# About 2,000 years ago — interpretive walking view

Added 28 September 2026 at the owner's request. This is a source-informed educational visualization, not a verified reconstruction of a specific year, camp or archaeological site. Wanuskewin review is pending.

## Evidence used

[Wanuskewin's official landscape timeline](https://wanuskewin.com/our-story/land/) was checked on 28 September 2026. It places a technological transition involving bow-and-arrow and pottery around 2,000 BP and describes bison jumps/traps across a broad later interval. These summary entries support a general time setting. They do not establish one simultaneous event or an exact arrangement of dwellings, animals, people or objects.

BP is conventionally measured from 1950. The interface's “about 2,000 years ago” is an intentionally broad visitor label; it is not a conversion of a radiocarbon date into an exact calendar year. No precise CE/BCE year is asserted.

The earlier project research (`historical-pov.md`, `archaeology.md`) documents stoneworking, hearths, plant and animal remains across different occupations. Those layers are not silently assigned to this period. The new meshes are generic teaching objects, not scanned artifacts, excavated coordinates or replicas of particular finds.

A search surfaced a University of Saskatchewan Meewasin Creek thesis abstract focused on 2,500–2,000 BP, but its linked PDF returned HTTP 410 during this run. It was not used to assert detailed camp architecture or field coordinates. Additional period-specific source reading and park review remain necessary.

## What changes in the past setting

- Modern buildings and roads are hidden.
- Today's solid trail surfaces and labels are hidden.
- A removable dashed line provides a navigation aid along a modern mapped route.
- An illustrative work area, hearth-like stone rings, stone fragments, pottery-like fragments, grass tufts and a small bison group appear near the route.
- Optional shelter forms are visibly labelled conjectural and are off by default. Their construction, placement, number and dimensions are not archaeological conclusions.
- Bison movement is illustrative and can be paused; no hunt or bison jump is reenacted.

## What does not become historical evidence

The 2019 ground surface, modern water geometry and modern path alignment remain spatial references. Ancient ground levels, erosion, stream course, vegetation, climate/season, shelter form and arrangement are unresolved. No medicine-wheel reconstruction, ceremony, invented Indigenous narration, clothing, named Nation assignment or historical individual is included.

## Walking and coverage

Three named mapped trails are selectable. Each preview uses the longest continuous lidar-covered portion of that path. A range slider provides an explicitly labelled instant position change; step buttons move five model metres. Preview speeds above walking pace are labelled. The walkthrough follows the route centre line; it is not unconstrained first-person navigation or a live safe-route guide. Route lengths are derived from the local approximate map coordinates, not surveyed distances.

## Before production

Have Wanuskewin's nominated interpreters/archaeologists review period, scene content, source wording, shelter treatment, and location implications. Replace conjectures with approved material where evidence allows; keep uncertainty visible where it does not. No exact historical reconstruction or official endorsement should be claimed.