Ekdahl–Goudreau Site

Ekdahl–Goudreau Site
Location: Address Restricted (Seul Choix Point, Schoolcraft County, Michigan)
Area: 2 acres (0.81 ha)
Governing body: Private
NRHP Reference#: 78003099[1]
Added to NRHP: November 16, 1978

The Ekdahl–Goudreau Site is an archaelogical site located just west of Seul Choix Point in Schoolcraft County, Michigan.[2] It is also known as the Ekdahl–Goodreau Site or the Seul Choix site.[3] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.[1]

History

The Ekdahl-Goudreau Site was discovered by George I. Quimby and James R. Getz in 1962.[4] In 1965, Earl J. Prahl returned to the site to perform further excavation.[5] Pottery artifacts date the site to the Late Woodland period.[4]

Description

The Ekdahl-Goudreau Site is located above a small natural harbor among sloping beds of limestone along the shore of Lake Michigan.[4] The harbor is about 200 feet long and slightly less in width, with a sloping sand beach on the landward side. The site is located a few hundred feet back from the harbor and 20 feet above the waterline, on a level sandy area.[4]

Debris, consisiting of pottery sherds, flints, and fragments of copper artifacts, were spread over an extensive area, likely by the wind.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2010-07-09. http://nrhp.focus.nps.gov/natreg/docs/All_Data.html. 
  2. ^ H. R. CRANE; JAMES B. GRIFFIN (1972), "UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN RADIOCARBON DATES XIV", RADIOCARBON 14 (1): 155-194, https://journals.uair.arizona.edu/index.php/radiocarbon/article/view/309  This site is listed in the NRIS as "address restricted." The citation gives degree-minute geolocation of site, which locates it approximately as on Seul Choix Point. Binford and Quimby locate the site as "just west of Seul Choix Point."
  3. ^ William A Lovis (Spring 2001), "Clay effigy representations of the bear and Mishipishu: Algonquian iconography from the late woodland Johnson site, northern lower Michigan", Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology 26 (1), http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3904/is_200104/ai_n8931522/ 
  4. ^ a b c d e Lewis R. Binford; George I. Quimby (August 29, 1963), "INDIAN SITES AND CHIPPED STONE MATERIALS IN THE NORTHERN LAKE MICHIGAN AREA", FIELDIANA ANTHROPOLOGY (12): 277-307, http://cluster.biodiversitylibrary.org/i/indiansiteschipp3612binf/indiansiteschipp3612binf.pdf 
  5. ^ James Edward Fitting (1975), The archaeology of Michigan: a guide to the prehistory of the Great Lakes Region, Cranbrook Institute of Science, p. 276 
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