The Muttock-Pauwating Site
The Muttock-Pauwating site is located in the town of Middleboro in southeastern Massachusetts. The project area was slated to be developed into house lots, but the downturn in the economy put that plan on hold. Subsequently the site has been found to be so large and so unique, that the town is currently (2018) trying to preserve it in perpetuity. The exact location of the site will not be disclosed on this site due to its unique nature, but I have attempted to provide as much information about what we discovered, as possible.
We identified over 1500 postmolds that often showed us the outlines of the houses they once anchored. We recovered over 56,000 artifacts (although most were discarded flakes from the manufacture of stone tools, or pieces of charcoal, or pieces of burned rock), which included hundreds of projectile points and tools. We also found numerous storage and cache pits which have led us to propose a ritual of “opening and closing” of individual homesites each season they were occupied.
Paleoecological Reconstruction
Data Recovery Fieldwork Results
Research Question: Concept of Villages in Southeastern Massachusetts
Research Question: Concentration Analysis
Research Question: Native House Forms
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