Remote Sensing at the Buffalo Lake Métis Wintering Site (FdPe-1): Follow-Up Results
Author(s): Aaron Coons; Kisha Supernant; Terry Gibson
Year: 2016
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 and 2015 field seasons, with a focus upon magnetometry and ground-penetrating radar. The results of these surveys as well as their follow-up test excavations are presented, with a focus upon the spatial distribution of the features and their contents.
Cite this Record
Remote Sensing at the Buffalo Lake Métis Wintering Site (FdPe-1): Follow-Up Results. Aaron Coons, Kisha Supernant, Terry Gibson. Presented at The 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Orlando, Florida. 2016 ( tDAR id: 404589)
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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 ;