And the Legend of the Sweat Lodge
The Bedford Barrens Petroglyph.
Dear Editor:
Let me introduce you to the Mi’kmaq Eight Point Star Petroglyph discovered in Bedford. The petroglyph is dated before pre-contact and the colonial invasion.
Brian Molyneaux, a Research Associate in Archaeology at the Royal Ontario Museum, determined that the petroglyphs had been cut using stone tools which would suggest it was carved long before the arrival of the Europeans.
Thus, the petroglyphs predate any other known petroglyph site in Atlantic Canada.
Since its discovery t ...
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