Revealed: 14,000-year-old village ‘older than Egyptian pyramids’ sheds light on how civilisation began in North America
Village was found on Triquet Island 310 miles (500km) northwest of Victoria
Artefacts unearthed include tools for creating fires and fishing hooks
Backs up theory that people arrived on the coast to North America, rather than a land corridor through the Rocky Mountains as many had believed
By TIM COLLINS
DailyMail.com
10 April 2017
One of the oldest human settlements ever found in North America has been uncovered in British Columbia.
The 14,000-year-old village was found on Triquet Island 310 miles (500km) northwest of Victoria, Canada.
The discovery is three times older than Egypt’s pyramids.
Artefacts unearthed include tools for creating fires and fishing hooks and spears dating from the Ice Age.
The discovery could shed more light on how civilisation began in North America, CTV Vancouver Island News reports.
Alisha Gauvreau, an anthropology PhD student at the University of Victoria and a researcher at the Hakai Institute, helped make the discovery.
She said: ‘I remember when we get the dates back and we just kind of sat there going, holy moly, this is old.
‘What this is doing is just changing our idea of the way in which North America was first peopled.’
The main theory is that the first people to live in America traversed a long-vanished land bridge that once linked Siberia and Alaska over the Bering Strait.
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