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<< Text Pages >> Quarry of the Ancestors - Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry in Canada

Submitted by bat400 on Friday, 15 September 2006  Page Views: 13279

Multi-periodSite Name: Quarry of the Ancestors
Country: Canada
NOTE: This site is 371.886 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry
Nearest Town: Fort McKay, Alberta
Latitude: 57.260000N  Longitude: 111.538W
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:
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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
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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
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Ancient Quarry in Alberta. The site occupation dates to 12,000 BC and was used for thousands of years. Paleo-Indian period stone tools fashioned from what has been known as "Beaver River Sandstone" are now known to have come from this location, just north-east of the modern town of Fort McKay. These tools were traded throughout northern Alberta and Saskatchewan.

The site was discovered in 2003 in a standard archaeological survey conducted by the Birch Mountain Resources mining company. The find resulted in mining operations being moved from the area, which covers more than a square kilometer. The location given is aproximate. Note the modern quarry areas surrounding it in the Flash Earth view.)

[Information from the Toronto Star from the Canadian Press wire service, and the Birch Mountain Resources webpages. The land is owned by the Fort Mackay First Nation who lease the mining rights to Birch Hills Resources (associated with Birch Mountain.) Cooperation between the parties seems aimed to perserve the site free from mining operation and conduct digs to learn more about the original "miners."]

The site is now on the Alberta Register of Historic Places, which preserves it from industrial and residential development. https://hermis.alberta.ca/ARHP

Note: New discoveries reported, see comment
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Re: Quarry of the Ancestors by bat400 on Saturday, 16 September 2006
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If anyone is upset by the arrangement of Mining Company - Local Folks - Archaeologists they just don't seem to have a web presence. Sounds like everyone loves this place. If you want to know more:
Article on the quarry site
First Nation Marketing agreement
And it never hurts to have a former sports star as one of your directors
- links to stories may now be broken.
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Re: Quarry of the Ancestors by Andy B on Friday, 15 September 2006
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Oilsands activity has uncovered vast wealth of a different kind - a 10,000-year-old quarry, rich with tools and weapons from some of the first Albertans, including a pristine spearpoint still smeared with the blood of a woolly mammoth.

"It's got this echo of the Ice Age world," said Jack Ives, Alberta's provincial archeologist, who described the find in a hearing before the province's energy regulator yesterday. "There's quite a rich concentration of artifacts."

The so-called Quarry of the Ancestors, which scientists suspect may be one of first places where humans lived in northern Alberta after the retreat of the glaciers, is found on an outcrop of hard, fine-grained sandstone adjacent to the Albian Sands oilsands lease about 75 kilometres north of Fort McMurray.

The $12.8-billion Albian Sands project is currently before the province's Energy and Utilities Board.

Source: London Free Press - link to story now broken.
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