Petroglyphs found in a cave in Conception Bay North may be the first historical indigenous drawings found on the island of Newfoundland, according to a professor at Memorial University.

Barry Gaulton, an associate professor in the department of archeology, said they were contacted by a resident of the area that had been told the location of the cave as a secret. Gaulton and his team went to investigate and were quite surprised by what they found.

“To the best of my knowledge, there’s no other known or recorded indigenous carving on the island of Newfoundland,” he told The Compass. “This would be the first.”

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