Preglacial archaeological evidence at Grimshaw, the Peace River area, Alberta
An assemblage of quartzite cobbles with attributes of cultural flaking and utilization has been recorded at the base of a Laurentide till at the contact with underlying fluvial gravels in a section face of a gravel pit near Grimshaw in the course of Quaternary geology mapping of the Peace River area...
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crcansciencepubl:10.1139/e98-023 2023-12-17T10:31:09+01:00 Preglacial archaeological evidence at Grimshaw, the Peace River area, Alberta Chlachula, Jiri Leslie, Louise 1998 http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e98-023 http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/e98-023 en eng Canadian Science Publishing http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/page/about/CorporateTextAndDataMining Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences volume 35, issue 8, page 871-884 ISSN 0008-4077 1480-3313 General Earth and Planetary Sciences journal-article 1998 crcansciencepubl https://doi.org/10.1139/e98-023 2023-11-19T13:38:59Z An assemblage of quartzite cobbles with attributes of cultural flaking and utilization has been recorded at the base of a Laurentide till at the contact with underlying fluvial gravels in a section face of a gravel pit near Grimshaw in the course of Quaternary geology mapping of the Peace River area. The geological context, with secondarily redeposited stone artifacts, documents distortion of an early prehistoric site located in a nonglacial riverine setting by the expanding Late Wisconsinan continental ice from the north. The lithic assemblage provides further evidence for an earlier (pre-last glacial) occupation of North America, predating the earliest postglacial (<11 500 BP) Palaeoindian cultures, traditionally regarded as the hallmark of peopling of the New World. Article in Journal/Newspaper Grimshaw Canadian Science Publishing (via Crossref) Grimshaw ENVELOPE(-117.603,-117.603,56.183,56.183) Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 35 8 871 884 |
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An assemblage of quartzite cobbles with attributes of cultural flaking and utilization has been recorded at the base of a Laurentide till at the contact with underlying fluvial gravels in a section face of a gravel pit near Grimshaw in the course of Quaternary geology mapping of the Peace River area. The geological context, with secondarily redeposited stone artifacts, documents distortion of an early prehistoric site located in a nonglacial riverine setting by the expanding Late Wisconsinan continental ice from the north. The lithic assemblage provides further evidence for an earlier (pre-last glacial) occupation of North America, predating the earliest postglacial (<11 500 BP) Palaeoindian cultures, traditionally regarded as the hallmark of peopling of the New World. |
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Preglacial archaeological evidence at Grimshaw, the Peace River area, Alberta |
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