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Earliest Known Human Footprints in North America
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Earliest Known Human Footprints in North America
A groundbreaking discovery by UVic paleoanthropologist April Nowell has provided the first direct evidence of exploitation by our Stone Age ancestors of specific animals for
subsistence.
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.