Footprints found on B.C.'s Calvert Island could be oldest in North America

Footprints found on B.C.'s Calvert Island could be oldest in North America

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/footprints-found-on-b-c-s-calvert-island-could-be-oldest-in-north-america-1.3123779

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The footprints of family members gathered around a hearth fire thousands of years ago on the central coast of B.C. may be the oldest ever found in North America.

The impressions left by the feet of two adults and a child in the soft clay of Calvert Island appear to be 13,200 years old, which would make them older than any others ever found on the continent, announced the Hakai Institute, a research organization that helped support the research.


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"We weren't actually too certain what we found, but we took some photographs, also took some samples of the sediment from within the footprint," he said.

Radiocarbon dating of two samples of material from the footprint showed it was 13,100 to 13,200 years old — older than any other evidence of humans in coastal B.C.

"We were very excited," McLaren recalled in another interview with CBC News. "To tell you the truth, we were a little bit surprised that we got such early dates."



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