A date of 11,000 years was not what the charcoal test showed.
Debated. Stone tools and fire pits were found beside an old river.
The site is about five kilometres north of Prince Albert, in Saskatchewan, Canada, along the North Saskatchewan River. Charcoal from a hearth was dated to about 10,700 years ago, soon after the last ice age. People left stone tools, pieces from making tools, and fire pits. Bones of large bison were found as well. Researchers say people stayed and returned over thousands of years, not only for a short hunt.
People still argue whether these early groups were only travellers, and what that means for older ideas about first settlement.
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