Some Prehistoric Sites in BC The Glenrose Cannery Site
>>>---->The Glenrose Site, Fraser River, British Columbia
Source: The Prehistory of the Northwest Coast, R.G. Matson and
Gary Coupland, Academic Press, San Diego, 1995. The Glenrose
Site is situated along the Fraser River, British Columbia, less
than 10 miles from the Pacific coast. The site is representative
of the Old Cordilleran Culture which dates to between 9,000 and
5,000 years ago in the Pacific Northwest of North America. The
majority of the finds at the site were stone tools. Nearly half
of the assemblage constisted of large cobble tools (choppers).
It is possible that these large cobble tools were used to
harvest mussels. Most of the remaining artifacts were flake
tools, such as scrapers, but a few leaf-shaped lanceolate biface
projectile points were recovered as well. A few ground stone
tools are represented, as well some antler and bone tools,
including a barbed antler point. Animal remains from the site
show thatelk was themost important hunt