Shawnee-Minisink Site
Shawnee-Minisink Site is located in Pennsylvania
Shawnee-Minisink Site
Shawnee-Minisink Site is located in the United States
Shawnee-Minisink Site
LocationConfluence of Brodhead Creek and the Delaware River, Smithfield Township, Pennsylvania
Coordinates40°59′25″N 75°08′2.7″W / 40.99028°N 75.134083°W / 40.99028; -75.134083
Arealess than one acre
NRHP reference No.07001161[1]
Added to NRHPNovember 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]

Archaeology

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]

References

SHAWNEE-MINISINK SITE, MONROE COUNTY
  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania" (Searchable database). CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Note: This includes Keith T. Heinrich (June 2007). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Shawnee-Minisink Site" (PDF). Retrieved March 24, 2012.
  3. ^ Charles W. McNett, "Shawnee Minisink: A Stratified Paleoindian-Archaic Site in the Upper Delaware Valley of Pennsylvania", Academic Press, Orlando, 1985 ISBN 978-0124859715
  4. ^ Gingerich, Joseph A.M., "Shawnee-Minisink Revisited: Re-evaluating the Paleoindian Occupation", Master's thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of Wyoming, 2007
  5. ^ Gingerich, Joseph A. M., "DOWN TO SEEDS AND STONES: A NEW LOOK AT THE SUBSISTENCE REMAINS FROM SHAWNEE-MINISINK", American Antiquity, vol. 76, no. 1, pp. 127–44, 2011
  6. ^ Gingerich, Joseph A. M., and Michael R. Waters, "New Dates from the Shawnee-Minisink Site, Pennsylvania", Current Research in the Pleistocene, 24, pp. 90-92, 2007
  7. ^ Iceland, Harry, "Refining Paleo-Indian Lithic Technology at Shawnee-Minisink via an Artifact Refitting Study", North American Archaeologist, vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 237-267, 2013
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