@Book Reviews/Comptes-rendus {9101, title = {The Boss Hill Site (FdPe-4) Locality 2: Pre-Archaic Manifestations in the Parkland of Central Alberta, Canada}, volume = {7}, year = {1983}, pages = {247-249} } @article {9725, title = {Reply to Pettipas{\textquoteright} Comments}, journal = {Canadian Journal of Archaeology/Journal canadien d{\textquoteright}arch{\'e}ologie}, volume = {10}, year = {1986}, pages = {171-172} } @Book Reviews/Comptes-rendus {9295, title = {The Archaeology of the Wenesaga Rapids}, volume = {11}, year = {1987}, pages = {205-209} } @article {9724, title = {The Pendant Stones of Pasquatinow}, journal = {Canadian Journal of Archaeology/Journal canadien d{\textquoteright}arch{\'e}ologie}, volume = {28}, year = {2004}, pages = {353-365}, abstract = {

Seven trapezoidal stone pendants have been recovered from an exposed hearth at Pasquatinow, a traditional Aboriginal habitation location on the Saskatchewan River in east-central Saskatchewan. The suspension holes were produced with a metal bit, evidence that these pieces date to historic times. Such stone pendants are a unique occurrence in the archaeological record of central Saskatchewan, although a shell pendant has been recovered from a regional Selkirk site and metal pendants are present in fur trade posts dating to the late 1700s. Trapezoidal pendants of stone, bone, and shell have been recovered in late precontact and protocontact contexts on the Plains to the south of Pasquatinow. Historically, those made in Middle Missouri villages were of glass and functioned in the context of certain ritual observances. The Pasquatinow pendants may have played a part in a similar complex of spiritual beliefs.

} } @Book Reviews/Comptes-rendus {9294, title = {First Peoples in Canada}, volume = {29}, year = {2005}, pages = {137-140} } @article {11114, title = {6100 B.P. at the Below Forks Site (FhNg-25), Central Saskatchewan}, volume = {40}, year = {2016}, pages = {126-163}, abstract = {

The Below Forks site (FhNg-25) is situated on a point bar terrace in the Saskatchewan River valley. The deepest component, dated to 6100\ B.P., was focused on a hearth in association with thousands of pieces of debitage and faunal fragments. It produced a Gowen type point and a variety of stone tools, including grinding stones. Hide processing, core reduction and preform shaping were major activities, with most of the lithic materials procured from deposits of cobbles lining the river\’s edge.

The diverse biotic communities of the site area, as indicated by geoarchaeological studies, as well as the abundant lithics, produced a rich environmental \“patch\”. Immature bison remains suggest a spring or early summer occupation and it appears that the site occupants travelled here to replenish their toolstone depleted in the course of the winter. Below Forks was a locale occupied by the members of a well-established, successful regional society in the course of their seasonal movements through a large section of central Saskatchewan.

}, author = {David Meyer and Jenna S. Johnston and Steven C. Kasstan and Laura Roskowski-Nuttall} } @article {9723, title = {Through the Woods Whare Thare Ware Now Track Ways*: Kelsey, Henday and Trails in East Central Saskatchewan}, journal = {Canadian Journal of Archaeology/Journal canadien d{\textquoteright}arch{\'e}ologie}, volume = {31}, year = {2007}, pages = {163-197}, abstract = {

Henry Kelsey and Anthony Henday were Hudson\&$\#$39;s Bay Company employees who traveled through east-central Saskatchewan in 1690-1692 and 1754-1755, respectively, but their actual routes are uncertain. We have approached this problem by reconstructing the regional 18th-century Aboriginal sociopolitical groups and their travelways. With this information, and route descriptions and place names provided by Kelsey and Henday, we propose the most likely routes they traveled through the lands of the Basquia, Sturgeon, and Pegogamaw Crees. Within these lands, a network of trails and waterways led to hunting and gathering areas, to spiritually charged sites, and to seasonal meeting places. Trails also led between these nations and it appears that Kelsey was escorted along a major trail that connected the Basquia and Sturgeon while Henday was taken along one that led between the Basquia and Pegogamaw Crees. In east-central Saskatchewan, a number of prominent archaeological sites have been recorded on or near some of these ancient trails. The existence of such travelways and their relationships to ancient cultural landscapes should be considered carefully in the course of ongoing archaeological fieldwork in this region.

} } @Book Reviews/Comptes-rendus {9293, title = {The Uncovered Past: Roots of Northern Alberta Societies}, volume = {21}, year = {1997}, pages = {088-091} } @article {9727, title = {Late Woodland Pottery from the Goldsworthy Site: A Rainy River Assemblage in East Central Saskatchewan}, journal = {Canadian Journal of Archaeology/Journal canadien d{\textquoteright}arch{\'e}ologie}, volume = {22}, year = {1999}, pages = {043-080}, abstract = {

The Goldsworthy site, located in east central Saskatchewan, is associated with ancient fishing weirs on the Barrier River, an upper tributary of the Red Deer River. Most of this very large site is presently a cultivated field and, for several decades now, it has been subjected to surface collecting by both professional and avocational archaeologists, as well as souvenir hunters. The large artifact recoveries include some hundreds of potsherds, the bulk of which can be assigned to the Late Woodland period and the results of the study of this material are presented here. A small amount of this pottery is Blackduck, Selkirk and Mortlach; however, most of it (representing 38 vessels) has been identified as Duck Bay ware of the Rainy River composite, best known from Lakes Winnipegosis and Manitoba to the east. While the Duck Bay Stamp type is represented by only one vessel, the Duck Bay Notched, Duck Bay Decorated Lip and Duck Bay Undecorated vessels are well represented. Significantly, a subset of seven vessels has Selkirk traits - particularly decoration by a single punctate row on the outer rim or neck. Six of these vessels are identified as Rainy River-Selkirk syncretisms and are considered to reflect the strong presence of Selkirk along and about the Saskatchewan River valley to the north.

