Bangor Daily News [USA], 8/13/10
An ancient freshwater lake, now submerged under salt water off the coast
of Mount Desert Island, offers insights into how Maine's coastline was
formed and how those areas that are now under water became habitable for
the state's earliest settlers. A team of researchers from the University
of Maine and the University of New Hampshire discovered the lake during
a study of an area off the coast of Mount Desert Island near where
fishermen had found prehistoric stone tools more than a decade ago.
During a 3,000-year interval when the sea level rose slowly, the
earliest humans inhabited coastal areas that now are under 65 to 100
feet of water. The discovery of the now submerged lake provides a
glimpse into the early life of the Indian tribes that inhabited lands
that are now submerged. "Archaeological deposits of life along the Maine
coast really date back only about 5,000 years; everything older than
5,000 years of Indian life has been submerged under the seas," said
Arthur Spiess, senior archaeologist with the Maine Historic Preservation
Commission. "We have virtually no idea how people lived along the Maine
coast from the end of the ice age to 5,000 years ago."
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<http://www.bangordailynews.com/story/Hancock/Discovering-a-hidden-lake,151187>
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