Lasanen Site

Lasanen Site
Location Overlooking East Moran Bay, St. Ignace, Michigan[1]
Coordinates 45°52′0″N 84°44′0″W / 45.86667°N 84.73333°W / 45.86667; -84.73333Coordinates: 45°52′0″N 84°44′0″W / 45.86667°N 84.73333°W / 45.86667; -84.73333
Area less than one acre
NRHP Reference # 71000412[2]
Added to NRHP May 6, 1971

The Lasanen Site, designated 20MA21, is an archaeological site located in St. Ignace, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.[2]

Description

The Lasanen Site is located within the city of St. Ignace, on what was once a beach ridge above the Straits of Mackinac.[3] The site is a burial ground associated with the Iroquois culture.[4] Nineteen small burial pits, located in an area approximately 100 feet (30 m) by 50 feet (15 m),[5] were identified at the site.[3] Five more burial pits were found on adjacent property.[5]

History

The Lasanen Site was discovered in 1966, when a private landowner, Dr. W. C. Lasanen, unearthed human remains while excavating to construct a foundation.[3] Lasanen notified the Mackinac Island State Park Commission, and elements of the site were investigated in 1966 and 1967 by Park Commission staff and researchers from Michigan State University.

The details unearthed at the burials are consistent with those witnessed and described by Antoine Laumet Cadillac in 1694-97, and may be the same.[3]

References

  1. ↑ The NRIS goves the location of the Lasanen Site as "address restricted;" however, Buckmaster (Marla Buckmaster (1971), C. E. Cleland, ed., The Lasanen site: an historic burial locality in Mackinac County, Michigan, Michigan State University) describes the site location as "within the city limits of St. Ignace" and "overlooking Moran Bay to the east." The geo-coordinates are approximate.
  2. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Timothy Pauketat (2012), The Oxford Handbook of North American Archaeology, Oxford University Press, pp. 428–429, ISBN 0195380118
  4. ↑ "MICHIGAN - Dickinson County (NRIS database access)". NationalRegisterOHhistoricPlaces.com. Retrieved May 20, 2012.
  5. 1 2 Alfred K. Guthe (1973). "Review: The Lusanen Site: An Historic Burial Locality in Mackinac County, Michigan". American Anthropologist. 75 (4): 1127–1128. doi:10.1525/aa.1973.75.4.02a01490.

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