'Ice-age' era spearhead unearthed by accident on Paris, Ont., farm
When Mike and Laura Vellenga were working on their family farm in Paris, Ont., the last thing they expected to find was what may be a 12,500-year-old piece of history. The couple has accidentally unearthed two pieces of an ancient spearhead that are small enough to fit in your palm and made of a piece of chert flint — light grey, with thin gold veining. Thousands of years ago, it would have been used by a hunter-gatherer as a weapon at the end of a stick. CBC K-W's Aastha Shetty went out to the farm to speak with the Vellenga family about their once-in-a-lifetime discovery.