Shawnee-Minisink Site
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{{Infobox NRHP
| name = Shawnee-Minisink Site
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| image = SHAWNEE MINISINK SITE, MONROE CTY, PA.jpg
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| location = Confluence of Brodhead Creek and the Delaware River, Smithfield Township, Pennsylvania
| coordinates = {{coord|40|59|25|N|75|08|2.7|W|display=inline,title}}
| locmapin = Pennsylvania#USA
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| added = November 9, 2007
| area = less than one acre
| refnum = 07001161{{NRISref|version=2010a}}
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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.{{cite web| url = https://www.dot7.state.pa.us/ce/SelectWelcome.asp| title = National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania| publisher = CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System| format = Searchable database}} Note: This includes {{cite web| url = {{NRHP-PA|H143463_01H.pdf}}| title = National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Shawnee-Minisink Site| accessdate = 2012-03-24| author = Keith T. Heinrich| format = PDF| date= June 2007}} It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 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 Don Kline. From 1974 to 1977 it was excavated by an American University team led by Charles W. McNett Jr.Charles W. McNett, "Shawnee Minisink: A Stratified Paleoindian-Archaic Site in the Upper Delaware Valley of Pennsylvania", Academic Press, Orlando, 1985 {{ISBN|978-0124859715}}
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.Gingerich, Joseph A.M., "Shawnee-Minisink Revisited: Re-evaluating the
Paleoindian Occupation", Master's thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of Wyoming, 2007Gingerich, 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, 2011Gingerich, Joseph A. M., and Michael R. Waters, "New Dates from the Shawnee-Minisink Site, Pennsylvania", Current Research in the Pleistocene, 24, pp. 90-92, 2007Iceland, 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
References
File:SHAWNEE-MINISINK SITE, MONROE COUNTY.jpg
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Category:Archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania
Category:Monroe County, Pennsylvania
Category:National Register of Historic Places in Monroe County, Pennsylvania