An incredible find beneath the mud on tiny Triquet Island include spears, fishing hooks and fire-lighting tools.
Archaeologists are now trying to piece together clues about life in the village - the oldest ever found in North America.
This find is changing the way it’s believed North America was first peopled.
Triquet Island is little more than 200 miles south of the Alaskan border on Canada's west coast.
Local indigenous peoples of the Heiltsuk tribe have long passed down stories of ancient settlements on the same stretch of coast.
And the discovery is believed to have proved that oral stories passed down over thousands of years may be accurate.
Heiltsuk Nation spokesman William Housty said: "To think about how these stories survived all of that, only to be supported by this archaeological evidence is just amazing.”
