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Were seafarers living here 16,000 years ago?Site off Queen Charlottes could revolutionize our understanding of New World colonization Randy Boswell, CanWest News Service Published: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 In a Canadian archeological project that could revolutionize understanding of when and how humans first reached the New World, federal researchers in B.C. have begun probing an underwater site off the Queen Charlotte Islands for traces of a possible prehistoric camp on the shores of an ancient lake long since submerged by the Pacific Ocean. The landmark investigation, led by Parks Canada scientist Daryl Fedje, is seeking evidence to support a contentious...

RAWLINGS, Md. -- Robert D. Wall is too careful a scientist to say he's on the verge of a sensational discovery. But the soybean field where the Towson University anthropologist has been digging for more than a decade is yielding hints that someone camped there, on the banks of the Potomac River, as early as 14,000 B.C. If further digging and carbon dating confirm it, the field in Allegany County could be among the oldest and most important archaeological sites in the Americas.