Archaeologist digs up long lost village

15 août 2011
by Marc Montgomery
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Find out about prehistoric Canada from an archaeologist who’s discovered remnants of what could be a 10-thousand-year-old village in the Pacific coast province of British Columbia. Farid Rahemtulla is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Northern British Columbia who thinks he’s found the site of the long lost village of Luxvbalis on Calvert Island about 100 kilometres north of Vancouver.


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With a passion for anything antique with an engine, and for Canadian and world history, Marc comes with a wealth of media experience. After DJ work at private radio in southern Ontario, and with experience in Canadian Forces radio and tv in Europe, the state broadcaster in Austria (Radio 3), and the CBC in Ottawa and Montreal, he was the host of the immensely popular CBC and RCI show, "The Link".
He is now part of the new RCI online team producing stories from and about Canada from coast to coast.

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