Younge Site

Younge Site (20LP3)
Location of Goodland Township, Michigan
Location Address Restricted
Goodland Township, Michigan
Coordinates 43°06′48″N 83°03′03″W / 43.11333°N 83.05083°W / 43.11333; -83.05083Coordinates: 43°06′48″N 83°03′03″W / 43.11333°N 83.05083°W / 43.11333; -83.05083
NRHP Reference # 76002161[1]
Significant dates
Added to NRHP October 29, 1976
Designated MSHS October 29, 1971[2]

The Younge Site is an archeological site located within the vicinity of Goodland Township in Lapeer County, Michigan. It was designated as a Michigan State Historic Site on October 29, 1971 and later added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 29, 1976.[1][2]

With a restricted address, the Younge Site is a pre-Columbian era site located in the east-central part of Lapeer County. There were no European objects discovered on the site, but there are two wooden structures and a burial site presumed to belong to Native Americans around the same time the Europeans arrived in the area in the seventeenth-century. Archaeologists discovered unusual burying practices in the exhumed remains, including the drilling of the skulls prior to being buried. The leg bones were also modified to support the body when suspended from a pole in an ossuary, which was observed—although not firsthand—in the accounts of the earliest European settlers.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 4, 2011.
  2. 1 2 State of Michigan (2009). "Younge Site (20LP3)". Retrieved August 9, 2011.
  3. ↑ Michelson, Truman. "Book Reviews: The Younge Site: An Archaeological Record from Michigan". doi:10.1525/aa.1938.40.3.02a00090.

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