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Spruce Swamp: A Partially Drowned Coastal Midden in Connecticut

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Bernard W. Powell
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Abstract

Archaeological, geological, and biological observations, including a quantitative midden analysis, of a shell midden on the Connecticut shore support the inference that a Woodland manifestation, probably of the East River aspect, was preceded by an Archaic, possibly Transitional, horizon. The deposit was formed during a lower sea stand; both global and regional sea-level data are cited in support of chronological placement.

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Research Article
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American Antiquity , Volume 30 , Issue 4 , April 1965 , pp. 460 - 469
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1965

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