Uncovering 2024’s Greatest Archaeological Mysteries in west Quebec!
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- Even I was blown away by my own discoveries as i looked back through my gps locations and photo markers i had made in 2024 so i am happy to welcome you all to the official 2024 recap of all the groundbreaking archaeological discoveries here in west Quebec.
Join me on this 16-minute journey as I briefly touch on these enigmatic findings and what they mean for our collective history. Full length videos of these sites are either in the comments as links or coming soon!
GEORGE!!!
(Great job with this, bro! See you and the mysteries soon!)
@@siriusfun thanks bro! See u in the downtown of the ancients indeed!! 🤘
Thanks again, Steve! Your videos and pictures are beautiful. Not to mention the awesome discussion. I look forward to more fascinating info.
Thanks so much! More coming for sure.
awesome recap Steve, Embrace the Fantastical to Reveal the Truth!
Thanks so much Bruce!!! Looking forward to having you back up!
Excellent! Thank you.
@@marciasweezey7777 thank you!!
Cool video. Thanks for showing this history and mystery.
@@CurtisHummel glad you enjoyed. Thanks for commenting.
Lovely informative video!
@@samanthanemr3026 thank you so much! 💚
Super fascinating stuff
@@JakeJesses glad you enjoy thanks for the comment!!
Awesome possum!!! Can't wait to see more.
Great video, Steve... I hope to get up there sometime this year.
@@NEHSSIE thanks man! And awesome I am thinking of having a retreat of ancients this coming May. I’ll keep you posted.
Hey Steve, good to see you up and about. I got rid of messenger.
Happy to be out there and putting it out there!
West Quebec, the Pontiac and the Gatineaus are a great place to explore - lots of signs of early settlement!
and glacial evidence, First Nations 100%
Could not agree more. Just follow the ancient shores of the Champlain sea at 220m it will take you to Vermont, upstate NY, the eastern townships and here in west Quebec!
Thanks for these videos. Have you or anyone else tried metal detecting on and around these structures?
This summer for sure!
i didn't even know we had those here, i would love to know where they are located and if they are some near me
Are you in west Quebec? Eastern townships? Northern Vermont? Check the wilderness at between 220 meters and 300m. You’ll find some. And please let me know when you do! :)
Excellent content and definitely made man objects. Given the area, do you know what these structures were used for? Housing, grain storage, religious reasons? Speaking of which, have you found any artifacts on these ruins that might indicate teir use? You did mention Lidar in this video but I'm wondering if someone in a university or government position has done liDAR of that area, or if someone knows and has already published papers regarding thes historical areas...
MAJOR EXCAVATION IS NEEDED: Definitely, a lot of earth work went on there. So amazing!
p.s. do you think a sasquatch could have made some of those mounds. Or rock walls on the top of a ridge..
Agreed!! Slowly but surely, and respectfully, it will come.
A LiDAR scanner would be great for mapping these structures that you can see, but especially good for things that you can't see with the naked eye, like stuff buried under vegetation.
Fascinating, ust incredible stuff. Tribal history just begging to be deciphered... Wonder if any of the Algonquian tales passed down could help?
Indeed. The Wabanaki Confederacy (Mi'Kmaq, Maliseet, Passamaquoddy, Abenaki, Penobskot etc.) has oral traditions of eastern origins. That would be a good place to start.
The Microsoft Co-pilot AI states the Algonquin were believed to have settled the Ottawa Valley approx. 8000yrs before the European settlers, and that they came from the Atlantic coast. Wiki has this to add:
"In the oral history of the Great Anishinaabeg Migration, the Algonquins say they migrated from the Atlantic coast. Together with other Anicinàpek, they arrived at the "First Stopping Place" near Montreal. While the other Anicinàpe peoples continued their journey up the St. Lawrence River, the Algonquins settled along Kitcisìpi (the Ottawa River), a long-important highway for commerce, cultural exchange and transportation. Algonquin identity, though, was not fully realized until after the dividing of the Anicinàpek at the "Third Stopping Place". Scholars have used the oral histories, archeology, and linguistics to estimate this took place about 2000 years ago, near present-day Detroit.[6"
So there are two different dates already floating around - 8000yrs ago and 2000yrs ago. That's quite a discrepancy. Regardless, if the 220m ancient Champlain seas shoreline is to be observed (12,800 to 10,000 years ago), these were definitely built long before the Algonquin arrival to the region.
Hope that adds some intrigue... Cheers!
indeed it is. Oh yeah all the oral histories of all the people of north america would be helpful. theres so much truth... but not easy to decipher
Have you tried using a metal detector? Its possible to find copper.....there was prehistoric copper mining happen in the Great Lakes(ie Isle Royale).
Haven’t yet but it’s on my list for this summer. Thanks for the comment!
my brother and I built that as kids.
