Beyond a Stone’s Throw from the Lithic Source: New Investigations of the Paleoindian Component at the Templeton Site in Western Connecticut

Author(s): Zachary Singer; Peter Leach; Tiziana Matarazzo; Cosimo Sgarlata; Dawn Beamer

Year: 2018

Summary

2017 marks the 40th anniversary of Roger Moeller’s initial excavation of Templeton, the first Paleoindian site systematically studied in Connecticut. New excavations at Templeton were conducted in 2016 and 2017 to further document the Paleoindian component of the site. This presentation reports on the results of the new excavations and the reanalysis of the Paleoindian materials recovered Moeller.

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Beyond a Stone’s Throw from the Lithic Source: New Investigations of the Paleoindian Component at the Templeton Site in Western Connecticut. Zachary Singer, Peter Leach, Tiziana Matarazzo, Cosimo Sgarlata, Dawn Beamer. Presented at The 82nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Washington, DC. 2018 ( tDAR id: 445224)

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Keywords

General
Lithic Analysis • New England • Paleoindian and Paleoamerican • Settlement patterns

Geographic Keywords
North America: Northeast and Midatlantic

Record Identifiers

Abstract Id(s): 21668