Creating a Millennial-Long Chronology in Northern Canada: Dendroarchaeological Dating of the Moose Horn Pass Caribou Fence (KjRx-1), Mackenzie Mountains, NT

• Published in: Forests
• Main Authors: Gary Beckhusen, Glenn Stuart, Leon Andrew, Glen MacKay, Thomas Andrews, Colin Laroque
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2022
• Subjects: dendroarchaeology; Mountain Caribou; Mackenzie Mountains; dendrochronology; Mountain Dene; white spruce; Northwest Territories; millennial-long; Canada; Corral; Mackenzie mountains
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/f13020221

The Moose Horn Pass Caribou Fence site (KjRx-1) consists of three wooden fences located in a remote area of the Mackenzie Mountains in Canada’s Northwest Territories. Situated in the traditional homeland of the Shúhtagot’ine (Mountain Dene), they were used to assist past hunters to harvest northern...