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Michigan Archaeology Posters

Michigan Archaeology Posters

Echoes of Community: Remembering Paradise Valley through Archaeology

Echoes of Community: Remembering Paradise Valley through Archaeology

2022: Memories and material artifacts uncovered through careful archaeology are painting a more complete picture of everyday life in the once vibrant Paradise Valley neighborhood.

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Hot Iron and Cold Winters

Hot Iron and Cold Winters

2012: The Jackson Iron Company built Fayette in 1867 as an iron-smelting town on Michigan's Garden Peninsula. Today, archaeologists use artifacts and structural remains to tell us about daily life at the town, beyond what we know from documents alone.

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Native Copper

Native Copper

2013: For thousands of years, Native Americans mined copper on Isle Royale and in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Native people used the red metal to fashion tools and ornaments and revered it as a source of power.

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Beneath the Inland Seas

Beneath the Inland Seas

2014: Fragile shipwrecks are scattered along the bottom of the Great Lakes. Explore this photo mosaic of the wreck of the Pewabic, lost on Lake Huron in 1865.

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Unearthing Detroit

Unearthing Detroit

2015: The past is never where you think you left it. See a dramatic image of urban archaeology underway at the future site of Detroit's Renaissance Center development.

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Great Lakes Hunting

Great Lakes Hunting

2016: What is an atlatl? What is radiocarbon dating? Explore how Michigan archaeologists uncovered the age and authenticity of this spear-throwing tool.

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Tuskegee Airmen in Michigan

Tuskegee Airmen in Michigan

2017: The Tuskegee Airmen were America’s first Black military airmen. Learn about how these airmen trained in Michigan and what caused Lt. Frank Moody's P-39Q to crash into Lake Huron in 1944.

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Ezhibiigaadek Asin: "Knowledge Written On Stone"

Ezhibiigaadek Asin: "Knowledge Written On Stone"

2018: Shooting the arrow of knowledge into the future with digital preservation at Sanilac Petroglyphs Historic State Park. Explore new technologies needed for modern archaeological project success.

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