Team finds 12,000 year old campsite in Canada
June 24, 2016
Team finds 12,000 year old campsite in Canada
by Susanna Pilny
A site uncovered during the construction of a highway bypass in New Brunswick, Canada has yielded hundreds of objects that are believed to be about 12,000 years old, according to Global News.
Discovered by an archaeologist nearly two years ago near the province’s capital, Fredericton, archaeologists have just recently been able to spend three weeks excavating the site, which appears to date from an extremely rare time period—meaning it stands to fill in some gaps in local history.
“This gives us our only glimpse into what people were doing during this time period,” explained New Brunswick’s Provincial Archaeologist Brent Suttie to CTV News Atlantic.
“From other areas in the province, we know that by about 13,000 years ago people are living here,” he added. “We have a few sites down in the Penfield area and then we have very famous sites like Debert in Nova Scotia that date to 11,600 years old. We don’t have anything in between those sites.”
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