Remote Sensing at the Buffalo Lake Métis Wintering Site (FdPe-1): Preliminary Results
Author(s): Aaron Coons; Kisha Supernant
Year: 2015
Summary
The Buffalo Lake Métis Wintering Site (FdPe-1), located in central Alberta, Canada, presents one of the most extensively studied examples of overwintering practices amongst the Fur Trade-era Métis. With historical records accounting for approximately four hundred cabins being present at the site in 1876, this site has the potential to have been the largest settlement west of the Red River at the time of its occupation. However, surficial evidence of these cabins is now scarce as a result of modern agricultural practices. Geophysical surveys were conducted at the site during the 2014 field season, with a focus upon magnetometry, conductivity and resistivity. The preliminary results of these surveys are presented, with the goal of determining more accurately any spatial patterning amongst the cabins and the total extent of the site.
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Remote Sensing at the Buffalo Lake Métis Wintering Site (FdPe-1): Preliminary Results. Aaron Coons, Kisha Supernant. Presented at The 80th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco, California. 2015 ( tDAR id: 397991)
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Keywords
General
Geophysical Survey
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Historical Archaeology
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Hivernant Métis
Geographic Keywords
North America-Canada
Spatial Coverage
min long: -142.471; min lat: 42.033 ; max long: -47.725; max lat: 74.402 ;