Posted on 06/24/2016 10:51:32 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Archaeologists say a campsite unearthed just metres from a new highway in Fredericton could be more than 12,000 years old.
The campsite held 600 artifacts, most of which were from tool making, as well as a fire pit containing ancient charcoal...
Artifacts including stone tool fragments and arrowheads that would have been attached to rods to make spears have been found at the site. No ceremonial objects were found at the site.
The campsite is located just metres from the shoulder of a stretch of Route 8.
Suttie estimated the site to be between 11,600 and 12,200 years old.
The site appears to be located on what would have been a beach on a shoreline, which was determined by using predictive measures...
The lake would have been about 10 times the size of Grand Lake, which is the province's largest lake...
Suttie said the site and artifacts are "within 500 years of the oldest evidence we have of people being in the area."
Transportation Minister Bill Fraser visited the dig site and called the site "significant."
"This is very important to the people of New Brunswick," said Fraser. "And we will see that it is protected."
(Excerpt) Read more at cbc.ca ...
Around 600 artifacts have been uncovered at the dig site near Route 8. Most of them include fragments of stone that came from making stone tools. (Shane Fowler/CBC) [CBC News]
This is right where I live.
They must have had a lot of ####ing marshmellows!!!!!!
I bet they used those old style canvas pup tents way back then.
There were pretty inconsiderate leaving all that trash around. I bet they didn’t even put their poop in plastic baggies.
No TV, so I suppose when the sun set they just sat around the campfire and polished their tools.
Do you think they sang campfire songs? Chanted?
Stare into a fire long enough and you see things.
Did they find my jackknife?
I attribute the hard hats and orange vests tu creeping EU regulation that hopped across the Atlantic and embedded in Canadian and American safety regs
neither the vest nor the hard hat are required in the depicted circunstances
12,000 yr old campsite? No, hardly...more like 12,000 yr old
living area found....They weren’t “camping” they were existing....
pass the graham crackers please
Do you know, is there any evidence that links these peoples from 12,000 years ago to the present day “First Nation”?
Watch Odumbo will claim that the Muslims were here 12,000 years ago. hey, Odumbo 12,000 years Islam did not even exist, so take that and shove it.
man those aborgines (native Americans) really lived it up. They had an actual fire pit and used fire at a beach. Boy did they know how to live in Canada. Maybe the archeologists will find a preserved maple Leaf, preferably red in color so the Cannucks will have a historic memoroblia to immemorialize
Do you have any “historic memoroblia” from when you were trapped for days under all that rubble?
Theory Of Origins
"Although modern scholars no longer believe in the diffusion theory it was once thought that the Red Paint people traveled across the Northern Hemisphere from Europe to North America."
The diffusion theory was based on similarities between the Red Paint people's stone tool technology, houses, and ritualistic burial habits that included the use of red ocher. Red ocher is common in many geographic regions, and is commonly used in many prehistoric cultures. The stone technology and similar geometric designs of dots and lines that appear on the stone tools of both the North American Red Paint culture and on the tools of European prehistoric cultures could have developed independently of each other."
Hundreds of Bud Lite cans found.
Look at the distribution of R DNA among native Americans in the North East US and Canada it tells you something.
Yes Kiddies!
Eat your Wheaties and study hard.
Get yourself a couple of post graduate degrees
and you too can hang them on the wall
like immemoralizeable memoroblias!
YUP.
25% of the native population have haplogroup X.
Also
Africans and Europeans have a flaky ear wax while the Asians have a sticky variety. East coast US is flaky and the west coast is sticky. So....
Didn’t think those Styrofoam coolers lasted this long....
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