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Old Women's Buffalo Jump
50.4806° N, -113.8937° E
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Old Women's Buffalo Jump is a historic site and former aboriginal buffalo jump near present-day Cayley, Alberta. It is known by the indigenous name Aakíípisskan.
Historical Timeline
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Possible earliest use
c. 1000 BCE
Secure early date
100 CE
Period of use
up to the late 1790s
Erosion revealed site
1952
First archaeological excavations
1958–1959
National Historic Site designation
1960
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