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The Puckasaw Pits on Lake Superior

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

E. F. Greenman
E. F. Greenman*
Affiliation:
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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Abstract

In the past six years a number of pits dug into cobble-stone beaches of Lake Superior have been discovered. These are as much as four feet in depth and some are large enough to accommodate several people. They do not appear to have been roofed, and the small amount of animal bones, charcoal, potsherds, and other objects suggests that these pits were used as occasional shelters from the wind by Indians fishing through the ice on Lake Superior.

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Information
American Antiquity , Volume 30 , Issue 1 , July 1964 , pp. 91 - 92
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1964

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