Triquet Island
| Triquet Island | ||
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| Waters | Pacific Ocean | |
| Archipelago | Breadner Group | |
| Geographical location | 51 ° 48 ′ N , 128 ° 15 ′ W | |
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| length | 1.8 km | |
| width | 1.6 km | |
| surface | 1.44 km² | |
Triquet Island is a 1.4 km² small island in British Columbia in the Central Coast Regional District . Like most of the islands in the northern coastal area of the province, it is counted as part of the Great Bear Rainforest .
In November 2016, 14,000-year-old human settlement traces were found there and tools for making fire, fish hooks and spears were unearthed. In addition to the importance of the reassessment of human settlement in the Americas published in April 2017, according to the elders of the Heiltsuk Nation , the site is so significant because it corresponds to an orally handed down story according to which this settlement site on the coast was chosen because it Wasn't frozen during the Ice Age.
Web links
- Coastal Canadian Site Dates to 14,000 Years Ago on Archeology Magazine , accessed April 14, 2017
- 14,000-year-old village unearthed on BC island by UVic student by Scott Cunningham on ctvnews.ca, accessed April 14, 2017
- Archeological find affirms Heiltsuk Nation's oral history from Roshini Nair, CBC News, accessed April 14, 2017
- Triquet Island . In: BC Geographical Names (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Alisha Gauvreau, Duncan McLaren: Stratigraphy and storytelling . In: Hunter Gatherer Research . tape 2 , no. 3 , December 1, 2016, p. 303-325 ( liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk [accessed April 18, 2017]).