Archaeological Sites in Canada

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Bayer's Lake Mystery Walls

Wall · > 1500 AD

The Bayer's Lake Mystery Walls are stone ruins of unknown origin in Halifax, Nova Scotia, consisting of a small five-sided building outline and a 150-metre wall with ditches, both built from…

British Block Cairn

Necropolis/tombs complex · 1000 - 1500 AD

The British Block Cairn (Ed0p-1) is a pre-contact Indigenous site on the Suffield Block in Alberta, Canada[1]. Excavated in the summers of 1961 and 1962, the site dates to approximately 1400 CE[1].…

Majorville Cairn and Medicine Wheel

Necropolis/tombs complex · 4500 - 3000 BC

The Majorville Cairn and Medicine Wheel (Iniskim Umaapi) is a sacred site of the Blackfoot Nation located south of Bassano, Alberta. Dated to approximately 3200 BC through artifact stratification, it…

Peterborough Petroglyphs

Petroglyphs · 500 - 1000 AD

The Peterborough petroglyphs are the largest collection of ancient First Nations petroglyphs (rock carvings) in Ontario. The carvings were created in the pre-Columbian era and represents aspects of…

Petroglyph Provincial Park

Petroglyphs · 1000 - 1500 AD

Petroglyph Provincial Park, established in 1948 at the south end of Nanaimo, British Columbia, protects the largest known concentration of indigenous petroglyphs in Canada. The sandstone carvings,…

Rocks of Saskatchewan

Geological interest

The Mystery Rocks of Saskatchewan near the Cypress Hills is a strange place. Very little is known about these rocks. Located on private land, permission is required to access them.