A combination of archeology and geology used to revealed that people earliest inhabitants of Fort McMurray area dated back to at least 11,000 years ago, perhaps as long ago as 13,000 years ago
New research may have answered a long-standing mystery by pinning a rough date on the earliest known humans in Canada’s oilsands region.
Scientists have long known the region has a lengthy human history. An archeological site known the Quarry of the Ancestors has yielded millions of artifacts since it was discovered there in the 1990s.Standard methods such as radiocarbon dating are out. The area’s acidic soils destroy the organic materials those techniques depend on.
Infrared light causes those particles to release energy. That can then be measured to reveal when the host sand grains were buried, along with the stone tools buried beside them.“It has more uncertainty than radiocarbon dating, but it’s better than nothing,” Woywitka said. The date isn’t too long after humans first came to North America, which most archeologists believe happened about 16,000 years ago.
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