Charlie Lake Cave

Charlie Lake Cave, also known as Tse'KWa, is a small cave near Fort St. John in northeastern British Columbia whose greatest importance lies in the preserved deposits just outside its entrance. Archaeologists found artifacts about 11,000 years old there, including a fluted point, retouched flakes, and a bone bead, linking the site to the post-Ice Age movement of hunters and bison and to the early peopling of the northern plains and foothills. Two buried ravens, dated to as much as 10,500 years ago, are regarded as Canada's oldest known evidence of ritual activity, making the site a rare record of both survival and symbolic behavior in the distant past.

British Columbia · Canada