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Archeological work for Birch Mountain makes major discovery
As a result of resource development, over 30 years of archeological studies have been conducted in Athabasca Lowlands including Cree Burn Lake. Many archeological sites, some of which are 7000 to 9,800 years old have been discovered. In 2003, a survey for Birch Mountain Resources found the source for the regions stone tools in a massive site containing thousands of artifacts. This site called the “Quarry of the Ancestors” has a glassy rock now referred to as Muskeg River Microquartzite, that was highly prized by ancient hunters for making stone tools. This site has been protected and will be unaffected by our project.
10,000 Years Ago
The Athabasca Lowlands of northern Alberta contain some of the highest density pre-contact archeological sites in North America. Long before the Egyptians were building pyramids the people of the Athabasca were hunting, traveling by boat and trading goods from the Arctic to the Pacific and south into the central US. They built boats, complex micro stone tools and hunted mammoth.
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