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 ...
All set!
I’ve never felt the rapture of the deep, the cold is just an extra incentive not to try it. :^) The Great Lakes (probably other than Superior) tend to be pretty good, once they warm up, and I’ve been quite comfortable swimming in September. October can be wade-able. This year the water never really warmed up, which has meant almost no snow at all. I’m for it. :^)
I’ve walked in around here in The Boonies all my life, and I’ve never seen any artifacts. And from family folklore, I know where one of the extended family groups would have their summer camp.
I may try it again. It's available on Amazon Prime for money, but Tubi, the Roku Channel, Plex, Freevee, and Pluto are streaming seasons 1 - 3 for nuttin' right now.
Pikes will get very large even when they’re cooped up in the inland lakes, that one beats me. A former coworker was teaching his girlfriend of the time how to cast early one spring day, and what they thought was a log went for it. They couldn’t keep it, but he had her photograph him holding it, huge thing.
The water temp diff between 25 ft and 30 ft was convincing.
:^)
(time index set to skip the opening spoken intro) [snip] Full fathom five from The Tempest and Tell me where is fancy bred? from Merchant of Venice. [/snip]Shakespeare: Full fathom five/Tell me where is fancy bred? from The Tempest
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At least in spots. Probably the lake levels were low enough at times to expose islands now long submerged, and crossing water has never been a great impediment, even before those big sporting goods chains. :^)
Good thing they’re doing archaeology in Lake Huron. Superior, it’s said, never gives up her dead...
“Superior, it’s said, never gives up her dead...”
But only when...’the skies of November turn gloomy.’
So, there’s that. ;)
I think they know where the ship is; it’s just too far down to make it the least bit affordable to haul her back up.
Man, I HATE Open Water. That is my one phobia. *SHUDDER* I’m perfectly fine when I can see the shoreline.
Never knew I had this ‘issue’ until Dad and I sailed across Lake Michigan one week. It was a relatively LARGE sailboat, rented trip with a real Captain and everything, but I was freaking OUT! Glad I was with my Navy Dad, for sure!
The largest I ever caught was just a couple of feet long. The bay we fished in was only around 6 foot deep. The walleye and Pike seemed to come in mostly on overcast days, maybe something to do with their eyes being sensitive. I did catch a 4 foot bowfin. I didn’t even know what it was and it sure did stink. Lucky me, lol. Drummond Island was a cheap vacation back in the day.
If you sit with back to a boulder and with a fire in front, You are protected front and rear, and the fire reflects and keeps you warm. A nice place to sit and flake your flints.
That makes perfect sense. That is the kind of thinking that is sometimes lacking in archaeology professionals. There is a place for “avocational” archaeologist too.
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