The Goldsworthy site is proposed as an ingathering centre at which the members of a regional band came together during the spring fishery. Based on the pottery, the members of this band are identified as the most westerly of those peoples who produced Rainy River composite material culture. Since this regional band occupied the Red Deer River basin, there was a direct water route to Lake Winnipegosis, and evidently this facilitated ongoing interaction with culturally related peoples there.

} } @article {9722, title = {A component in the Scottsbluff Tradition: Excavations at the Niska Site}, journal = {Canadian Journal of Archaeology/Journal canadien d{\textquoteright}arch{\'e}ologie}, volume = {9}, year = {1985}, pages = {001-037}, abstract = {

The Niska site (DkNu-3) is situated in southwestern Saskatchewan, about midway between the towns of Ponteix and Aneroid. Cultivation and subsequent wind erosion have resulted in the disturbance and exposure of a substantial Paleo-Indian component here. A number of artifacts, obviously related to the Cody complex, were collected here in the 1970\&$\#$39;s and early 1980\&$\#$39;s by a local avocational archaeologist, Henri Liboiron. These tools included two stemmed projectile points, four Cody knives, and numerous endscrapers (several with lateral spurs). Testing of this site area by Saskatchewan Research Council archaeologists in 1982 resulted in the identification of some remaining areas of intact Paleo-Indian occupation. Since these archaeological remains appear to be of considerable significance and as they were in danger of disturbance due to cultivation and wind erosion, a small-scale excavation was conducted here in May of 1983. Two ares of in situ Paleo-Indian occupational remains were exposed. These remains were positioned within a well-defined paleosol in an area of aeolian sand deposits. Three projectile point stems were found in the course of excavation as well as six endscrapers, a combination perforator/concave uniface and much debitage. Like the tools, the latter was of fine-grained siliceous materials, including brown chalcedony (Knife River Flint), porcellanite and jasper. Faunal remains were numerous, albeit fragmentary; the latter condition a result of deliberate breakage by the site occupants, followed by deterioration through time. Those remains which could be identified to species were all bison. One of the excavation blocks exposed much of a well defined habitation area, centred on a concentration of burned and calcined bone fragments which is interpreted as a hearth location. A knapping area was situated on the north side of this hearth while an endscraper, a point stem fragment and many raw bone fragments on the south side of the hearth provide evidence of other activities there. Flecks and larger bits of a red paint material were scattered across the habitation area. Raw bone from this excavation block has been dated to 7,165 B.P. while a paleosol sample has dated at 7,000 B.P. These dates are considered to be at least a millenium too recent. While the Niska site assemblage is obviously within the \&$\#$39;Scottsbluff Tradition\&$\#$39;, the style of its projectile points differentiates it from described complexes such as Cody and Little Gem. Questions remain, therefore, regarding the dating of this Paleo-Indian component and its cultural relationship to other complexes in the Scottsbluff Tradition.

} } @Book Reviews/Comptes-rendus {9292, title = {Alberta Plains Prehistory. A Review and Brink: Dog Days in Southern Alberta}, volume = {14}, year = {1990}, pages = {248-254} } @article {9726, title = {The River House Complex: Middle Woodland on the Northwestern Periphery}, journal = {Canadian Journal of Archaeology/Journal canadien d{\textquoteright}arch{\'e}ologie}, volume = {32}, year = {2008}, pages = {43-76}, abstract = {

Excavations at three sites in east central Saskatchewan have produced Middle Woodland assemblages that have been employed to describe the River House complex. Surface collections and smaller scale excavations in eastern Saskatchewan, as well as surface collections from the Swan River region of adjacent Manitoba, provide evidence that this complex is present in a broad region straddling the inter-provincial border. The associated pottery was sometimes decorated with punctates and/or bosses, or with complex motifs of cord-wrapped stick impressions. With this pottery are side-notched and triangular arrowheads, bifacial cutting tools, endscrapers and ground stone celts. The excavated faunal remains reflect occupation during open water seasons. Radiocarbon and thermoluminescence dates indicate a time range of ca. AD 800\–1200.

The closest cultural relationships of the River House complex are with late Laurel complexes in the forests of Manitoba, north\­western Ontario and adjacent Minnesota. However, there is also evidence for regular interaction with peoples of Avonlea culture.

} } @article {9721, title = {The Mudrick Site: Selkirk in the Saskatchewan Parklands}, journal = {Canadian Journal of Archaeology}, volume = {34}, year = {2010}, pages = {174-211}, abstract = {

The Mudrick site, located in the aspen parkland of north central Saskatchewan, was surface collected by Thomas Smith and Victor Vigrass in the 1950s and 1960s. They recovered hundreds of potsherds as well as arrowheads, end scrapers, biface knives and two ground stone celts. The majority of the 18 vessels represented by the potsherds are Winnipeg Fabric-impressed ware, characteristic of the Selkirk composite. Selkirk components are common in the northern forests but rare in the parklands of Saskatchewan. The southward move of forest-adapted people appears to have been facilitated by amicable social and political relations with parkland residents as indicated by the presence of some Wascana and Mortlach pottery as well as southern lithic materials in the Mudrick assemblage. This southward movement during Selkirk times (ca.\ A.D.\ 1300\–1700) appears to presage the expansion onto the Plains of forest peoples (Crees) in the subsequent fur trade period.

} }