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EMU prof helps preserve Michigan's only rock paintings
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
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Eastern Michigan University is taking historic preservation to a whole new level by trying to figure out a way to save Michigan's only early man rock paintings.
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YPSILANTI - Eastern Michigan University Chemistry Professor Ruth Ann Armitage recently traded in her Nicaraguan spelunking helmet for a trash bag with arm holes in it.
The 55-gallon trash bag was a good way to keep dry while hiking a rocky beach in cold, rainy weather on the shoreline of Big Bay de Noc on Lake Michigan in northern Michigan.
“The rock paintings there are the only ones in the state of Michigan. They’re thought to be connected to the Ojibwe,” said Armitage, who took a student and went in search of the paintings.
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