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A Carved Stone from D'Arcy, Saskatchewan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

Vladimar Alfred Vigfusson*
Affiliation:
University of Saskatchewan

Extract

In recent years, the attention of some archaeologists has been directed to the Canadian Northwest with the expectation of finding some evidence or indication of the early migrations of man on this continent. That man reached North America by Bering Strait from Asia, is generally accepted, but the theory that the migrations took place in late Pleistocene times and by way of an open corridor between the Keewatin ice and the Rockies, requires confirmation. It is significant that Folsom and Yuma points from Saskatchewan, described by E. B. Howard, were found mainly in areas bordering the ancient glacial Lake Regina.

As a further contribution to this problem, it seems desirable to present a brief description of a carved stone relic found in gravel in central Saskatchewan about three years ago.

The stone was found about seven miles southeast of the town of D'Arcy in a gravel pit located on Sec. 9, Tp. 28, Rge. 18, W. 3rd Meridian, on the north bank of a ravine running east into Bad Lake.

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Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1940

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References

503 American Antiquity, Vol. IV, 277–279 (1938).

504 Trans. Roy. Soc. Canada, 1930.