Tse’k’wa, or ’rock house’ in Dane-zaa/Beaver language, is a cave that has been home to the Dane-zaa ancestors for more than 12,500 years. Archaeological excavations at Tse’k’wa were undertaken by SFU in 1974, 1983, 1990, and 1991.
Tse'k'wa, or 'rock house' in Dane-zaa/Beaver language, is a cave that has been home to the Dane-zaa ancestors for more than 12,500 years. Archaeological excavations at Tse'k'wa were undertaken by SFU in 1974, 1983, 1990, and 1991. Fifty years of archaeological knowledge and scholarship from one of British Columbia's most significant cultural and archaeological sites is being digitally repatriated to the Dane-zaa people. Tse'k'wa, or "rock house" in Dane-zaa/Beaver language, is a cave that has been home to the Dane-zaa ancestors for more than 12,500 years. Archaeological excavations at Tse'k'wa were undertaken by Simon Fraser University in 1974, 1983, 1990, and 1991, led by SFU's Knut Fladmark and Jon Driver. The Tse'k'wa digital archive includes: primary records from the excavations such as field notes, research materials, maps and photographs; descriptive data sets made by researchers; and interpretive documents that use the data from excavations and post-excavation analyses. It aims to widen public and research access to materials related to the original SFU excavations at the site, located about eight kilometres west of Fort St. John.
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