Alisha Gauvreau
Stone Age classroom
The Ring
New find on Triquet Island
The Ring
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A group of 17 UVic anthropology students went back to the Stone Age working with bone, shell, obsidian, stone and wood to make hand tools and spear-like weapons that are thrown
with a spear thrower, known as the atlatl.
UVic PhD candidate Alisha Gauvreau is one member of an archaeological team from UVic, the Hakai Institute and local First Nations that found an ancient village site on Triquet
Island, reaffirming Heiltsuk First Nation oral history of an ice-free place during the last Ice Age.