Paw Paw Cove Site

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Paw Paw Cove Site
Nearest city Tilghman, Maryland
Area 10 acres (4.0 ha)
NRHP reference # 09001150 [1]
Added to NRHP December 23, 2009

The Paw Paw Cove Site is an archaeological site on the coast of Talbot County, Maryland. The site, first identified in 1979, is a complex of three locations on 500 metres (1,600 ft) of shoreline on Chesapeake Bay, at which stone artifacts with an estimated date of 11,500 to 10,500 BCE have been found. Among the finds are fluted projectile points and flakes created during the manufacture of such points. [2]

Talbot County, Maryland County in the United States

Talbot County is a county located in the heart of the Eastern Shore of Maryland in the U.S. state of Maryland. As of the 2010 census, the population was 37,782. Its county seat is Easton. The county was named for Lady Grace Talbot, the wife of Sir Robert Talbot, an Anglo-Irish statesman, and the sister of Lord Baltimore.

Chesapeake Bay An estuary in the U.S. states of Maryland and Virginia

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The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. It is owned by Eastern Shore Land Conservancy. [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. Lowery, Darrin (Fall 1989). "The Paw Paw Cove PaleoIndian Complex Site, Talbot County, Maryland". Archaeology of Eastern North America (Volume 17). JSTOR   40914310.