A Shell Heap Site on Griffin Island, Wellfleet, Massachusetts
Moffett R. 1962. A Shell Heap Site on Griffin Island, Wellfleet, Massachusetts. American Antiquity. 28(1):96-100
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.
- Type
- Journal Article
- Authors
- Moffett, R
- Units
- CACO
- Keywords
- Am Indians, Archeology, Cultural Historical, Cultural Res, Historic Res, Historic Sites