All throughout North America there are archeological anomalies that point to pre-Columbian expeditions to the New World. Top 3000 B.C . The copper culture starts in Asia Minor and Europe. Copper Mining operations start in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. The Bronze Age ends as Iron is discovered and with it the need for copper.
Mining operations end on Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
The water fills this small glacier-created valley and the structures are inundated and thereby protected. Local Indians regard this area as off limits and sacred. Top 900 A.D. Copper again becomes the coin of the realm, this time in Middle and South America. Mayan miners, astronomer-priests remembering the ancient lore of the copper deposits mined centuries earlier in Northern Michigan, mount expeditions to establish control of the mineral for the copper based economy. Early settlers arrive in the Rock Lake area and see strange protrusions sticking out of the water.