Feb 9, 2025
The site near Prince Albert, Sask., suggests Indigenous people lived in the region about 1,000 years earlier than previously thought.
The findings match oral histories that elders in the area told researchers, said University of Saskatchewan professor Glenn Stuart, one of the researchers invited to work at the site last summer. Researchers believe people started living at the site shortly after glaciers receded about 10,000 years ago. "When you hear somebody talking about these huge floods that happened many, many years ago, then that makes us think that, OK, well, maybe there is a connection here because we could see from looking at this hearth that as soon as there was a stable landscape here, people were living there," Stuart said.
