Townsend Site

Townsend Site
Nearest city Lewes, Delaware
Area 28 acres (11 ha)
NRHP reference # 78000919[1]
Added to NRHP September 1, 1978

The Townsend Site is a major prehistoric Native American site in Sussex County, Delaware. The Late Woodland site includes at least 90 significant features, including numerous burial sites. The site received its first thorough study in 1948, and was the first Late Woodland site in the state to be examined in consultation with professional archaeologists of the Smithsonian Institution, and resulted in the creation of a typology of ceramics found.[2]

The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.[1]

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References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ Griffith, Daniel (Fall 1982). "Prehistoric Ceramics in Delaware (An Overview)". Archaeology of Eastern North America (Volume 10). JSTOR 40914199.


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