A process‐depositional model for the evaluation of archaeological potential and survey methods in a boreal forest setting, Northeastern Alberta, Canada

• Published in: Geoarchaeology
• Main Authors: Woywitka, Robin, Froese, Duane
• Other Authors: Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Canada Research Chairs
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2019
• Subjects: Canada; Glacial Lake; Subarctic
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/gea.21764; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2Fgea.21764; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/gea.21764; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1002/gea.21764

Abstract More than 1,000 archaeological sites occur within the Clearwater‐Athabasca Spillway, a relict channel that routed catastrophic drainage from glacial Lake Agassiz during deglaciation of northeastern Alberta. This high site density is rare in the region, and artifact assemblages are large due...