U-M divers retrieve prehistoric wood from Lake Huron

Monday, December 12, 2011 - 16:31 in Earth & Climate

Under the cold clear waters of Lake Huron, University of Michigan researchers have found a five-and-a-half foot-long, pole-shaped piece of wood that is 8,900 years old. The wood, which is tapered and beveled on one side in a way that looks deliberate, may provide important clues to a mysterious period in North American prehistory.

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