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Old Women's Buffalo Jump

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Old Women's Buffalo Jump was remembered in 1952 after the base of the cliff was eroded by flash flood, revealing remains of a buffalo jump. The site was recognized as a National Historic Site of Canada in 1960 because of its importance as an example of a buffalo jump. Official designation of the site
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Old Women's Buffalo Jump is believed to have been in use as a buffalo jump for approximately 2000 years, up to the late 1790s. It was used repeatedly as a site for hunting buffalo by stampeding them over a cliff. Archeological remains at the site show a build up of evidence at least six metres deep
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that had previously been undisturbed, and that give evidence to use of the site at various times back to at least 100 CE, and possibly as early as 1000 BC. Many types of arrowheads were found, including Besant, Washita, Pekisko, Paskapoo and Nanton points. The site also includes pottery,
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The site of Old Women's Buffalo Jump is significant in Blackfoot legend as the origin location for the story of the first marriage between men and women, with the deity Nepi as a key figure.
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The first archeological excavation at Old Women's Buffalo Jump was conducted by Richard Forbis in 1958–1959, in conjunction with the
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A photo of Old Woman's Buffalo Jump, an aboriginal bison drive near Cayley, Alberta. It is a National Historic Site of Canada
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Cynthia M. Chambers and Narcisse J. Blood, "Love thy neighbour: repatriating precarious Blackfoot sites," from
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Walking Together: First Nations, Métis and Inuit Perspectives in Curriculum Connection to Land.
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https://www.learnalberta.ca/content/aswt/connection_to_land/documents/love_thy_neighbour.pdf
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includes 3.3 hectares around the jump, as well as the archeological remains at the site.
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at the base of the cliff. The jump itself consists of Paskapoo sandstone cliffs.
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near present-day Cayley, Alberta. It is known by the indigenous name
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Blackfoot

Cayley, Alberta
National Historic Site of Canada
Alberta Historic Resources Act
Old Women's Buffalo Jump is located in Alberta
buffalo jump
Glenbow Foundation
arrowheads





"Old Women's Buffalo Jump National Historic Site of Canada"
https://www.learnalberta.ca/content/aswt/connection_to_land/documents/love_thy_neighbour.pdf


"The Glenbow Museum > Archives Photographs Search Results"


"Alberta Register of Historic Places"
"Alberta Register of Historic Places"
"Artifacts - Unit B-0 levels 1-3, Old Women's Buffalo Jump, near Cayley, Alberta, The Glenbow Museum > Archives Photographs Search Results"
50°28′50″N 113°53′37″W / 50.4806°N 113.8937°W / 50.4806; -113.8937
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Archaeological sites in Alberta
National Historic Sites in Alberta
Blackfoot Confederacy
First Nations culture in Alberta

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