A village in Canada that dates back to the Pyramids 10,000 years ago, is found by a doctoral student in archeology at the University of Victoria
For hundreds (and perhaps thousands) of generations, generations of the Heiltsuk nation - the indigenous group of British Columbia - recount oral histories of where they came from.
The nation claims that its ancestors fled to stay in a coastal area in Canada, which did not freeze during the Ice Age.
Kebeck was quoted as saying by the South Korean news agency KCK that new diggers on the island of Triquet on the coast of the British Central Coast support this claim now.
Archaeologist Archbishop Elisha Geoffrey, a doctoral student at the University of Victoria and a scientist at the Hakai Research Institute, led a team that dug the site in late 2016. They discovered many artifacts that seem to belong to an ancient village, including carved wooden tools, In a thin horizontal layer of soils, called palliosol.
The team then sent the charcoal chips to a carbon lab to find out their history, and found that the pieces date back to about 13,613 to 14,086 years ago, thousands of years before the construction of the pyramids of Egypt.
Antiques are some of the oldest found in North America. In 1977, Washington State University archaeologists dug the spear and the Mastodon rib bone (associated with extinct species of elephants) near the Washington Peninsula. After a CT scan in 2011, fossils estimated the nearest human habitation on the west coast to 800 years ago (about 13,800 years before today).
The latest discovery will help archaeologists understand more details about how to start more civilizations in North America, such as the civilization of the Heiltsuk nation.
There is a popular theory that the first Americans of American descent left Asia via a snow-free bridge and Alaska Mountain to what is now eastern and central Canada during the Ice Age.
Another theory, supported by research at the University of Victoria, is that they were fishermen of marine mammals and traveled by boat.
In the 2016 paper, Goffreau notes that oral history can also lend more legitimacy to archaeological excavations.
"This discovery is very important because it confirms a lot of the history that our people have been talking about for thousands of years," said William Huste, a member of the Hiltsuck nation, for CBS News.