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Divers examining boulders at the bottom of Lake Huron that served as caribou drive lanes for prehistoric hunters. (Credit: Photo courtesy of John O'Shea, U-M)

Divers Retrieve Prehistoric Wood from Lake Huron

1 posted on 12/15/2011 9:38:48 AM PST by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv; cripplecreek

Ron Jeremy was out swimming in THIS weather?


2 posted on 12/15/2011 9:40:25 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alterations - The acronym explains the science.)
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To: SunkenCiv
The idea that it was "shaped" at that period is an unknown. Sounds like a canoe/boat paddle.

So if I go down to the NY/Penn border, grab a 200 year old piece of wood, carve a totem pole, I have a 200 year old totem pole. Of course, I'd age it a bit first by burying it.

5 posted on 12/15/2011 9:45:53 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: SunkenCiv

I like the photo of the divers fins. Nice to see same model I have been using for 40 years is still good technology.

However, I would have preferred a picture of the piece of wood of which the article is about!


8 posted on 12/15/2011 10:12:18 AM PST by Cold Heart
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To: SunkenCiv

It’s a supercomputer....or maybe a space shuttle.....or maybe a stick.....I don’t know.


9 posted on 12/15/2011 10:30:08 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: SunkenCiv

Great....now that Wayne Carrini guy will put on a wet suit and see if the woody is a Ford or Chevy and then he’ll take it to that auction in Pebble Beach and he’ll get you all excited saying it’s in the program for $250,000 and then it’ll sell for 37 cents and a gum wrapper and then you feel bad. Damnit, Wayne! Make some money, will you!


10 posted on 12/15/2011 10:33:55 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: SunkenCiv
"But because most of the places in this area that prehistoric people lived are now under water, we don't have good evidence of this important shift itself- just clues from before and after the change.

Global Warming....Did they find any PREHISTORIC SUVs there? /s

11 posted on 12/15/2011 11:12:46 AM PST by ExCTCitizen (If we stay home in November '12... Don't complain if 0 shreds the constitution!!!)
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To: SunkenCiv
Under the cold clear waters of Lake Huron, University of Michigan researchers have found a five-and-a-half foot-long, pole-shaped piece of wood that is 8,900 years old.

It was found next to what appears to be a 8,900 year old pool table.

13 posted on 12/15/2011 11:19:52 AM PST by GreenHornet
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To: SunkenCiv

Yeah, and then I threw the irons in too, one at a time, and the bag after it. And then I took up mastodon hunting. It’s easier than golf.


14 posted on 12/15/2011 11:21:38 AM PST by Billthedrill
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To: SunkenCiv

I remember visiting a museum somewhere in the South about 20 years ago. In their shop they displayed a “Chippendale” chair (replica) that was carved out of wood that had been found at the bottom of Lake Michigan. The chair was very beautiful and the historic material made it even more so. The price was stratospheric, but it was an interesting concept — using wood salvaged from ca 1800 era shipwrecks.


15 posted on 12/15/2011 1:42:19 PM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: SunkenCiv

Is the government going to send the same SWAT teams to take their wood like they did to Gibson Guitar?


19 posted on 12/15/2011 5:15:59 PM PST by Fledermaus (I'll vote for Mitt Romney when Hell freezes over. He'd be as bad as Obama.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj; GOPsterinMA; Perdogg

I wonder what Hef was doing in Lake Huron?


20 posted on 12/16/2011 4:29:14 AM PST by Impy (Don't call me red.)
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