Archeological site discovered near Prince Albert

A big dig of a different sort has begun near Prince Albert.

A group of students from the Integrated Resource Management program (IRM) at Prince Albert’s Saskatchewan Polytechnic campus are currently working in cooperation with archeologists from Saskatchewan’s Archaeological Society (SAS), after discovering some very old mammal bones.

While working on a separate school project together, classmates Timothy Franc and Kale Klassen found a large number of ancient bison, giant elk and other unidentified bones in a creek near the Fenton Ferry, which they hope might hold some archeological value.

“So far, we have found a variety of different mammal bones,” said Franc. “We found a bison skull, we found many remains of bison, we found an unidentified vertebra of a smaller species of mammal and we have a jawbone of what we believe to be a coyote.”