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Plains Arrowhead

Plains Arrowhead

Tiny arrowheads like this one are found by the thousands at Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump, Alberta, indicating that even small, delicate points were used to kill massive bison.

Painted Thunderbird

Painted Thunderbird

This beautiful red ochre pictograph of a Thunderbird is located in a small rock shelter at Writing-on-Stone Park in southern Alberta. With a wingspan of over one metre, this painting is one of the largest single rock art images in western North America.

Cape Walker, Russell Island, Nunavut

Cape Walker, Russell Island, Nunavut

A Thule winter house on a gravel beach ridge at Cape Walker, Russell Island, Nunavut.

Benson site

Benson site

Excavated trenches outline longhouses at the Benson site, a 16th century Iroquoian village located in the Upper Trent River Valley of southern Ontario.

DjPn–62

DjPn–62

Excavations at the S.S. Burmis site in the Crowsnest Pass. This camp and kill site had multiple occupations spanning more than 4,000 years.

Farrell Creek site on the Peace River, B.C.

Farrell Creek site on the Peace River, B.C.

Simon Fraser University Field School excavating at the deeply stratified Farrell Creek site on the Peace River, British Columbia.

Inukshuk Cairn

Inukshuk Cairn

Lines of stone cairns, such as this one from Victoria Island, Nunavut, were built to drive caribou towards hunters waiting to kill them with spears and bows and arrows.

Pointes de flèches des plaines
Oiseau-Tonnerre peint
Cape Walker, Russell Island
Site Benson
DjPn–62
Farrell Creek site
Cairn Inukshuk

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