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<< Text Pages >> Beaverly Workshop - Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry in Canada

Submitted by bat400 on Thursday, 12 July 2007  Page Views: 7144

Multi-periodSite Name: Beaverly Workshop
Country: Canada
NOTE: This site is 158.364 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry
Nearest Town: Prince George, BC  Nearest Village: Beaverly, BC
Latitude: 53.878000N  Longitude: 122.98W
Condition:
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1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
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Ancient Stone Tool Workshop in British Columbia.
Tool finds and knapping remains indicate a substantial pre-contact stone tool workshop.

Location given is approximate for the area at the confluence of the Nechako and Chilako Rivers.

Note: Tool Workshop Find Rare in British Columbia Interior, see comment.
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Re: Beaverly Workshop by bat400 on Thursday, 12 July 2007
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A slightly different article on the same finds appears here.
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Canadian tudents find ancient tool-making camp by bat400 on Thursday, 12 July 2007
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Submitted by coldrum ---
Broken spear tips and flakes of materials difficult to date, but likely between 400 and several thousand years old, prof says

Broken spear tips and flakes of raw materials unearthed near Prince George are believed to be the remnants of a stone-tool manufacturing camp dating back more than 400 years.

Students at the University of Northern B.C. have discovered more than 200 artifacts at a protected archeological site at Beaverley, about 30 km west of Prince George. The group, which has been digging for the past month, will now try to figure out who was making the tools, and when.

"It's really exciting. It's obvious evidence of people being there way in the past," said student Leana Garraway, 32. "Not much archeological work has been done here, so we don't have a lot of answers. It's like any other kind of detective work to figure out what has happened."

The dig, near the confluence of the Nechako and Chilako rivers, marks the first time a university-led archeological dig has been conducted in the northern Interior in more than 30 years. UNBC Prof. Farid Rahemtulla said the area, which was protected three years ago, remains "virtually unknown" to archeologists, most of whom focus their digs on the coast or in the southern Interior.

The dig uncovered several remnants of projectile points, suggesting the first nations people used the site to craft tools while collecting game and berries.

The flakes are from various materials including dacite, which is common in the Interior, along with chert, usually found in limestone, and obsidian or volcanic glass, which isn't normally found in the area.

Rahemtulla said the next step is to establish a cultural chronology for this area and to get lab tests done on a radial carbon sample as well as soil sediment.

The students will continue working with the Lheidli T'enneh and Nazko first nations to research the area.
For more, see the story by Kelly Sinoski in the Vancouver Sun.
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