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Precolonial farmers thrived in one of North America’s coldest places

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Drone-mounted lidar peered through trees and ground cover at Michigan ’s Sixty Islands archaeological site.

Precolonial agricultural ridges covered a total of at least 2 square kilometers along a river that now separates Michigan from Wisconsin .

Radiocarbon dates of burned wood excavated from the site indicate farming had occurred over roughly 600 years.

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