Posted on 04/10/2017 11:39:18 AM PDT by C19fan
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.
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14,000 years old? How do they know? Post mark on some mail?
Just when they thought they knew everything.
Nope, it was the last page pulled in the desktop calendar.
14,000 years old? How do they know?
Copy of Hillary!’s birth certificate found!
Island is named after a Canadian war hero: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Triquet
Where’s the McDonald’s, or maybe a Hooters?
All this walking in the hot Egyptian sun has got me tired and hungry.
"Archaeologists were able to date the site using a few tiny charcoal flakes they were able to isolate from a hearth-like feature they uncovered in a thin horizontal layer of soil called a paleosol, after digging down through layers of peat and soil."
Hmmm. Maybe we need a consensus about this. LOL!
Hmmm. Maybe we need a consensus about this. LOL!
Maybe the wooden tool shown in the picture was a toothpick for the mammoths.
The date was found written inside Ken Ham’s Ark.
In my town they discovered 10,000 year-old tools, the oldest in western Washington state. Pretty cool - although if I saw one on the ground I would just call it a “rock”!
Pretty neat though to go walking at the site and along the creek, and think about what was going on 10,000 years ago. While the vegetation has probably changed a bit, the land forms are all the same. 120 years ago it was large “old growth” fir trees, now it is farmland that has been left to go “wild”. With the lack of trees and more open terrain, it might be closer to how it looked 10,000 years ago than with the big trees!?
14,000 years old? How do they know? Post mark on some mail?
Carbon dating of wooden implements and Mastodon tusk, and the material of the layers they have been found in.
This is backed up by sedimentary layers and tree ring studies that go back to 13,900 years. The wood from tree rings is used to calibrate the carbon 14 dating.
The potential errors are likely a couple of hundred years, but depend on sample size and the precise methods used.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiocarbon_dating
They found a piece of pottery that was stamped “12,000 BC”.
Helen Thomas talked about it in her memoirs.
Mostly it makes me wonder even more about the failure of the Indians to move up on the civilizational ladder.
It was in a book written 6,000 years ago.
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