Crowsnest Pass Archaeological Project 1973 Salvage Excavations and Survey Paper No. 2 Preliminary Report

In 1972, Canada’s National Museum of Man (now, Canadian Museum of History) established the Mercury Series to publish scholarship related to the Museum’s divisions. In this volume (Archaeological Survey of Canada Paper No. 24), Brian “Barney” O. K. Reeves (founder of Lifeways of Canada) summarizes the findings of ten archaeological salvage and test site excavations conducted near Crowsnest Pass in southwestern Alberta in 1973. He describes the location, excavation, stratigraphy (geological and cultural layers), and artifacts of each site. Reeves concludes by noting the value of the excavations to archaeology in the region. Includes appendices and figures detailing the sites and the artifacts excavated. Archaeological Survey of Canada Paper No. 19 – also by Reeves – presents the findings of a series of excavations carried out in the same area in 1972.