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years apart. Ceramics of the types found in these layers, when found at other sites, had traditionally been folded into a general Late Woodland-Contact Period grouping, but this site's finds made it possible to differentiate them. The site suffers from erosion, particular during exceptionally high-water events.
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This site, Maine Survey Number 49.25, is located on the banks of the river. has been dated to the Woodland period. The site is stratified in time across much of the Woodland period; ten high-quality ceramic vessels were found here. The number and quality of the ceramics found here are the best in
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This site, Maine Survey Number 49.26, is located on a terrace above the river. Its features include a depression, which may be evidence of occupation (a house pit). Most of the artifacts collected at this site consist of fire-cracked rock, but stone artifacts from material mined at Mount Jasper
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The Town of Rumford Site, Maine Survey Number 49.20, is a Woodland period site, encompassing a particularly well-defined living area. The site is particularly significant because it encompasses at least two separate occupation periods, clearly separated by the site's stratigraphy to periods 500
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This site, Maine Survey Number 49.28, has been dated to the Archaic period, although there is evidence of later occupation or use. It is also where the earliest radiocarbon dates in this group has been found, and it includes a heavily stratified area documenting significant environmental events.
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This site, Maine Survey Number 49.24, is located on a terrace above the river, and has been undisturbed by plowing. The site is deeply stratified, and has been dated to the Archaic period, with evidentiary finds dating to the early Archaic. Finds at this site include stone tools sourced from
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This heavily stratified site, Maine Survey Number 49.27, has been dated to the Archaic period, although there is evidence of later occupation or use. The site includes an open hearth dated to c. 5,000 BCE. Finds at this site include stone tools sourced from
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the area. Relatively few stone artifacts were found here. The style of the ceramics found are consistent with finds elsewhere dated to the Early and Middle Woodland Periods.
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Pollock, Stephen; et al. (2008). "Prehistoric Utiliziation of Spherulitic and Flow Banded Rhyolites from Northern New Hampshire".
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Spiess, Arthur (1971). National Register nomination for Town of Rumford Site; available by request from the National Park Service
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and contact with Europeans. These sites are the subject of three separate listings on the
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Finds at this site include a toolmaking workshop area, and stone tools sourced from
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University and college buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places
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Spiess, Arthur (1991). National Register nomination for Rumford Falls Site I-IV
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are a collection of prehistoric Native American sites in the vicinity of the
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were also recovered. The site has been dated to the Woodland period.
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U.S. National Register of Historic Places
South Rumford, Maine
MPS
Androscoggin River Drainage Prehistoric Sites MPS
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Androscoggin River
Rumford, Maine
early Archaic period
Woodland period
National Register of Historic Places
Mount Jasper
Berlin, New Hampshire
Mount Jasper
Berlin, New Hampshire
Mount Jasper
Berlin, New Hampshire
National Register of Historic Places listings in Oxford County, Maine
"National Register Information System"
National Register of Historic Places
National Park Service









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