Alberta's Lower Athabasca Basin: Archaeology and Palaeoenvironments

• Main Author: edited by Brian M. Ronaghan (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Athabasca University Press 2017
• Series: Recovering the Past: Studies in Archaeology
• Subjects: Archaeology; oil sands; Suncor; EIA; tar sands; beaver river sandstone; Syncrude
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Over the past two decades, the oil sands region of northeastern Alberta has been the site of unprecedented levels of development. Alberta's Lower Athabasca Basin tells a fascinating story of how a catastrophic ice age flood left behind a unique landscape in the Lower Athabasca Basin, one that m...