Bones, tools unearthed by Alberta flood could fill gaps in First Nations history
ROCKYVIEW, Alta. — Archeologists are hoping bones and tools unearthed after the 2013 southern Alberta floods will help paint a better picture of a little understood period in the region’s indigenous history.
The Alberta government is wrapping up a three-year program to preserve artifacts left exposed in flood-damaged river valleys.
Researchers are particularly interested in clues that could help shed some light on the time between Europeans reaching North America and their contact with indigenous people in the West.
“This site has great potential to make a substantial contribution to what we know about a time period of great change for First Nations people in Alberta,” said Daniel Meyer, an archeologist with Lifeways of Canada, a firm hired by the Alberta government to do the excavations.