Light from Ancient Campfires: Archaeological Evidence for Native Lifeways on the Northern PlainsLight from Ancient Campfires is the first book in twenty years to gather together a comprehensive prehistoric archaeological record of the Alberta Plains First Nations. In this monumental examination of the region's earliest inhabitants, author Trevor Peck reviews the many changes of interpretation that have occurred in relevant literature published during the last two decades. Beginning with the earliest archaeological evidence for people in Alberta, Light from Ancient Campfires chronologically covers each sequence, moving forward in time toward the present. Light from Ancient Campfires provides a new definition for each archaeological phase, setting previous literature in a new light. |
Contents
PREHISTORIC PERIOD | 5 |
ESTEVAN PHASE CA 4900 TO 4500 | 169 |
The Sites | 171 |
Oxbow Beginnings on the Alberta Plains | 176 |
OXBOW PHASE CA 4500 TO 4100 | 180 |
The Sites | 181 |
Cemeteries Boiling Pits and More | 191 |
MCKEAN COMPLEX CA 4200 TO 3500 | 199 |
5 | 304 |
MIDDLE TO LATE PREHISTORIC PERIOD TRANSITION 309 ca 1500 to 1350 BP 309 SONOTA PHASE CA 1500 TO 1350 | 309 |
The Sites | 312 |
Reviving the NewmanSyms Perspective | 321 |
ca 1350 to 250 BP 335 AVONLEA PHASE CA 1350 TO 1100 | 335 |
The Sites | 341 |
Migrant Archers from the East | 355 |
AVONLEAOLD WOMENS TRANSITION CA 1100 | 366 |
The Sites | 203 |
Migrants from the Big Horn BasinBlack Hills Area | 216 |
PELICAN LAKE COMPLEX CA 3600 TO 2800 | 224 |
The Sites | 227 |
The Twilight Days of Bison Stalking | 235 |
OUTLOOK COMPLEX CA 2500 | 241 |
The sites | 242 |
The First Wave of Middle Missouri Invaders | 247 |
SANDY CREEK COMPLEX CA 2500 | 250 |
The Sites | 251 |
Besant Beginnings? | 254 |
BRACKEN PHASE CA 2800 TO 2100 | 256 |
The Sites | 257 |
Industrializing Bison Pounding and Mobilizing a Workforce | 275 |
BESANT PHASE CA 2100 TO 1500 | 282 |
The Sites | 286 |
A Renewed Perspective | 303 |
The Sites | 368 |
End of Avonlea Within the Beginnings of Old Womens | 373 |
OLD WOMENS PHASE CA 1100 TO 250 | 375 |
The Sites | 379 |
Archaeological Evidence for the Prehistoric Blackfoot Nitsitapii | 403 |
HIGHWOOD PHASE CA 500 TO 300 | 408 |
The Sites | 409 |
Shoshonean Snake Invaders in Southern Alberta | 413 |
LATE PREHISTORIC TO HISTORIC | 417 |
The Sites | 419 |
Continuity and Change | 433 |
ONE GUN PHASE CA 200 | 435 |
The Sites | 438 |
More Migrants from the Middle Missouri Area | 440 |
COMMENTARY | 443 |
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Common terms and phrases
Agate Basin Alberta point Archaeological Survey artifacts Avonlea points barbed base Besant phase Besant points bifaces bison bison kill Bitterroot bone bed BP Table BP was obtained Brumley burial Calgary campsite chert Clovis points Cody collagen component cores cultural dates were obtained debitage diagnostic DkPj Dyck Dyke EgPn end scrapers exhibit faunal assemblage Fedje fluted points Frison Gowen Gryba Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump hearth Hell Gap included bifaces Knife River flint lanceolate points Landals Layer lithic assemblage located Lusk Manitoba Mazama Ash Montana Morlan n.d. multicomponent Mummy Cave notches occupation Old Women's phase Oxbow phase Oxbow points Pelican Lake Pelican Lake points point was recovered points were recovered pottery produced projectile points quartzite Quigg radiocarbon date Reeves retouched flakes Ronaghan Sandy Creek Saskatchewan Scottsbluff Scottsbluff points side-notched points siltstone Sonota specimens stone circles suggested surface Survey of Alberta tools recovered included Vivian Wyoming