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In 2001, the Church had the relics examined by Professor of Anthropology Richard B. Stamps, of Oakland University and found that the artifacts were made with contemporary tools. [3] The LDS Church kept 797 of the objects in their Salt Lake City Museum. In 2003, they gave them to the Michigan History Museum in Lansing where they currently reside ...
The Holcombe Site, also known as Holcombe Beach, [3] is a Paleo-Indian archaeological site located near the intersection of Metropolitan Parkway and Dodge Park Road [2] [3] in Sterling Heights, Michigan, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971 [1] and designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1970. [3]
The Moccasin Bluff site (also designated 20BE8) is an archaeological site located along the Red Bud Trail and the St. Joseph River north of Buchanan, Michigan.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977, [1] and has been classified as a multi-component prehistoric site with the major component dating to the Late Woodland/Upper Mississippian period.
Artifacts including pottery, tools and jewelry--some made 10,000 years ago--were found during digging in 2021 for the last leg of the Triangle Expressway. A popular spot over thousands of years
The history of the museum begins before the museum was established. The founder of the university's collection of artifacts was Francis Kelsey, a professor of Latin at the University of Michigan from 1889 until his death in 1927. [3] [4] Kelsey began acquiring artifacts in 1893 in order to help his students understand the ancient world. [5]
The site was excavated under the auspices of the University of Michigan in 1936 and 1937. Emerson Greenman and George Quimby supervised the excavations. [ 1 ] In 1945, Greenman and Victoria Harper each authored articles describing some of the artifacts.
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Most of the bone found was from the lake sturgeon. [7] There were also two black bear craniums found near the tops of two features, both with their mandibles removed. [8] A bear cranium was found under similar conditions at the Bell site in Wisconsin, and the researchers at that site suggested it may be evidence of the prehistoric to early historic practice of bear ceremonialism.