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Beaver River sandstone is a rock material locally found in northern Alberta, Canada, that was extensively used by First Nations
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Beaver River sandstone is a rock material locally found in northern Alberta, Canada, that was extensively used by First Nations
First Nations

First Nations is a term of ethnicity that refers to the Aboriginal peoples in Canada who are neither Inuit nor M?tis people....
 people in prehistoric times to make tools with a sharp edge.

Many projectile point
Projectile point

In archaeology, a projectile point is an object that was hafting and used either as knife or projectile tip or both, commonly called an arrowhead....
s and other tools made from the Beaver River sandstone have been found at archaeological site
Archaeological site

An archaeological site is a place in which evidence of past activity is preserved , and which has been, or may be, investigated using the discipline of archaeology and represents a part of the archaeological record...
s in the Oil Sands region of Alberta. The source of this material has been identified as a site on the east side of the Muskeg River where native peoples quarried
Quarry

A quarry is a type of open-pit mining from which rock or minerals are extracted. Quarries are generally used for extracting building materials, such as dimension stone....
 rock for use in making tools.