Maize may have more importance in pre-European Michigan than previously thought‎

Indigenous people who were the first to inhabit the area now known as Michigan—before the Europeans arrived—may have cultivated maize (corn) more prominently than previously assumed for such a northern population. Researchers from the University of New Hampshire found that using modern global satellite data in a novel way helped them connect archaeological features—like ancient burial mounds—to environmental data of lake temperatures and gain new insights into past human–environment relationships.