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DOCUMENT Full-Text Craig N. Cipolla. David Landon.

This report describes and interprets a collection of archaeological shell specimens from Ellis Island National Historic Monument. As part of mitigation efforts during the construction of the National Park Service Museum of Immigration, archaeologists under the direction of John Pousson carried out excavations at a Native American shell midden site on Ellis Island. The site contained a variety of artifacts and archaeobiological materials dating from the Late Archaic through Woodland Period. This...