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grncnu Member
Post Number: 386 Registered: 08-2010
| Posted on Sunday, July 12, 2015 - 1:37 am: |
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The thread in the other forum about pictographs reminded me of a question I always wanted to ask- has anyone ever found any more or less ancient artifacts in Temagami? I've found a few logging artifacts, cant hooks, files, and the usual old campsite "garbage"-pemmican tins, 100-year old shoes. (I always leave whatever it is where I found it). But has anyone ever found ancient First Nations artifacts? Has any archaeoligical digging taken place? I've never heard about anything like that. |
brian Moderator
Post Number: 1706 Registered: 02-2004
| Posted on Sunday, July 12, 2015 - 10:19 am: |
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There was an extremely primitive, all-copper knife found at Keewaydin Camp on Lake Temagami back in the 1980s. The archaeologists speculated that the copper may have come from the Coppermine River. There were gun barrels, and other artifacts found on the Stinking Islands by the first owner, but don't know what happened to them. Lots of digging has taken place on Lake Temagami, and a spot on Smoothwater. Archaeologists found lots of shards, arrowheads, scrapers, fire hearths., etc. |
plazatoro Member
Post Number: 3 Registered: 03-2005
| Posted on Saturday, July 18, 2015 - 3:01 pm: |
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see http://labs.eeb.utoronto.ca/mcandrews/PDFs/2013%20 Temagami%20paleohydrology%20-%20Copy.pdf |
plazatoro Member
Post Number: 4 Registered: 03-2005
| Posted on Saturday, July 18, 2015 - 5:37 pm: |
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Brian; not gun barrels, but an axe-head with a French colonial mark.. there were native (i.e. metallic) copper deposits known to and exploited by the original inhabitants on the east shore of Lake Superior and the north shore of Lake Huron and probably elsewhere in Ontario |
brian Moderator
Post Number: 1710 Registered: 02-2004
| Posted on Sunday, July 19, 2015 - 11:04 am: |
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I haven't seen this paper. Thanks for the link. However, it is not the finds at Stinking Islands I was referring to. |
grncnu Member Post Number: 388 Registered: 08-2010
| Posted on Wednesday, July 22, 2015 - 8:44 pm: |
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Plazatoro: Thanks! Fascinating stuff! |