The Steven's Site: Investigations of Possible Quarry Adjacent Habitation at the Munsungun Lithic Quarry

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Red Munsungun Chert appears in Paleoindian archaeological assemblages throughout Northeastern North America. While ubiquitous, the source location for this material has only been recently discovered. The NKP quarry, in far Northern Maine, identified by the authors is located within the Munsungun Lake region. Over the past three years, the authors have been conducting geoarchaeological reconnaissance, small-scale test excavations, and geologic sampling. This poster will present results from our most recent fieldwork, lithic and microwear analysis results, and interpretations of the site spatial patterning. The authors contend that they may have discovered a quarry-associated habitation site dating to the Paleoindian period located near the NKP source.

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• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 25628