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<< Text Pages >> Augustine Mound - Round Barrow(s) in Canada

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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Augustine Mound Alternative Name: Metepenagiag Mound, Oxbow Archaeological Site (nearby)
Country: Canada
NOTE: This site is 352.279 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Round Barrow(s)

Latitude: 46.957150N  Longitude: 65.8377W
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Augustine Mound National Historic Site is an archaeological site located within the reserve land of the Metepenagiag Mi’kmaq Nation, New Brunswick, on the north side of the Little Southwest Miramichi River across from the present Mi’kmaq community. It includes a circular ritual site surrounding a slightly elevated burial mound that sits on low terrace near the junction of the Northwest and Little Southwest Miramichi Rivers.

Augustine Mound National Historic Site of Canada is located 700 metres east of the Oxbow National Historic Site of Canada.

Augustine Mound was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1975 because
- this site is an exceptional and enduring expression of Mi’kmaw spirituality, exhibiting burial rituals and artifacts directly connected to Adena traditions in eastern North America 2500 years ago.

Source: Canada's Historic Places, see also Wikipedia
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The Oxbow Archaeological Site by Andy B on Friday, 24 November 2017
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The Oxbow site is located on a low terrace along the north bank of the Little Southwest Miramichi River, 1 km west of its confluence with the Northwest Miramichi, Northumberland County, New Brunswick. The present day Mi'kmaq community of Metepenagiag, formerly Red Bank First Nation, lies opposite the Oxbow along the river's south bank. Strategically situated at the river's head-of-tide, Oxbow is a deeply stratified Maritime Woodland period village site. It was discovered in the early 1970s by the late Joseph M. Augustine.

An avid reader, nationally recognized trapper (by the Hudson's Bay Company), hunter and former Chief, Mr. Augustine had a keen interest both in his Mi'kmaq past and in the future of his community. Joe Augustine's discovery and subsequent reporting of the Oxbow site and of the nearby Augustine Mound led to over a decade of joint archaeological research by provincial archaeologists and Metepenagiag First Nation.

The Oxbow site was first tested in 1977. Its outstanding cultural heritage value was immediately recognized. The site contained over 2.5 m of pre-European cultural deposits. The site follows the river for circa 200 m and ranges between 40 m and 80 m wide. Working cooperatively with Metepanagiag crews extensive Oxbow excavations were conducted throughout the summers of 1978, 1979 and 1984. Although large scale, these excavations examined less than 2% of the site's known area.

Sandwiched between clean bands of river-deposited sands and silts, old village living floors were easily identified and loaded with artifacts from everyday life. Excepting charred vegetable and bone matter, the vast majority of artifacts recovered from the living floors and their associated hearths were remnants of pottery vessels and stone tools such as projectile points, scrapers and axes. Other items such as fragments of stone pipes and gaming discs offered a glimpse of early Mi'kmaq recreation.

http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/oxbow-archaeological-site/

The Augustine Mound is another Red Bank site that demonstrates early Mi’kmaq links with other regions. The Mound, discovered by the late Joseph Augustine, is a sacred ceremonial area where burials took place nearly 2500 years ago. The earth mound, the types of burials and the artifacts from the same suggest that a complicated trading system existed between the Miramichi Mi’kmaq and other Aboriginal groups from as far away as central Ohio. Sacred spiritual ceremonies and related items including polished stone smoking pipes, large and small copper beads, shell necklaces and beautifully-made flint knives were exchanged. The Mound continues to provide Mi’kmaq and other Native people with a spiritual sanctuary and a place for prayer and ceremonies.

http://www.gnb.ca/0007/heritage/oxbow/archaeology2.html
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Metepenagiag Heritage Park by Andy B on Friday, 24 November 2017
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Metepenagiag Heritage Park is located in Metepenagiag (Red Bank) New Brunswick, over viewing the ancestral home of the Metepenagiag Mi’kmaq First Nation.

Metepenagiag Heritage Park is the warden of two of the most significant aboriginal heritage archeological site in eastern Canada: the Augustine Mound National Historic Site and Oxbow National Historic Site.

Augustine Mound: “is an exceptional and enduring expression of Mi’kmaw spirituality, exhibiting burial rituals and artifacts directly connected to Adena traditions in North America 2500 years ago.”

Oxbow Site: “(it) is a unique cultural record of a flourishing Mi’kmaq community which has endured fro at last 3,000 years and it shows a direct relationship between the everyday life of the community and its spiritual center at Augustine Mound.”

These sites, demonstrated through archeological findings, prove that this location has been continuously inhabitant by the Mi’kmaq people for over 3,000 years “making it the oldest, continually occupied village in New Brunswick.”

Metepenagiag Heritage Parks’ primary objective it to preserve, protect and present the historical significance of the two National Historic Sites and therefore the Metepenagiag community, it’s culture and it’s people, as handed down through storytelling from generation to generation and as proven scientifically through archaeological recording.

http://www.metpark.ca

https://www.discovermiramichi.com/historic-rewind
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