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The mass of ice from the continental ice sheets had depressed the rock beneath it over millennia. At the end of the last glacial period, while the rock was still depressed, the Saint Lawrence and Ottawa River valleys, as well as modern Lake Champlain, at that time Lake Vermont, were below sea level and flooded with rising worldwide sea levels, once the ice no longer prevented the ocean from ...
Canada: western Ontario & US: Minnesota (Gunflint Range) Stromatolite colonies of cyanobacteria: Hilda mega-bonebed [Note 3] Dinosaur Park Formation: Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) North America: Canada: Alberta: Dinosaurs: Joggins Fossil Cliffs: Carboniferous: North America: Canada: Nova Scotia [Note 1] John Day Fossil Beds National Monument: John ...
This is a list of Australian Aboriginal prehistoric sites. Key: BGS = Below ground surface; C14 = Radiocarbon date; char. = charcoal; OSL = Optical stimulated thermoluminescence; AA = Australian Archaeology
The prehistory of Australia is the period between the first human habitation of the Australian continent and the colonisation of Australia in 1788, which marks the start of consistent written documentation of Australia. This period has been variously estimated, with most evidence suggesting that it goes back between 50,000 and 65,000 years.
Lake Frontenac; 12,000 – 11,000 YBP [4] covering the Ontario basin and to the northeast up the St. Lawrence Valley covering the low lands north to the Ottawa River and Montreal. [ 1 ] Glacial Lake Iroquois ; 13,000 – 10,500 YBP [ 5 ] and covered all of the Ontario basin and southward across central New York, reaching to the Finger Lakes .
The "Jean-Baptiste Lainé" or Mantle Site in the town of Whitchurch–Stouffville, north-east of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, is the largest and most complex ancestral Wendat-Huron village to be excavated to date in the Lower Great Lakes region. [1]
Australian archaeology is a large sub-field in the discipline of archaeology.Archaeology in Australia takes four main forms: Aboriginal archaeology (the archaeology of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australia before and after European settlement), historical archaeology (the archaeology of Australia after European settlement), maritime archaeology and the archaeology of the ...
Fossils have been found in more than 200 individual locations. [4] The fossil record here is significant because it provides evidence on evolution and the distribution of species across Gondwana . The presence of Riversleigh fauna in the Oligo-Miocene has been classified by four "faunal zones", and used to denote the presence of fossil taxa in ...