The conclusion was that these people, whoever they had been, primarily subsisted from eating the meat of large marine mammals, like seals, sea lions, and walruses. But how long ago were they doing this? Could it have been during the Ice Age like the Heiltsuk had said? At the archaeological dig site on Triquet Island, the team had discovered tools that would have been used for hunting. But these spears were so big that it would have been impractical to catch fish with them. What’s more, the island had no land mammals.