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A prehistoric structure reminiscent of England’s iconic Stonehenge has been uncovered in Grand Traverse Bay, an arm of Lake Michigan on the western shore of Michigan’s Lower Peninsula. The findings were found by Dr. Mark Holley, a distinguished professor of underwater archaeology at Northwestern Michigan University.
16 paź 2024 · The Great Lakes are full of mysterious clues about the past, from prehistoric hunting blinds to a Stonehenge-like arrangement of granite blocks. Now, researchers have made yet another puzzling ...
8 paź 2024 · In 2022, researchers with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration surveyed Lake Michigan with sonar inside the Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast National Marine Sanctuary, an area known as the ...
1 cze 2021 · John M. O’Shea of the University of Michigan and his team of underwater archaeologists have found something extraordinary about these two pieces of obsidian: they traveled nearly 2,500 miles from...
13 lis 2021 · Archaeologists found something much more fascinating than they got credit for when searching under the waters of Lake Michigan for shipwrecks: they uncovered a rock with a prehistoric carving of a mastodon, as well as a collection of stones arranged in a Stonehenge-like manner.
29 lis 2021 · The Great Lakes region wasn’t always the freshwater realm we know today: rewind to millions of years ago and it was actually covered in tropical seawater. That’s why many of the fossils found in the area today are portions of coral reefs and ancient sea creatures.
21 paź 2024 · This entire area was covered by a shallow saltwater sea, known as the Silurian Sea. Animals of this time period are the Lake Michigan fossils we find today. The Silurian Sea was teeming with swimming and flowing life such as crinoids, cephalopods, brachiopods, and various corals.
