Underwater archeology reveals clues about Ice Age humans
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Underwater archeology reveals clues about Ice Age humans

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 23, 202618 min

During the last ice age, America’s coastlines and waterways looked much different than they do today. When glaciers melted, coasts and shorelines were inundated, burying early human settlements underwater. This is where underwater archeology comes in. Donning scuba gear and trowels, researchers are finding remarkably well-preserved artifacts that tell us more about what life was like in the early Americas. Joining Flora to talk about this is reporter Reid Frazier, who accompanied an underwater archeology team on an excursion in Lake Erie. Then, underwater archeologist Jessi Halligan talks about her discoveries at a key site in Fl...

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Hey, it's Flora and you're listening to Science Friday. We're headed to a dig site where archaeologists are looking for relics from human civilization dating back 12,000 years to the last ice age. But don't picture researchers in wide-brimmed hats under the scorching sun with trowels

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and tiny brushes. them in scuba gear because this archaeological site is deep under Lake Erie. Why go looking there and how do you do archaeology underwater? Here to tell us more is reporter Reed Frazier from the Allegheny Front in Pittsburgh who recently tagged along on this expedition.

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Hey Reed. Hey Flora. This setup sounds wet and wild. Tell us what it was like. So we go out on a boat on a rainy morning from Erie, Pennsylvania into the middle of

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