An ancient village believed to be one of the oldest human settlements ever found in North America has been discovered during an excavation on a remote island in British Columbia.

The village, which is estimated to be 14,000 years old, has been found on a rocky spit on Triquet Island, about 500 kilometres northwest of Victoria, Canada.

Alisha Gauvreau, an anthropology PhD student at the University of Victoria and a researcher at the Hakai Institute, which supports the archaeological team, took part in the excavation work.

She told the Canadian television network: “I remember when we get the dates back and we just kind of sat there going, holy moly, this is old. What this is doing is just changing our idea of the way in which North America was first peopled.”

Experts believe a large human migration may have occurred on British Columbia’s coastline.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/14000-village-discovered-triquet-island-british-columbia-canada-oldest-settlment-north-america-a7673726.html

Do all these discoveries get put on a database and traced back to Africa?

Would it look like a fractal?

Tau.Neutrino said:

Do all these discoveries get put on a database and traced back to Africa?

I dunno … I mean you could do it if you wanted to.

Would it look like a fractal?

Only if you forced it to. Civilisation is not scale-independent.

Fragmented information cannot show the complete picture.

A bit frustrating.

but, interesting discovery.

dv said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

Do all these discoveries get put on a database and traced back to Africa?

I dunno … I mean you could do it if you wanted to.

Would it look like a fractal?

Only if you forced it to. Civilisation is not scale-independent.

Yes. 14,000 years puts it right at the start of the “Clovis” period. The following is a map of tentative pre-Clovis migrations.

This map is called “genetic trails”.

This map shows locations where Clovis people were.