Paleo Crossing site

Paleo Crossing site
Paleo Crossing site is located in Ohio
Paleo Crossing site
Paleo Crossing site is located in the United States
Paleo Crossing site
LocationNorthwest of the junction of Ridgewood and State Roads, Sharon Township, Medina County, Ohio (private)
Nearest citySharon Center, Ohio
Coordinates41°7′19.92″N 81°43′13.22″W / 41.1222000°N 81.7203389°W / 41.1222000; -81.7203389
NRHP reference No.92000972[1]
Added to NRHPJuly 30, 1992

Paleo Crossing site, also known as the Old Dague Farm site,[2] is an archaeological site near Sharon Center, Ohio in Medina County where Clovis artifacts dated to 10,980 BP ± 75 years Before Present were found.[3] The Cleveland Museum of Natural History conducted an excavation from 1990 to 1993.[4] The site provides evidence of Paleo-Indians in northern Ohio and may be the area's oldest residents and archaeologist Dr. David Brose believes that they may be "some of the oldest certain examples of human activity in the New World."[5] The site contains charcoal recovered from refuse pits. There were also two post holes and blades and tools 80% of which were made from flint (Wyandotte chert) from the Ohio River Valley in Indiana, 500 miles from Paleo Crossing, which indicates that the hunter-gatherers had a widespread social network and traveled across distances relatively quickly.[5] The post holes are evidence that there was a shelter built on the site.

The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 30, 1992.[1]

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. ^ "National Register of Historical Places - OHIO (OH), Medina County". www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com. Retrieved January 27, 2020.
  3. ^ MILLER, G. LOGAN, "ILLUMINATING ACTIVITIES AT PALEO CROSSING (33ME274) THROUGH MICROWEAR ANALYSIS", Lithic Technology, vol. 38, no. 2, pp. 97–108, 2013
  4. ^ Brose, David S., "Archaeological Investigations at Paleo Crossing Site, a Paleoindian occupation in Medina County, Ohio. In The First Discovery of America, by W. S. Dancey, pp. 61-76. The Ohio Archaeological Council, Columbus Ohio, 1994
  5. ^ a b "Paleo Crossing: Clues to Ohio's Earliest Residents". Explore Member Magazine. Vol. 3, no. 2. Summer 2015. Retrieved January 27, 2020 – via Cleveland Museum of Natural History.