This Canadian lake holds an undisturbed archive of human history
Find out how a tiny lake in Ontario became a global scientific landmark
With more than a quarter of a million lakes across Ontario, they're not just a place where we enjoy recreation; they're also a wealth of information for thousands of years.
Incredibly, one of those lakes, Crawford Lake, roughly 50 kilometres west of Toronto, has been selected as the “Golden Spike” candidate for a proposed new Anthropocene Epoch.
“What that means is that it was chosen as the best place to show how humans have changed the planetary system,” explains Dr. Soren Brothers, Curator of Climate Change at the Royal Ontario Museum.
The small quiet lake, located near Milton, Ont., has been slowly recording the impact of humans, locally, regionally, and globally, for a thousand years.
Learn more about this remarkable little lake in Ontario that has intrigued archaeologists, biologists, and geologists in the video that leads this article.