Optical dating revealed that the three clam garden sites tested on northern Quadra Island were between 1,000 and 1,700 years old. Christina Neudorf, a post-doctoral researcher and Hakai scholar, and her colleagues from the University of the Fraser Valley and Simon Fraser University published these results in a new study in the journal PLOS ONE.
Was there a prehistoric superhighway used by ancient peoples to migrate south from North-east Russia to the Americas? And if so, where was it?
"For Dr. Olav Lian and his team of student researchers it’s all about the details.
Teeny, tiny, minuscule details — grains of sand in this case — that lead to big discoveries.
Lian is an earth scientist in…"
"Working with NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) is a dream for most scientists. And it’s something a group of UFV students were able to experience during a summer research trip to south central B.C. last summer.
The group spent two days at Kelly Lake (near Clinton) in..."