Drone based LIDAR has made a major new find in North America:
A new study has found that a thickly forested sliver of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is the most complete ancient agricultural location in the eastern United States. The Sixty Islands archaeological site is recognized as the ancestral home of the Menominee Nation. Known to the members of the tribe as Anaem Omot (Dog’s Belly), the area is a destination of pilgrimage, where remains of the settlement date to as far back as 8,000 B.C.Located along a two-mile stretch of the Menominee River, Sixty Islands is defined by its cold temperatures, poor soil quality and short growing season. Although the land has long been considered unsuitable for farming, an academic paper published on Thursday in the journal Science revealed that the Menominee’s forbears cultivated vast fields of corn and potentially other crops there.
From the New York Times.
I'll update if time permits after reading the full paper.
5 comments:
Don't get me so excited, Andrew! I thought you meant "Upper Paleolithic", given the usual content here.
All short acronyms have multiple meanings! :) And yes, Upper Paleolithic would have been more exciting indeed than Upper Peninsula. My mom's family comes from the Upper Peninsula (I was recently at a family reunion there) and a dear friend from college lives in Menominee, Wisconsin, which is on that river, so that is also a familiar UP acronym for me.
You can just say that your grandparents are Yoopers, we won't hold it against you :)
Ha Hae! (as they say in Latin).
I thought it was going to be Uttar Pradesh!
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