Brief synthesisThe significance of the landscape of Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump lies in its historical, archaeological and scientific interest. Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump is located in southern Alberta, Canada, where the foothills of the Rocky Mountains meet the Great Plains. Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump is the most outstanding of the surviving bison jumps in the Americas in use from approximately 5,800 years BP until AD 1850. An increasing number of visitors at Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump has the potential to create pressures on the property. Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump is also included in Alberta’s Special Places 2000 program in order to afford it another safeguard through monitored use.