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Author : Driver, J.C.
Date : 1998
Title : Human adaptation at the Pleistocene/Holocene boundary in Western Canada, 11,000 to 9,000 BP.
Publication : Quaternary International
Issue : 49-50:
Page(s) : 141-150.



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Abstract

Most of western Canada was covered by ice until about 12,000 BP. Environments suitable for human habitation were established by about 11,500 BP. The earliest known human occupations date to about 10,700 BP. Para-glacial processes may have destroyed most early sites. Post-glacial colonization occurred from the south. Only 14 archaeological sites contain radiocarbon dates earlier than 9000 BP. The limited data from these sites suggest initial exploitation of big game in open environments until about 10,000 BP. Sites dating between 10,000 and 9000 BP are known mainly from the southern interior plains, and document a continuation of bison hunting. Adaptive strategies in early boreal forests are still unknown.

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