Author: Turrall Adcock MoorePublisher: Lethbridge, [Alta.] : Archaeological Society of Alberta
ISBN:
Category : Alberta
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Alberta Archaeology
Author: Turrall Adcock MoorePublisher: Lethbridge, [Alta.] : Archaeological Society of Alberta
ISBN:
Category : Alberta
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Canadiana
Author: Alberta’s Lower Athabasca Basin
Author: Brian M. RonaghanPublisher: Athabasca University Press
ISBN: 1926836901
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 565
Book Description
Over the past two decades, the oil sands region of northeastern Alberta has been the site of unprecedented levels of development. Alberta's Lower Athabasca Basin tells a fascinating story of how a catastrophic ice age flood left behind a unique landscape in the Lower Athabasca Basin, one that made deposits of bitumen available for surface mining. Less well known is the discovery that this flood also produced an environment that supported perhaps the most intensive use of boreal forest resources by prehistoric Native people yet recognized in Canada. Studies undertaken to meet the conservation requirements of the Alberta Historical Resources Act have yielded a rich and varied record of prehistoric habitation and activity in the oil sands area. Evidence from between 9,500 and 5,000 years ago—the result of several major excavations—has confirmed extensive human use of the region’s resources, while important contextual information provided by key geological and palaeoenvironmental studies has deepened our understanding of how the region’s early inhabitants interacted with the landscape. Touching on various elements of this rich environmental and archaeological record, the contributors to this volume use the evidence gained through research and compliance studies to offer new insights into human and natural history. They also examine the challenges of managing this irreplaceable heritage resource in the face of ongoing development. Contributors: Alwynne Beaudoin, Angela Younie, Brian O.K. Reeves, Duane Froese, Elizabeth Roberston, Eugene Gryba, Gloria Fedirchuk, Grant Clarke, John W. Ives, Janet Blakey, Jennifer Tischer, Jim Burns, Laura Roskowski, Luc Bouchet, Murray Lobb, Nancy Saxberg, Raymond LeBlanc, Robert R. Young, Robin Woywitka, Thomas V. Lowell, and Timothy Fisher
Nature, Place, and Story
Author: Claire Elizabeth CampbellPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773551778
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
National historic sites commemorate decisive moments in the making of Canada. But seen through an environmental lens, these sites become artifacts of a bigger story: the occupation and transformation of nature into nation. In an age of pressing discussions about environmental sustainability, there is a growing need to know more about the history of our relationship with the natural world and what lessons these places of public history, regional identity, and national narrative can teach us. Nature, Place, and Story provides new interpretations for five of Canada’s largest and most iconic historic sites (two of which are UNESCO World Heritage Sites): L’Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland; Grand Pré, Nova Scotia; Fort William, Ontario; the Forks of the Red River, Manitoba; and the Bar U Ranch, Alberta. At each location, Claire Campbell rewrites public history as environmental history, revealing the country’s debt to the power and fragility of the natural world, and the relevance of the past to understanding climate change, agricultural sustainability, wilderness protection, urban reclamation, and fossil fuel extraction. From the medieval Atlantic to modern ranchlands, environmental history speaks directly to contemporary questions about the health of Canada’s habitat. Bringing together public and environmental history in an entirely new way, Nature, Place, and Story is a lively and ambitious call for a fresh perspective on natural heritage.
Protecting the Past
Author: George S. SmithPublisher: Springer
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Visual Culture, Heritage and Identity: Using Rock Art to Reconnect Past and Present
Author: Andrzej RozwadowskiPublisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1789698472
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
This book presents a fresh perspective on rock art by considering how ancient images function in the present. It focuses on how ancient heritage is recognized and reified in the modern world, and how rock art stimulates contemporary processes of cultural identity-making.
Light from Ancient Campfires
Author: Trevor Richard PeckPublisher: Athabasca University Press
ISBN: 1897425961
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
"the first book in twenty years to gather together a comprehensive prehistoric record --
Natural Resources Information Directory 1985
Author: David W. PerrinPublisher:
ISBN: 9780864991218
Category : Natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
The purpose of the Natural Resources Information Directory is toprovide individuals and organizations dealing with naturalresource and land-related information with a means of determiningwhat Alberta information is available and from whom. Entrieshave been arranged alphabetically within six general informationcategories: Information Guide, Legislative Statutes, Maps, Reports and Bibliographies, Resource Files and Data Bases, Bibliographies, Indexes, Directories and Catalogues.
Directions in Archaeology
Author: University of Calgary. Archaeological Association. ConferencePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Author: