An 11,000-year-old village in Canada is rewriting what we thought we knew about the first North Americans

By Daniel García – The Pulse

Walking a riverbank five kilometers north of Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, archaeologist Dave Rondeau noticed something odd: the soil was peeling back, and what it exposed didn’t belong to any recent century. Layers of history, he would later say, were staring back at him.

What Rondeau had stumbled onto during a routine survey of the North Saskatchewan River would quietly set off a reckoning — one that researchers say may force a fundamental rethink of who lived in North America, and how they lived, more than 11,000 years ago.