Clues to the Lives of North America’s First Inhabitants Are Hidden Underwater

Photo caption: Archaeologists collect samples from a prehistoric caribou hunting site on Alpena-Amberley Ridge in Lake Huron. Photo credit: Tane Casserley. Article by Sean Kingsley. Smithsonian Magazine – March 29, 2023.

Submerged prehistory holds insights on the first humans to live in North America

Below the surfaces of freshwater springs, lakes and rivers, sunken landscapes hold clues about the daily lives, beliefs and diets of the first humans to settle in what is now the United States. But submerged prehistory, as the study of these millennia-old sites is widely known, is often overlooked in favor of more traditional underwater archaeology centered on shipwrecks. […]

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