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September 12, 2003. The Spiller Farm Paleoindian Site, designated Site 4.13 by the Maine Archaeological Survey, is a prehistoric archaeological site in Wells, Maine. Located overlooking a stream on the Spiller Farm property on Branch Road, it is an extensive site at which a fine collection of stone artifacts has been found, dating to c. 8,000 BCE.
The Munsungan-Chase Lake Thoroughfare Archeological District encompasses a series of important archaeological sites in a remote area of northern Maine, United States.These sites offer evidence of human habitation dating to not long after the retreat of the glaciers following the Wisconsin glaciation, with extensive stone tool workshops working with red chert found in abundance in the area.
The massive numbers of stone tools recovered at Swan's Landing indicate that the site was employed as a factory for stone tools from nearby stone outcrops. Some tools were produced at the site,: 208 and many blanks were also produced there for reduction at other locations. Because virtually all stone tools found at the site are made of local ...
Added to NRHP. September 26, 1986. The Willard Brook Quarry is a prehistoric stone quarry site in a remote portion of Piscataquis County, Maine. The quarry site is located on one of a series of outcrops near Munsungan Lake in north-central Maine, all of which have yielded stone tools found at prehistoric sites throughout northern New England.
Stone tools Sterkfontein Member 5 [47] 1.1-1.6 Ma South Africa Southern Africa Stone tools, Homo and Paranthropus remains Barranco León [48] 1.2-1.4 Ma Spain Western Europe Stone tools, animal bones, bone flakes Bois de Riquet US 2 [49] [50] 1.2 Ma France Western Europe Stone tools Wolo Sege, So'a Basin [51] 1 Ma Flores, Indonesia Island ...
The Goddard Site is a prehistoric archaeological site in Brooklin, Maine. The site is notable for the large number of stone artifacts found, most of which were sourced at locations well removed from the area, and for the presence of worked copper artifacts. It is most widely known as the claimed location at which the Maine penny, a Norse coin ...
More than 10,000 artifacts were found at the site. Most of the flint tools were made from stone unique to a quarry about 500 kilometres (310 mi) away in southern Indiana. [5] Most of the tools and blades found at the site were heavily reworked, presumably because of the long distance from the source of material. [8]
November 14, 1992. The Rumford Archaeological Sites are a collection of prehistoric Native American sites in the vicinity of the Androscoggin River near Rumford, Maine. These six sites provide a window of observation into the movements and practices of Native Americans from c. 7,000 BCE (the early Archaic period) to the Late Woodland period and ...