Construction Worker Digs Up Mind-Blowing Key to the Prehistoric Era

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In terms of international impact, this discovery was still something to be marveled at. For context, it meant that they had found something that was older than both the Great Pyramid of Giza and the invention of the wheel!It was a truly remarkable discovery, but what was truly unprecedented was what it revealed about the Heiltsuk people and their claims over the land...

No Glacier

First of all, it negated the theory that the entire continent was once covered by a glacier. The 14,000-year-old carbon charcoal noted that the earliest Heiltsuk at Triquet Island was over 2,000 years before the end of the supposedly influential Ice Age. If they survived that, then it didn't cover as much land as the scientists once believed...

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The More You Know

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