 years is thus established.


Prehistoric Occupations of Black Lake, Northern Saskatchewan

Prehistoric Occupations of Black Lake, Northern Saskatchewan

Author: Sheila Joan Minni

Publisher: University of Ottawa Press

Published: 1976-01-01

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 1772820504

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Black Lake was occupied on a discontinuous basis from approximately 6000 B.C. to the historic period by cultures originating from a number of different physiographic zones. An economical model outlines the historic and late prehistoric dependance of the Chipewyan on the barren ground caribou herds.


Estuary Bison Pound Site in Southwestern Saskatchewan

Estuary Bison Pound Site in Southwestern Saskatchewan

Author: Gary F. Adams

Publisher: University of Ottawa Press

Published: 1977-01-01

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 1772820660

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Excavations in 1971 and 1972 reveal two major occupation levels at the Estuary Bison Pound site, located near the head of a large coulee on the south bank of the South Saskatchewan River, just below its confluence with the Red Deer River. They present strong evidence to suggest that the Old Women’s phase developed from the Avonlea phase.


Boys Site and the Early Ontario Iroquois Tradition

Boys Site and the Early Ontario Iroquois Tradition

Author: C. S. Reid

Publisher: University of Ottawa Press

Published: 1975-01-01

Total Pages: 139

ISBN-13: 1772820407

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The tenth century Boys site (AiGs-Lo), a Pickering branch village of the early Ontario Iroquois tradition, provides data on settlement, trade, subsistence, and artifact patterns. Detailed comparisons with the earlier Pickering Miller site and the later Pickering Bennett site are presented and new data for chronological ordering and a number of unique features of this village are discussed.


Potato Island Site, District of Kenora, Ontario

Potato Island Site, District of Kenora, Ontario

Author: Polly Koezur

Publisher: University of Ottawa Press

Published: 1976-01-01

Total Pages: 125

ISBN-13: 1772820482

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A number of aspects of the prehistory of northern Ontario are considered in these reports. Of central concern are the spatial variations of the Terminal Woodland ceramics and the evidence for the transition from the Laurel assemblage into Blackduck assemblage


DeBlicquy

DeBlicquy

Author: William Ewart Taylor

Publisher: University of Ottawa Press

Published: 1981-01-01

Total Pages: 102

ISBN-13: 1772820962

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This study summarizes archaeological excavations in the DeBlicquy site, Bathurst Island, Northwest Territories and the resulting data gathered in July 1961 of a typical Thule culture winter village of the Canadian High Arctic. Stylistic analysis suggests that the site was occupied during middle Thule times and can probably be dated between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries A.D.


Archaeological Survey of Canada Annual Review 1980-1981 / Commission archéologique du Canada, rapports annuels 1980-1981

Archaeological Survey of Canada Annual Review 1980-1981 / Commission archéologique du Canada, rapports annuels 1980-1981

Author: Robert McGhee

Publisher: University of Ottawa Press

Published: 1983-01-01

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 1772821098

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This volume describes the activities of the Archaeological Survey of Canada, National Museum of Man, for the years 1980 and 1981. / Un rapport sur les activités du Commission archéologique du Canada, Musée national de l’Homme pendant les années 1980 à 1981.


Archaeological Salvage Projects, 1974

Archaeological Salvage Projects, 1974

Author: Roscoe Wilmeth

Publisher: University of Ottawa Press

Published: 1975-01-01

Total Pages: 102

ISBN-13: 1772820369

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In 1974, the Salvage Section, Archaeological Survey of Canada, National Museum of Man, instituted nine archaeological salvage projects across the country. These ranged from a brief survey of one portion of the Mackenzie Highway to the extensive survey and excavations on the Suffield Military Reserve in southeastern Alberta. This volume contains summary articles describing these projects.


Archaeological Salvage Projects 1973

Archaeological Salvage Projects 1973

Author: William J. Byrne

Publisher: University of Ottawa Press

Published: 1974-01-01

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 1772820261

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In 1973 the Salvage Section, Archaeological Survey of Canada, National Museum of Man, instituted thirty-one archaeological salvage projects across the country. This report contains summary articles dealing with twenty-nine of these projects.