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A student found a Canadian village that’s 10,000 years older than the Pyramids

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I recently drew a map of pre-Columbian archaeological sites in the Americas for Wikimedia Commons, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Columbian_trans-oceanic_co... (hint: 13,000 years is not particularly old)

Interesting that the tip of South America is older than those near Alaska. How long would it take to migrate down the entire Americas? Though I assume the first migrations were at least 25k years ago.

The map is incomplete. Quoting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluefish_Caves

> Bluefish Caves is an archaeological site in Yukon, Canada ... from which a specimen of allegedly human-worked mammoth bone has been radiocarbon dated to 28,000 years before present (BP), earlier than the generally accepted age for habitation of the New World ... A review of the site in 2017 found it to be 24,000 years old,[6] lending support to the "Beringian standstill" hypothesis - that the ancestors of Native Americans spent considerable time isolated in a Beringian refuge during the Last Glacial Maximum before populating the Americas".

There's a theory South America was populated first by Polynesian people sailing rather than migrations from Alaska.

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http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:JudXjFz...

When this said student, I figured it was an 8 year old. Not a PhD candidate. While technically accurate it does tend to sensationalize it a bit.

A friend of mine used to work in the newspaper industry, and told me that (in New Zealand, anyway) "pupil" refers to high school or lower, and "student" refers to tertiary education.

Not sure if that applies elsewhere in the world, or even if it's still a thing in New Zealand.

This isn't a thing elsewhere?

As a kiwi. A pupil is just another name for student.

Definition: a person who is taught by another, especially a schoolchild or student in relation to a teacher.

It's just that in primary school you have a single teacher all year so the teacher refers to you as their pupil.

While in high school you have many teachers so you're one of their students.

But it's often interchanged.

More details at the "local news outlet CBC" (lol) http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/archeological...

"The nation claims that its ancestors fled for survival to a coastal area in Canada that never froze during the Ice Age."

I'm pretty sure the oral histories didn't mention the "ice age" (as in the most recent one ~13K years BP).

What I'm less sure about is that a living tribe are direct in situ descendants of the people who made these 13,000 year old archaeological remains. Nor do I see any evidence presented for that. Yes we know, people were in the new world earlier than 10,000 years ago. Nice to see it verified.

Does it prove the village is more than ten thousand years old? Or just that there was a village on the same site ten thousand years ago?

I don't mean this just in a nitpicking ship-of-Theseus sense, the village could have been nonexistent for very long stretches of time.

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