Oldest known human footprints in North America discovered on Canadian island
13,000-year-old footprints discovered on BC's Calvert Island, 100 km north of Vancouver Island. Oldest ever found in North American. (Photo courtesy Duncan McLaren, University of Victoria anthropologist. Digitally enhanced version on right).pic.twitter.com/OO0yenLFJs
Prehistoric human footprints unearthed on Canada shoreline http://dlvr.it/QMhN05 pic.twitter.com/j8ZaenWq6s
Stamped across the shore of Calvert Island, British Columbia, are 13,000-year-old human footprints archaeologists believe to be the earliest found so far in North Americahttps://nyti.ms/2pOFLID
Archaeologists discover 29 13,000 year old footprints on Calvert Island, British Columbia. This impacts understanding of the colonisation of America, suggesting humans moved along glacier-free coastal areas: known refugia for plants & animals @PLOSONE https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/mar/28/footprints-sand-scientists-prehistoric-canada-british-columbia?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other …
At the tip of Vancouver Island, Calvert is only accessible by plane/boat, and now hosts a marine research station. (Fun aside, we have a painting in our living room of one of its gorgeous white sand coves.)https://twitter.com/CBCAlerts/status/979129540080492544 …
"About 13,000 years ago a little band of humans were pottering about on a shore in western Canada." There's nothing quite like footprints to make the millennia melt away...https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/mar/28/footprints-sand-scientists-prehistoric-canada-british-columbia …
Calvert Island keeps being amazing!https://twitter.com/hakaimagazine/status/979091543674900480 …