to
Canada's
Northwest Territories
The Canadian
Museum of Civilization invites you to retrace the footsteps of
some of its archaeologists as they uncovered new chapters in the long and
fascinating history of the Northwest Territories. Learn about a vast
untouched part of our world, about its people and their history.
Canada's Northwest Territories sit at the top of
the North American continent. People have lived there for thousands of
years. This vast area is dotted with but a few small communities. The
land is still unspoiled. Its immense beauty lies in its vastness and
its harshness.
Between 1985 and 1994, the
Canadian Museum of Civilization carried out an
archaeological research programme (
NOGAP) in the
northwestern part (in the black circle) of the continental N.W.T. in order
to find out more about the history of this region.
The Museum
now opens its files and lets you follow the progress of its
archaeologists as they returned from the field and wrote their reports.
You can access these documents as well as the multitude of images and
information they brought back.
You can also follow the work
at certain sites which were revisited over the years and see how the
archaeologists changed their thinking about them based on new
discoveries.
And what sense did they finally make of these
discoveries? Well, a number of articles bring the field data together
and offer interpretations which both enlighten and challenge.
Now
that you have access to their information, can you come up with
different interpretations?
Lunchtime during work at Hyndman Lake, N.W.T. in
1990
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