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Recent research suggests that North American Fishing is at Least 11 500 years old
By Vandy Bowyer December 7, 2015 - 1:05pm Comments (1)
Students taking the course Ancient Cultures of North American will find this of interest. This article is based on the recent research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Researchers in Alaska have found the earliest evidence for salmon as a food source in North America.
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Vandy,
Great article! While nowhere as old as the Alaskan site, the Narrows Site in Waterton Lakes National Park has lots of stone netsinkers in deposits that also yielded Lusk projectile points. The latter are not radiocarbon dated at The Narrows but they are found in Late Early Prehistoric Period contexts at Wyoming sites. It is good to see that the time depth is so early for fishing in the interior of North America.