Paleo Crossing site - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Paleo Crossing site - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Paleo Crossing site, also known as the Old Dague Farm site, is an archaeological site near Sharon Center, Ohio in Medina County where Clovis artifacts dated to 10,980 BP ± 75 years Before Present were found.MILLER, G. LOGAN, "ILLUMINATING ACTIVITIES AT PALEO CROSSING (33ME274) THROUGH MICROWEAR ANALYSIS", Lithic Technology, vol. 38, no. 2, pp. 97–108, 2013 The Cleveland Museum of Natural History conducted an excavation from 1990 to 1993.Brose, David S., "Archaeological Investigations at Paleo Crossing Site, a Paleoindian occupation in Medina County, Ohio. In The First Discovery of America, by W. S. Dancey, pp. 61-76. The Ohio Archaeological Council, Columbus Ohio, 1994 The site provides evidence of Paleo-Indians in northern Ohio and may be the area's oldest residents and archaeologist Dr. David Brose believes that they may be "some of the oldest certain examples of human activity in the New World." The site contains charcoal recovered from refuse pits. There were also two post holes and blades and tools 80% of which were made from flint (Wyandotte chert) from the Ohio River Valley in Indiana, 500 miles from Paleo Crossing, which indicates that the hunter-gatherers had a widespread social network and traveled across distances relatively quickly. The post holes are evidence that there was a shelter built on the site. Read more on Wikipedia
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