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11,000-year-old settlement in Canada could rewrite history of Indigenous civilizations in North America

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The newly uncovered village site of Âsowanânihk , which means "a place to cross" in the Cree language, is one of the oldest archaeological sites found on the continent.

Evidence already recovered from the site includes stone tools, firepits and bison bones.

It suggests that an organized society existed in central Canada far earlier than experts previously thought.

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