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Earliest Known Human Footprints in North America
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New find on Triquet Island
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Fires among tools of First Nations forestry
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13,000-year-old footprints
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Earliest Known Human Footprints in North America
UVic PhD candidate Alisha Gauvreau is one member of an archaeological team from UVic, the Hakai Institute and local First Nations that found an ancient village site on Triquet
Island, reaffirming Heiltsuk First Nation oral history of an ice-free place during the last Ice Age.
Two recently published research papers show how coastal forests benefited from First Nations habitation, and that fire-management was an important element of Indigenous
forestry.
Family gatherings around a fire pit—an ancient custom that’s still with us today—may have been practiced as long as 13,000 years ago along BC's central coast. Footprints from what
appear to be a man, woman and child circling a hearth were found last month below the tideline.