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Ancient Village Discovered in Canada That’s 10,000 Years Older Than Egyptian Pyramids

posted by hubie on Tuesday January 03, @08:16PM   Printer-friendly
from the age-is-only-how-you-feel dept.
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upstart writes:

Ancient Village Discovered in Canada That's 10,000 Years Older Than Egyptian Pyramids:

An ancients village dating back to before the Pyramids era was discovered by a team from Canadian Ph.D. students.

[...] This ancient village was discovered when researchers were searching Triquet Island, an island located about 300 miles north of Victoria, British Columbia.

The team found ancient fish hooks and spears, as well as tools for making fires.

However, they really hit the jackpot when they found an ancient cooking hearth, from which they were able to obtain flakes of charcoal burnt by prehistoric Canadians.

Using carbon dating on the charcoal flakes, the researchers were able to determine that the settlement dates back 14,000 years ago, making it significantly older than the pyramids of Ancient Egypt, which were built about 4,700 years ago.

[...] She and her team began investigating the area for ancient settlements after hearing the oral history of the indigenous Heiltsuk people, which told of a sliver of land that never froze during the last ice age.

[...] Researchers believe that this settlement indicates a mass human migration down the coast of British Columbia.

"What this is doing, is changing our idea of the way in which North America was first peopled, said Gauvreau."

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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by datapharmer on Tuesday January 03, @08:29PM

    by datapharmer (2702) on Tuesday January 03, @08:29PM (#1285033)

    Interesting, but seems to be a rehash of a 5 year old story: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/archeological-find-affirms-heiltsuk-nation-s-oral-history-1.4046088 [www.cbc.ca]

  • (Score: 1, Offtopic) by Snotnose on Tuesday January 03, @10:48PM (4 children)

    by Snotnose (1623) on Tuesday January 03, @10:48PM (#1285056)

    Where are the pyramids? Or were ancient Canadians too polite to force slaves to build stuff.

    You attacked us, eh? We applied our feet to your buttocks, agree? What if we give y'all a toque? Would that make us good? Those pyramids we want, they won't build themselves, eh. What if we give you some mickeys, we good, eh? Ahh, don't be a keener, be a give'er.

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    • (Score: 1, Troll) by Gaaark on Tuesday January 03, @11:14PM

      by Gaaark (41) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday January 03, @11:14PM (#1285057) Journal

      We burnt da White House, then we twerked it! Twerked it GOOD! :)

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    • (Score: 3, Informative) by Opyros on Wednesday January 04, @02:11AM (2 children)

      by Opyros (17611) on Wednesday January 04, @02:11AM (#1285071)

      Actually, the pyramids weren’t built by slaves. [badancient.com]

      • (Score: 4, Interesting) by khallow on Wednesday January 04, @05:27AM

        by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday January 04, @05:27AM (#1285085) Journal
        They were built by beer. True story. [smithsonianmag.com]

        As the beer boils during lunch break, McGovern sidles up to the brewery’s well-appointed bar and pours a tall, frosty Midas Touch for himself, spurning the Cokes nursed by the other brewers. He’s fond of citing the role of beer in ancient workplaces. “For the pyramids, each worker got a daily ration of four to five liters,” he says loudly, perhaps for Calagione’s benefit. “It was a source of nutrition, refreshment and reward for all the hard work. It was beer for pay. You would have had a rebellion on your hands if they’d run out. The pyramids might not have been built if there hadn’t been enough beer.”

      • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 04, @10:08AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 04, @10:08AM (#1285100)

        That article's evidence that the Egyptians didn't use slave labor seems as conclusive as "evidence" that Chinese factories didn't use child/slave labor... 😉

        Archaeologists have found such workers’ villages, including at Giza, where some of Egypt’s most famous pyramids can be found.

        You can find worker villages/dorms near some Chinese factories too. Does that prove no child/slave labor was used?

        And even if there's proof that many workers were paid, that doesn't prove that no child/slave labor was used.

  • (Score: 2, Troll) by KritonK on Wednesday January 04, @10:12AM

    by KritonK (465) on Wednesday January 04, @10:12AM (#1285101)

    The article title sounds certainly a lot more impressive than Yet Another Mesolithic [wikipedia.org] Village Discovered.

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