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<< Text Pages >> Stampede Site - Ancient Village or Settlement in Canada

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Multi-periodSite Name: Stampede Site
Country: Canada
NOTE: This site is 128.942 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
 Nearest Village: Elkwater, Alberta
Latitude: 49.663000N  Longitude: 110.203W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
no data Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
no data Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Ancient Seasonal Settlement in Alberta Canada.

A site of rich resources for over 8000 years, this area was a kill and butchering site as well as a quarrying and tool "workshop" site.
The location is approximate for the north slopes of the Cypress Hills Park area.

Note: See the article with photo from Canadian Geographic.
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8000 Years Down - Post Ice Age site by bat400 on Saturday, 18 November 2006
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Eight Thousand Years Down

Not long after the last ice age, spear-throwing bison hunters made camp in a meadow in Alberta's Cypress Hills. An archaeological dig has revealed how the generations that followed used that same site for more than eight millennia.

Excerpt of story by Candace Savage with photography by Todd Korol

In his T-shirt and muddy jeans, University of Calgary archaeologist Gerry Oetelaar does not look equipped for time travel. Yet there he stands, in a small, leafy clearing just east of the resort town of Elkwater in Alberta's Cypress Hills, poised to take a flying leap into the past.

At his feet lies a sheer-sided rectangular hole big enough to swallow a bungalow. It is known as the Stampede Site, so called because the local rodeo grounds are nearby. Oetelaar and his students dug it, one trowelful at a time, over six summers from 2000 to 2005. As a result of their meticulous exertions, he and his team have recovered nearly a million artifacts...
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