Paw Paw Cove Site Explained

Paw Paw Cove Site
Nearest City:Tilghman, Maryland
Added:December 23, 2009
Refnum:09001150

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 500m (1,600feet) 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.[1]

The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. It is owned by Eastern Shore Land Conservancy.

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Notes and References

  1. The Paw Paw Cove PaleoIndian Complex Site, Talbot County, Maryland. Lowery. Darrin. Archaeology of Eastern North America. 17. Fall 1989. 40914310.