Here comes another new UNESCO site, Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump, in Canada. The canadian UNESCO sites are not that easy to get, therefore i was more than happy when Kelly accepted to trade with me. That's my 8th site from Canadá, i still need 9 from there.
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FACTORY
Located 18 km north & west of Fort Macleod, Alberta, Canada at a location
where the foothills of the Rocky Mountains meet the Great Plains, one of the
world's oldest, largest, and best preserved buffalo jumps can be found.
Head-Smashed-In - a UNESCO World Heritage Site - has been used continuously by
aboriginal peoples of the plains nearly 6,000 years.
Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump is an archaeological site known around the world
as a remarkable testimony of the life of the Plains People through the
millennia. The Jump bears witness to a method of hunting practiced by native
people of the North American plains for nearly 6,000 years.
Due to their excellent understanding of the regional topography and bison
behaviour, native people hunted bison by stampeding them over a precipice. They
then carved up the carcasses and dragged the pieces to be butchered and
processed in the butchering camp set up on the flats beyond the cliffs.
In 1981, the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization
(UNESCO) designated Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump as a World Heritage Site. - in: http://history.alberta.ca/headsmashedin/
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