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Oldest known human footprints in North America discovered on Canadian island

History This afternoon
13,000-year-old human footprints were discovered on Calvert Island, an island off the coast of British Columbia. Archaeologists believe they're the oldest footprints ever found on North American soil.
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· Mar 28

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).

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· Mar 28

Prehistoric human footprints unearthed on Canada shoreline

Prehistoric human footprints unearthed on Canada shoreline
Scientists find 29 prints on island in British Columbia, supporting theory that early Americans arrived from Asia
theguardian.com
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· Mar 28

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 America

Earliest Known Human Footprints in North America Found on Canadian Island
Scientists found the preserved footprints to be 13,000 years old, and suggested they shored up a hypothesis that early settlers of North America traveled along the Pacific coast.
nytimes.com
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· Mar 28

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

Prehistoric human footprints unearthed on Canada shoreline
Scientists find 29 prints on island in British Columbia, supporting theory that early Americans arrived from Asia
theguardian.com
6 replies 127 retweets 340 likes
· Mar 28

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.)

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).
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· 22 hours ago

"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...

Prehistoric human footprints unearthed on Canada shoreline
Scientists find 29 prints on island in British Columbia, supporting theory that early Americans arrived from Asia
theguardian.com
4 replies 82 retweets 322 likes
· Mar 28

Calvert Island keeps being amazing!

Earliest Known Human Footprints in North America Found on Canadian Island
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