Lake Superior (Geographic Keyword)

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Isle Royale National Park Movement or a Study in Frustrations (1957)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Martha M. Bigelow.

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Isle Royale Shipwrecks (1977)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Frederick Stonehouse.

Marquette Shipwrecks (1974)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Frederick Stonehouse.

Metallurgical Analyses and Their Aid To Archaeology (1951)

DOCUMENT Citation Only William C. Root.

Michigan's Most Ancient Industry: the Prehistoric Mines and Miners of Isle Royale (1923)

DOCUMENT Citation Only William P. F. Ferguson.

Mott Sauna Beach Excavation and Site Survey at Isle Royale National Park (1993)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Caven P. Clark.

The 1991 archeological projects on Isle Royale included the final phase of excavation at the Mott Sauna Beach site, a Terminal Woodland Juntunen phase site, which will be disturbed by the continued construction of housing units on Mott Island. In addition, the investigation of a grave-robbing incident on Cemetery Island and a number of small compliance surveys are reported as contributions towards the documentation and interpretation of Isle Royale's archeological record.

Mysterious Copper Miners (1982)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Leslie Eger.

'Owing to the Backwardness of the Season’:Assessing the Exploratory Mining Process on Isle Royale (2021)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrew J Anklam.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Research, Interpretation, and Engagement in Post-Contact Archaeology of the Great Lakes Region" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Isle Royale located in Lake Superior was one of the centers of the nation’s first copper rush. Copper veins drew mid-19th century miners looking to stake a claim. By the mid-1850s these initial attempts at mining failed as the remote location and logistical hurtles made extracting...

Phase I Archaeological Survery of the Little Beaver Lake Campground and White Pine Trail Parking Lot Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore (2008)

DOCUMENT Full-Text John B. Anderton.

A Phase I Archeological Survey was conducted of the Little Beaver Lake Campground and the White Pine Trail parking lot expansion area within the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore on August 8th, 2008. The campground, a popular drive-in spot for tenting and small trailer use is located about 2.5 miles (4 km) north of H-58 at the terminus of the Little Beaver Lake Road, on the southwest end of Little Beaver Lake. The White Pine Trail parking lot is located approximately ¼ mile (0.4 km) to the south...

POLLEN ANALYSIS OF A SAMPLE FROM THE SIBLEY SITE 1, SQUAW BAY, ONTARIO, CANADA (2018)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

One sediment sample from a 50 mm diameter core sample taken from the Sibley Site 1, Squaw Bay, Ontario, was collected and submitted for pollen analysis. The core exhibited rhythmic clay with visible dark and light bands. A portion of the core was AMS radiocarbon dated, producing an age of 13,800 ± 60 14C BP (Fred Dean, personal communication, September 6, 2018). The sample was submitted to identify the local vegetation around Lake Superior during the late Pleistocene.

Possible Copper Route (1947)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Newell E. Collins.

Prehistoric Copper Mining in Isle Royale National Park, Michigan (1968)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tyler Bastian.

Preliminary Report on Archeological Survey in the Apostle Islands (1979)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Robert J. Salzer.

Archaeological research was conducted in the Apostle Islands and on the extreme northern tip of the mainland Bayfield Peninsula during a fourteen-week period in the Fall of 1979 by students and staff of the Department of Anthropology of Beloit College. The research was coordinated around the structure of an archaeological field school which was under the direction of Robert J. Salzer, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Logan Museum of Anthropology. Site survey techniques...

Primitive Copper Industry of America (1925)

DOCUMENT Citation Only George B. Phillips.

R-9 Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Report: Cci Land Exchange (1981)

DOCUMENT Citation Only John Franzen.

R-9 Cultural Resource Reconnaissance Report: Snowmobile Trail Construction, T47N, R5W, Chippewa Co (1980)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Justin C. Carrick.

Revaluation of the Old Copper Industry (1951)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Suzanne W. Miles.

Story of Isle Royale (1941)

DOCUMENT Citation Only H. E. Fredeen.

Submerged Cultural Resources Study Isle Royale National Park (1987)

DOCUMENT Full-Text D. J. Lenihan.

This article is an assessment of the shipwrecks in Isle Royale National Park. The island is literally surrounded by an array of ship remains that represent many types and stages of development of maritimes steam technology from the 1970s to the mid-1900s. This assortment includes passenger/package freighters, bulk freighters, a side-wheeler, wood-hulled ships and steel behemoths more than 500 feet in length, one of which went down as recently as 1947.

Trace Element Discrimination of Discrete Sources of Native Copper (1984)

DOCUMENT Citation Only George Rapp, Jr.. James Allert. Eiler Henrickson.