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Archeological Evidence of Human Activity Found Beneath Lake Huron
June 8, 2009
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More than 100 feet deep in Lake Huron, on a wide stoney ridge that 9,000 years ago was a land bridge, University of Michigan researchers have found the first archeological evidence of human activity preserved beneath the Great Lakes.
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