Scientists found sign of 14000-year-old settlement in Canada

A team of archeologists at the University of Victoria may be on the verge of discovering signs of ancient human life at the bottom of the ocean.

The underwater find appears to be an ancient fish weir — a man-made channel used to catch fish — near the southern tip of the Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve, off the B.C. coast.

UVic archeologist Quentin Mackie said sonar data appears to show images of stone fish weirs that could date back 14,000 years.

“It is a very emotional experience,” Mackie said in a release about the discovery. “To look at these images and think that what we might be looking at is evidence that people were living on this land and catching salmon before there was even a forest here, when it was still a grassland almost 14,000 years ago.”

Agencies/Canadajournal

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