Stamped across the shoreline of Calvert Island, B.C., are 13,000-year-old human footprints that archeologists believe to be the earliest found so far in North America. At the close of the last ice age, from 11,000 to 14,000 years ago, the sea level was 6 to 10 feet lower. The footprints were most likely left in an area that was just above the high tide line. McLaren and his colleagues stumbled upon the footprints while digging for sediments beneath Calvert Island’s beach sands. That would make them the oldest preserved human footprints in North America.

Source: thestar March 29, 2018 02:37 UTC