Winnipeg is home to one of the 10 best archaeology sites in North America. This summer archaeologists are peeling back layers of time at The Forks.
Far beneath the surface at the sight of the future Human Rights Museum, there are pieces of the past from as far back as the 1300's.
Sid Kroeker and his team of archeologists are uncovering ancient campsites. They've dug three meters into the ground.
The team started with a back hoe, then they worked with shovels, and now they take off miniscule layors of dirt.
"When we get to the cultural level we start hand trawling with a brick trawl," Kroeker told CTV News. "At this layer you're scarping maybe two millimeters at a time."
It is tedious work but he finds it rewarding.
"I've been in the business for over 30 years," he said. "Even still picking up a piece of someone's history that nobody else has touched for a thousand years -- it just tingles."
So far the team has found about 15,000 artifacts. They count everything from arrow heads and bison bones, to pieces of pottery and fish scales.
They estimate they will find more than 150,000 pieces. The artifacts will be put on display at a museum in Manitoba. The team will then create a 3-D map replica of the site.
The crew expects the dig will be complete by mid-September. The excavation site is open to the public.
