Shawnee-Minisink Site | |
Location: | Confluence of Brodhead Creek and the Delaware River, Smithfield Township, Pennsylvania |
Coordinates: | 40.9903°N -75.1341°W |
Added: | November 9, 2007 |
Area: | less than one acre |
Refnum: | 07001161 |
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.[1] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.
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.[2]
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.[3] [4] [5] [6]