CA-K308Indigenous peoples & reconciliation

Old Women’s Buffalo Jump

Old Women’s Buffalo Jump near Cayley, Alberta, photographed in 2009. Old Woman's Buffalo Jump · Grapher78 · Photo source · Photo licence: CC BY 3.0. Resized for display; item previews may be cropped. The image remains under the licence shown.

Factual accuracy review: No recorded challenge

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Old Women’s Buffalo Jump, in the Alberta foothills near Cayley, was used continuously for roughly 2,000 years, leaving archaeological deposits more than six metres deep at the base of its sandstone cliff. It was the site of the first major excavation of a buffalo jump on the Canadian Prairies.

Scope & context

The site and its archaeology, not buffalo jumps in general (see CA-K117).

Sources behind this record

Old Women's Buffalo Jump National Historic Site ↗

Parks Canada

Description of historic place; Heritage value