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- Broken Mammoth
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- Daisy Cave
- Dry Creek
- Dyuktai Cave
- Kilgii Gwaay
- McCallum Site
- Meadowcroft Rockshelter
- Mesa Site
- Monte Verde
- Namu
- On Your Knees Cave
- Pedra Furada
- Port Eliza Cave
- Richardson Island
- Sunshine Locality
- Topper
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- Vermilion Lakes
- Walker Road
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- Paisley Cave
Namu
Namu is situated on British Columbia's Central Coast, about 400 kilometers (250 miles) north of the northern tip of Vancouver Island.
The archaeological record at Namu reveals a sequence of almost continuous, seasonal use for nearly 10,000 years. A total of 41 radiocarbon dates spanning the period from 9,720 – 480 years BP have been obtained from the Namu site, making it the earliest radiocarbon dated site on the British Columbia coast.
Artifacts from the earliest occupation (10,000 – 9,000 BP) include 32 flaked stone tools such as bifacial points and knives, choppers and scrapers. A small number of ground and pecked stone tools were also present, but no microblades or bone tools were found. This assemblage appears to belong to the Pebble Tool Tradition, a cultural complex found at early sites on the Northwest Coast.
Further Reading:
Carlson, R.L.
1995 Early Namu. In Early Human Occupation in British Columbia, Roy L.
Carlson and Luke Dalla Bona (eds.). UBC Press, University of British Columbia. Pp. 83 - 102.
