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At the Bottom of Lake Huron, an Ancient Mystery Materializes
[Sometimes] Scientific American ^ | June 1, 2021 | Aaron Martin

Posted on 06/06/2021 8:29:09 AM PDT by SunkenCiv

The air was likely frigid as the hunter lit a small fire. The caribou would come in the morning—forced through the narrow strip of marshland where he camped. There was nowhere else to go. The land was flanked by water on both sides, and large stones had been laid out in slanting lines to funnel the animals into this bottleneck. The hunter struck his weapon to sharpen its edge in anticipation. In that moment, two glassy flakes splintered away from the point of impact and fell to his feet. They would be buried there for nearly 10,000 years.

In 2013 those two shards of obsidian, a natural volcanic glass, would be recovered from a sample of earth, roughly the volume of a quart of milk, that was pulled from the bottom of Lake Huron, under 100 feet of water. And the story the flakes would tell was one of an even longer journey...

Obsidian was highly prized by ancient stone toolmakers. The flakes identified by Brendan Nash, a member of O’Shea’s team at the University of Michigan, have strike marks and sharp, feathered edges—both telltale signs of human modification. This evidence, combined with the distance to the obsidian’s original source, paint a picture of an extensive trade or exchange network that spanned the continent nearly 3,000 years after the end of the last ice age.

Stone tools recovered from the Alpena-Amberley Ridge are much smaller than artifacts found nearby that date to the same time period. This suggests that a group of ancient people, with a different way of life and system of hunting, existed on the ridge around 9,000 years ago.

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


TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: alpenaamberleyridge; ancientnavigation; brendannash; canada; godsgravesglyphs; johnmoshea; kankakeesandislands; kenosha; lakehuron; michigan; obsidian; ontario; uofmichigan; wisconsin; youngerdryas
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To: sit-rep

Sediment*


81 posted on 06/07/2021 4:16:11 AM PDT by sit-rep ( )
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To: Tallguy

On the other hand, perhaps the steel clamshell shovel used to scrape up the muck, scratched the two chips of obsidian when they were collected and the perfect arrowheads used by the forelorn hunter were never damaged.

Proof the hunter so trapped the wildlife with his cunning snare. .... or maybe not nor maybe they never existed and maybe sediment flows to where it always flows, ultimately to the bottom of a lake.


82 posted on 06/07/2021 4:17:50 AM PDT by Cvengr ( Adversity in life & death is inevitable; Stress is optional through faith in Christ.)
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To: sit-rep

There’s no possibility that a couple of stone tools wound up on the same piece of now-submerged land where human-built structures were found? Yes, that’s pretty much what they’re saying.


83 posted on 06/07/2021 4:18:57 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Sorry but I didn’t see anything I could picture as a structure. The rocks seen could have been naturally placed.


84 posted on 06/07/2021 4:38:38 AM PDT by sit-rep ( )
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To: SunkenCiv

They lost their weapons in a tragic canoeing accident?........................


85 posted on 06/07/2021 5:33:16 AM PDT by Red Badger (Jesus said there is no marriage in Heaven. That's why they call it Heaven.....................)
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To: Red Badger; wardaddy; Theophilus

https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3965511/posts?page=6#6


86 posted on 06/07/2021 6:18:58 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: whitney69

If I missed the sarcasm I apologize. Just so many legitimate finds being discredited without probable cause. There absolutely have been hoaxes, but to kneejerk judge every find as a hoax denies credit to the legitimate discoveries. :)


87 posted on 06/07/2021 9:04:23 AM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: SunkenCiv

And as you know, Portage was already a well used practice by the Hurons and other tribes long before they ever arrived. Who knows how long the natives had been traveling those waterways with very finely made Birch Bark Canoes light enough to portage with no problem. Because these waterways were their freeways I would suspect a very very long time. Humans tend to always find a way to take the path of least resistance. The trade routes were already there long before anyone from the new world came.


88 posted on 06/07/2021 9:21:16 AM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: Openurmind

“...but to kneejerk judge every find as a hoax denies credit to the legitimate discoveries.”

At least in this country, in many situations, you are innocent until proven guilty. But you have to admit there have been many “discoveries” that have been proven hoaxes. How many UFO sightings have been thrown helmets or someone trying to get their 15 minutes of fame? I go into these with an open mind and am not influenced with the media since they are predatory liars anyway. And the first thing that should be done is prove it.

So a good example is the government trying to determine the exitance of UFOs. The invented Bright Star and Blue Book, the 200 series regulations, whose only purpose was to disprove them. This seems to be the pattern and we only see the ones they did disprove all too often with the ones not proven wrong being hid in the back on the back burner. We seldom see those. They remain unexplained and not proven forever.

Is it honest? Nope. But it is done and has been successful for Uncle Sugar for long before my conception. As Rocky would say, “Absolutely.”

wy69


89 posted on 06/07/2021 12:16:20 PM PDT by whitney69
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To: frank ballenger

Twice I listened to the end. Now if the answer is not up front I am gone.


90 posted on 06/07/2021 7:02:37 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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