Indigenous artifacts found at the construction site of a contentious pipeline project were likely not in their original location, says British Columbia's energy regulator.
The Unist'ot'en clan, a hereditary house group of the Wet'suwet'en First Nation, complained last month that supporters recovered two ancient stone tools and observed other artifacts at the site where Coastal GasLink is building a natural gas pipeline.
"The soils upon which the artifacts were found would not typically contain any such cultural artifacts and this was likely not their original location," the commission said.The two stone tools that were originally reported discovered were not present at the site, the information bulletin said. Archaeologists found four artifacts in total -- one complete biface tool and three biface fragments -- but could not make a cultural association, it said.
The Unist'ot'en clan said Monday the artifacts were recovered from a site that "had been heavily disturbed" by Coastal GasLink bulldozers. The company said the province has added the site to its archeological database based on the presence of artifacts at the spot.
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