Abstract

The Arrowstone Quarry Site is a large prehistoric site recently recorded in the Arrowstone Hills of south central British Columbia. The site is located in mountainous hills near the town of Cache Creek, northeast of Vancouver. This is an important find and represents interest on a number of different levels. Extending over several kilometres of hillside area, the site displays a variety of resource extraction activities and appears to have been utilized over significant periods of time. The Arrowstone Quarry Site is described and compared to other known quarry sites found throughout North America. Artifacts of similar raw material are known from many sites found throughout the interior regions of British Columbia. This is an important source that had been, for many years, well known, but ironically it remained somewhat of a mystery since its location and nature remained unknown.