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by Highlander is semi-retired from AB on December 4th, 2007

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What historical importance are the Bluefish Caves in the Canadian Yukon?

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  • by Takei-Shihan on December 4th, 2007

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    These are caves that have archaeological evidence of human migration from Siberia to North America. They found stuff like stone tools that date from about 40,000 years ago to about 12,000 years ago. It is what they used to "prove" that people walked to North America on what used to be a narrow land bridge over the Bering Straight.

    One of the big discoveries was when they found man made fishing tools next to horse bones ... horses were extinct in North America after the last ice age, and these artifacts and bones were found in an area of the caves that would have been a dry plains area before the glaciers of the last ice age covered it ... it was then submerged under water for a while while when the glaciers melted about 10,000 years ago and is now only just barely above sea level. These tools and horse bones match the same sort of things found in sites in Siberia.

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  • by Takei-Shihan on December 4th, 2007

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    For some reason, I can only read comments when there are more than one answer AND I can then click "Read all answers" ... and even then, I can only see the last three comments ... so in order to read the comments added to my other answer, I am posting this second answer ... let it sit here untill someone else adds an answer, then you may flag it for deletion.

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