Rodgers Shelter Archeological Site Explained

Rodgers Shelter Archeological Site
Nearest City:Right bank of the Pomme de Terre River, 5 miles (8.0 km) by road southwest of Fristoe, Missouri[1]
Coordinates:38.0928°N -93.3453°W
Added:June 23, 1969
Refnum:69000090

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.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1969.

Further reading

Notes and References

  1. Ahler, Stanley A. "Post-Pleistocene Depositional Change at Rodgers Shelter, Missouri". Plains Anthropologist 18.59 (1973): 1-26: 2.
  2. Web site: 23BE125 - Rodgers Shelter . 2016-09-01. Michael Fuller. April 2011. St. Louis Community College.