Ahhh thank you! Mystery solved! 🤘😝
Those aren't "energy field lines", those are stone deposits from farmers pulling stones our of their fields likely within the last century judging by the size of the trees. You will likely notice how one side of the wall (or both) are relatively level, whereas the forest in any far away random location is bumpy. When a tree falls and rots, the root clump leaves a hump and depression in the direction of the fall. over centuries/millennia, these build up and that's why when you go into the forest in some random place it's extremely bumpy. Farmers looking to plant crops would clear a forest, de-stone the field by piling the stones along the boundary, and level the humps/depressions using draft animals before tilling and planting. In the rare cases where you can't identify a level surface and it's bumpy all around, it is typically where they would have kept animals in pasture. You don't need to level pastureland because animals can graze bumpy ground, whereas you must level a field in order to properly plant.
Just can’t for the life of me figure out why the farmers would make so many different shapes with the ‘piles’. And also why would they always make clusters of these built up structures with specific shapes? Like always at least 5 and up to 30, 40 even 100? All together within a stones throw of each other? And all these specific shapes? But then also, why would the settlers all keep these structure parks a secret? The Dutch, the French, the English, the Irish, the German, the Prussian, etc… they all participated in the culture of ‘artistic stone sculpture parks’ but none of them ever wrote about it. Big huge shared secret between all the early settlers. You should watch a bunch of videos of mine to see what I’m talking about. You seem to know what you are talking about. I think you will appreciate the logic and the visuals in my videos.
@@steveleterrain Thanks for the reply, I'll take a look at your other videos. The structures you are seeing are technically termed "stone dumps". Every year new stones deposited by glaciers during the last ice age rise to the surface due to the freeze/thaw cycle, forcing farmers to remove them from their fields and dump them somewhere, typically along boundary lines or in piles. It isn't so much a conspiracy that no one wrote about so much as the fields have just been forgotten over time and many generations. This (backbreaking) practice would have been completely normal for people back then and continues to be done today using machinery. In fact, aboriginals were used way back to clear the fields and paid by the cord (~$1/cord in 1920).
It's actually a rewarding pastime walking through the forest and trying to forensically re-create what took place and when. As for the shapes, you can see some in new fields today driving to Montreal from Ottawa for example (giant piles, "walls", etc). With enough knowledge you can trace climatic events back nearly 1000 years, or for example look at a part of the land and know that exactly 130 years ago someone planted wheat, and abandoned the field 20 years later. If you research the settlement patterns and economies in the 1700 - 1900s in the area, you may be able to get a sense of what was going on. For example, there may have been a period of sheep madness, where they switched forested land to sheep pastures and raised tens of thousands sheep. Perhaps the first settlers specialized in wheat and subsistance farming until a railroad was built nearby and they switched to "cash crops". New England has thousands of miles of these walls, it really is almost another wonder of the world in terms of the man hours they took to create.
@ I appreciate your points but have to say that the debate has really moved on from “were they colonial constructions” to what type of pre colonial culture was responsible. Most mainstream archeologists have come to agree that after careful inspection of several cairn sites they can’t possibly be colonial. It’s especially obvious here in west Quebec because the original settlers only go back 5-6 generations. The house I live in was built by the first settlers and is in perfect shape. Especially the stonework. I’ve seen homesteads in the area that have been abandoned for generations and the stone foundations are all there pretty perfect and obvious as to what their purpose was. These cairns are meticulously constructed into walls , circles and shapes with some of the heaviest stones (some over a ton) are often placed at the top of structures. So there’s no logical explanation for these monuments… and I know what clearing piles look like. They look like piles. Clearing piles are also usually one or two per field not 10-50 arranged in clusters together often no where near any farming. Again, this area is so relatively recently settled that there’s no mistaking land that has been farmed at one time to land that has not / could not have been farmed ever. So the questions have changed and now the discussion is even more interesting! Lemme know what you think after checking out some of my videos as well as the overall depth of video content and discussion about who may be responsible for these. Cheers.
Just saw you are in La Peche. I coincidentally live in the same area and frequently go off trail in Gatineau park. I'm going to keep an eye out in the spring... I'm not convinced this was not Europeans (or Algonquin) but willing to keep an open mind. Some of these clips don't look like old agricultural areas, while other look like they have been cultivated.
It's always great to have an open mind. It is really quite amazing what is out there. It was closed minded people that protected the Clovis first dogma so aggressively setting archeology and our knowledge of history back decades. And yes they are found on both agricultural as well as old growth forests and entirely 'unfarmable' land. Have a look at the short i uploaded today. Great example of unfarmable land because it is all bedrock. The cairn shown in video is 7 feet tall and very nearly perfect as seen from the drone footage. it is one of many uniquely shaped cairns all surrounding this one bedrock mountain. And thanks for the input. Discussion is good!
whats the name of the song and band playing at the end?
It’s called Sandy Breaches and it’s one of my unreleased demos. Thanks for asking!