National Register of Historic Places

Shawnee-Minisink Site

Minisink Hills, Monroe County, Pennsylvania
Listed
November 9, 2007
Type
Site
Period
Listed
Ref No.
07001161

About this property

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. 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 totaling 38 square meters) by a non-scientist archaeologist Don Kline. From 1974 to 1977 it was excavated by an American University team led by Charles W. McNett Jr. 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.

Location

Minisink Hills, Monroe County, Pennsylvania

Categories

PREHISTORIC
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Shawnee-Minisink Site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 9, 2007.

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Shawnee-Minisink Site is classified as a site in the National Register of Historic Places.

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