A Great Lakes 'Pompeii'? Lake Huron's depths hold secrets of human history

By Free Republic | Created at 2025-01-07 16:17:36 | Updated at 2025-01-08 14:56:29 22 hours ago

A Great Lakes 'Pompeii'? Lake Huron's depths hold secrets of human history
Michigan Environment Watch ^ | January 1, 2025 | Kelly House & Aaron Martin

Posted on 01/07/2025 8:16:30 AM PST by SunkenCiv

Fathoms beneath present-day Lake Huron, early Americans once stood on dry land, hunting caribou as the animals migrated between southern Ontario and northeastern lower Michigan.

A team led by University of Michigan researchers drew international attention when they announced those findings a decade ago, after discovering rock arrangements indicative of prehistoric hunting camps on a lake bottom ridge.

But far less fanfare has followed the scientists in years since, as they've pieced together an increasingly clear picture of life 10,000 years ago in the now-submerged subarctic grassland...

They've discovered fragments of tools that look nothing like other Great Lakes artifacts from a similar time period. They've found ancient trees -- roots still intact -- at the bottom of the lake. They located peat bogs where seeds have been preserved by the lake's cold, fresh water.

And importantly, they've developed a template for doing prehistoric research underwater -- one that will soon be put to use elsewhere in the Great Lakes...

O'Shea's team began exploring the ridge in 2008, using sonar, remote-operated vehicles and eventually human divers. They found stone hunting blinds, a boulder pathway used to herd caribou toward waiting hunters, and stone flakes leftover from spear point repair projects.

(Excerpt) Read more at bridgemi.com ...

TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: alpenaamberleyridge; caribou; godsgravesglyphs; lakehuron

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A graphic illustration shows the stretch of land between southern Ontario and northeastern lower Michigan called the Alpena-Amberley Ridge.Image courtesy of Aaron Martin

1 posted on 01/07/2025 8:16:30 AM PST by SunkenCiv

2 posted on 01/07/2025 8:17:15 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)

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