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An Unusual Cache from the Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Barry C. Kent
Barry C. Kent*
Affiliation:
William Penn Memorial Museum Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
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Abstract

In 1964, topsoil removal operations in the Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania, exposed a large cache of beads and shell objects. There is evidence that many of the beads and objects were originally strung as necklaces or belts, but these were destroyed when the discoverer washed the material. An attempt is made to reconstruct the contents of the cache and to determine its approximate age.

Type
Research Article
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 35 , Issue 2 , April 1970 , pp. 185 - 193
Copyright
Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1970

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