Rodgers Shelter Archeological Site

Rodgers Shelter Archeological Site
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Nearest city	Right bank of the Pomme de Terre River, 5 miles (8.0 km) by road southwest of Fristoe, Missouri [1]
Coordinates	38°05′34″N93°20′43″W / 38.09278°N 93.34528°W / 38.09278; -93.34528
Area	0 acres (0 ha)
NRHP reference No.	69000090 [2]
Added to NRHP	June 23, 1969

Rodgers Shelter Archeological Site, also known as the Missouri Archaeological Survey Number 23BE125, is a historic archaeological site located at Warsaw, Benton County, Missouri. It is a terrace level archaeological site along the Pomme de Terre River. The site was excavated by R. Bruce McMillan and Raymond Wood before it was submerged by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers under the water of the Truman Reservoir. The stone tools from the site belong to Late Paleo-Indian (Dalton) Period, Middle Archaic, Late Archaic, and Woodland Period. ^[3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1969. ^[2]

References

1. Ahler, Stanley A. "Post-Pleistocene Depositional Change at Rodgers Shelter, Missouri". Plains Anthropologist 18.59 (1973): 1-26: 2.
2. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
3. Michael Fuller (April 2011). "23BE125 - Rodgers Shelter". St. Louis Community College. Retrieved September 1, 2016.

Further reading

• Wood, W. Raymond; McMilan, R. Bruce (1976). Prehistoric Man and His Environments: A Case Study in the Ozark Highland. New York: Academic Press. ISBN   1843763419.