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Author : Beaudoin, A.B.
Date : 2005.
Title : Issues in the peopling of western Canada: When, where, and how.
Publication : Joint Meeting of the Geological Association of Canada, the Mineralogical Association of Canada, the Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists and the Canadian Society of Soil Sciences. May 15-18, 2005. Studley Campus of Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
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The issue of how, when and where people first occupied Canada is part of the larger question of the peopling of North America. It is a question on which there is not general agreement, though there are distinct schools of thought. It is also a question that continues to evoke strong controversy within the archaeological community and beyond. The reasons for this continuing debate arise from four main factors: the nature of the archaeological record, disagreement over what constitutes evidence of human occupation, the problem of chronology and dating methods in the Late Quaternary, and, from a more strictly geological perspective, the lack, despite more than fifty years of intense research, of a clear picture of the nature of Late Quaternary glacial and environmental history. The problems of evidence and context are paramount and are interlinked. These issues will be illustrated and discussed in relation to the record of human occupation in the interior western Canada
Bibliography of Canadian Geomorphology