[Honcho Bongs]

I agree there isn't much information in this story, but it wouldn't surprise me if the Mi'kmaq's decendants use the same sort of tools today. Here's a link to a short article on the Mi'kmaq that shows one of the barbed harpoons. Look at the illustration of the spear under the heading "food" - looks unique to me. Maybe they were the same back then.

My question would be how they have dated these objects. Are they the same as previous finds that they have dated by their position in soil strata or have they done some sort of carbon dating to establish their age?

They've probably been taking salmon and eels in that area for thousands of years. I doubt it would have changed that much over that geologically "short" time.

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

Thank you for the link…I certainly stand corrected. I will try to be more patient and more careful in my comments next time.

Yes, dating objects has also been a problem with me. That and assigning a lot of things to “religious” beliefs without conclusive evidence. But then again, please correct me if I’m out of line.

[momf]

Thank you for posting the link to the article. It is very interesting.

The harpoon reminds me of one for frog gigging we used back 50 - 55 years ago.