9,000-YEAR-OLD STONEHENGE-LIKE STRUCTURE FOUND UNDER LAKE MICHIGAN

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9,000-YEAR-OLD STONEHENGE-LIKE STRUCTURE FOUND UNDER LAKE MICHIGAN

Archaeologists found something much more fascinating than they got credit for when searching under the waters of Lake Michigan for shipwrecks: they uncovered a rock with a prehistoric carving of a mastodon, as well as a collection of stones arranged in a Stonehenge-like manner.

Gazing into the water
In modern archaeology, the use of remote sensing techniques is common: scientists regularly survey lakes and soil for hidden objects.

Archaeologists uncovered sunken boats and cars and even a Civil War-era pier at a depth of around 40 feet into Lake Michigan’s Grand Traverse Bay, using sonar techniques to search for shipwrecks, but among all these, they found this prehistoric surprise, which a trained eye can guess by looking at the sonar scans photos in this article.

 

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From the initial site investigator

The Truth about the “Stonehenge” in Lake Michigan

Summary: he did find some possibly aligned stones, though not megaliths, not dissimilar to some other recent finds on the Pleistocene-era shores of Lakes Michigan and Huron, but even he is slightly non-commital about their significance as little is currently known. Speculation, though, runs toward the idea of a caribou drive line, or something similar. This discovery explodes as a viral meme every few months, almost always with fake photos attached from other submerged sites such as those in the Mediterranean (which your top photo almost certainly is).