Ekdahl–Goudreau Site
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Ekdahl–Goudreau Site | |
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Seul Choix Point | |
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| Location | Address Restricted (Seul Choix Point, Schoolcraft County, Michigan) |
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| Coordinates | 45°55′0″N 85°55′0″W / 45.91667°N 85.91667°WCoordinates: 45°55′0″N 85°55′0″W / 45.91667°N 85.91667°W |
| Area | 2 acres (0.81 ha) |
| NRHP Reference # | 78003099[1] |
| Added to NRHP | November 16, 1978 |
The Ekdahl–Goudreau Site is an archaeological 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, consisting of pottery sherds, flints, and fragments of copper artifacts, were spread over an extensive area, likely by the wind.[4]
References
- 1 2 Staff (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
- ↑ H. R. CRANE; JAMES B. GRIFFIN (1972), "UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN RADIOCARBON DATES XIV", RADIOCARBON 14 (1): 155–194 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."
- ↑ 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)
- 1 2 3 4 5 Lewis R. Binford; George I. Quimby (August 29, 1963), "INDIAN SITES AND CHIPPED STONE MATERIALS IN THE NORTHERN LAKE MICHIGAN AREA" (PDF), Fieldiana Anthropology 36 (12): 277–307
- ↑ 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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