Edgewater Park Site
41°40′55″N91°33′25″W/ 41.682°N 91.557°W
TheEdgewater Park Siteis a 3,800-year-oldLate Archaiccampsite situated along theIowa RiverinCoralville,Iowa,United States.Plant remains recovered from the site suggest the inhabitants were in the earliest stages of adapting domesticated plants.
Excavationsrevealed a small encampment of twohearthsand areas for faunal andstone toolproduction. Other features identified include a discard area and a deep feature of unknown function.Lithic analysisreveals that the site occupants probably recently traveled along the Iowa River from the north center of the state and were engaged in late-stage tool manufacture and maintenance. Floral analysis indicates the site occupation occurred during the warm half of the year and that the occupants utilizedlittle barley,a non-local plant which was later cultivated, andbarnyard grass,a local plant probably also later cultivated. This site is interpreted as a short-term, late warm-season occupation of people migrating down the Iowa River, possibly towards winter encampments in what is now the southeast part of the state.[1]
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[edit]- ^Whittaker, William E., Michael T. Dunne, Joe Alan Artz, Sarah E. Horgen, Mark L. Anderson (2007) Edgewater Park: A Late Archaic Campsite along the Iowa River.Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology32(1):4-46.;http://findarticles /p/articles/mi_qa3904/is_200704/ai_n19433705