Elyse Lewin in to consult, even the local elders had to agree this particular discovery merited looking into. Though Canadian ethics laws largely forbid excavations, once Begg brought Dr. Always a lot of home improvement projects on the go, over that way that’s what Anne-Marie-Dr. Anne-Marie Begg’s people hauled the trunks out one by one, cross-cut the longest ones, then loaded them up and took them back to the Reserve, where they’ll be planed in the traditional manner and used for rebuilding. Almost a month later-a hideously cold, rainy October, heading straight for Hallowe’en-the air still stinks of sap, stumps bleeding like wounds. Not this one, though: it’s tucked up under a ridge of granite, surrounded by conifer old growth so dense they had to park the vehicles a mile away and cut their way in on foot, trying to disturb as little as possible. Then isostatic rebound led to a gradual return, which is why most sites dating between the end of the Paleo-Indian period and 4,000 years ago are largely under water. Up above the water-line, too, which makes it incredibly unlikely most people lived in lakeshore camps back then, right when the water levels were at their lowest after the remnant ice mass from the last glacial advance lying across the eastern outlet of Lake Superior finally wasted away, causing artificially high lake levels to drop over a hundred metres. or so, going strictly by contents, thus beating out the recent Bug River find by almost 2,000 years. The site they’re working on is probably Early Archaic-6,500 B.P.
It whispers in her ear at night, secret, liquid.
It resonates through her in layers: skin, muscle, cartilage, bone.
There’s a sort of tone a skeleton gives off Aretha Howson can feel it more than hear it, like it’s tuned to some frequency she can’t quite register. Put the pieces back together, fit them against each other chip by chip and line by line, and they start to sing.
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