The Archaeology of an Ancient Submerged Landscape
Nine thousand years ago, a dry land corridor connected northern Lower Michigan with Southern Ontario. This corridor provided a natural causeway from the semi-annual migration of caribou and an equally valuable terrain for Lake Paleoindian and Early Archaic hunters seeking to exploit the herds. Using survey techniques including side scan sonar, multibeam sonar, autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), and remote operated vehicles (ROVs) - an internatioanl team of researchers led by the University of Michigan is searching for traces of ancient hunters beneath Lake Huron.
