Shawnee-Minisink Site
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]
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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 |
| Area | less than one acre |
| NRHP reference No. | 07001161[1] |
| Added to NRHP | November 9, 2007 |
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
- "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- "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.
- Charles W. McNett, "Shawnee Minisink: A Stratified Paleoindian-Archaic Site in the Upper Delaware Valley of Pennsylvania", Academic Press, Orlando, 1985 ISBN 978-0124859715
- Gingerich, Joseph A.M., "Shawnee-Minisink Revisited: Re-evaluating the Paleoindian Occupation", Master's thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of Wyoming, 2007
- 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
- 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
- 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
