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A Shell Heap Site on Griffin Island, Wellfleet, Massachusetts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Ross Moffett
Ross Moffett*
Affiliation:
Provincetown, Mass.
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Abstract

A group of small middens has yielded cultural materials that are characteristic of Cape Cod. A Middle Woodland stage having grit-tempered, dentate- and rocker-stamped pottery, stemmed and side-notched points was followed by a Late Woodland 1 stage using course shell-tempered, straight-sided vessels, and large triangular points. A late Woodland 2, or final, stage had fine shell-tempered, globular pots, to some extent suggestive of late Windsor pottery of the coastal section west of Cape Cod.

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American Antiquity , Volume 28 , Issue 1 , July 1962 , pp. 96 - 100
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1962

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