Tag: Scraper
By Corey Cookson
March 25, 2019
Top Ten Sites of 2018!
Now that all the reporting is done, we thought it was a good time to look back on some of the exciting sites we worked on from the past year. We find over 100 sites every year but these sites stand out either because we found interesting artifacts or the site is unique. It doesn’t
Keep ReadingTags: antique glass | Athabasca River | Biface | boreal forest | calcined | faunal | Hammerstone | historic structure | Indigenous Peoples | Knife River Flint | Lithics | projectile point | Rocky Mountains | Scraper | Slave Lake | spokeshave | Strachan Forest Products | Sundre Forest Products | Weyerhaeuser Pembina Timberlands
By Teresa Tremblay
June 8, 2016
End Scraper
This week we feature a stone tool found upstream on Fall Creek, about 55 km west of the community of Caroline, AB. We were undertaking an assessment for Sundre Forest Products and testing a flat area overlooking the creek (shown below) when Ryan found the end scraper shown above. A “scraper” is a type of
Keep ReadingTags: Alberta | archaeological | Caroline | Indigenous Peoples | Lithics | Rocky Mountains | Scraper | Sites | stone tool | Sundre Forest Products | unifacial