Shawnee-Minisink Site | |
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Location | Confluence of Brodhead Creek and the Delaware River, Smithfield Township, Pennsylvania |
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Coordinates | 40°59′25″N 75°08′2.7″W / 40.99028°N 75.134083°W |
Area | less than one acre |
NRHP reference No. | 07001161[1] |
Added to NRHP | November 9, 2007 |
Shawnee-Minisink Site is a prehistoric archaeological site located in Smithfield Township, Monroe County, Pennsylvania in the upper Delaware Valley. It was the site of a Paleoindian camp site.[2] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.[1]
The site covers an area of about 4,000 square meters with the Paleo-Indian and Early Archaic remains some meters below the ground. It was first excavated in 1972, in two short seasons (test squares with additional auguring totally 38 square meters) by a non-scientist archaeologist. From 1974 to 1977 it was excavated by an American University team led by Charles W. McNett Jr.[3]
Additional excavations were conducted from 2003 to 2006 covering 40 square meters in an area south of the original excavations. Finds included a heavily reworked Clovis point and a number of scrapers and cores. Two hearths were found in the Clovis layer which when radiocarbon dated produced a mean date of 10,937 ± 15 years Before Present.[4][5][6][7]