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The Drawyer Creek South Site, a buried prehistoric archaeological site on the shores of an estuary of the Appoquinimink River, lies partially within the proposed State Route 2 corridor in New Castle County, Delaware. Because the site was very well preserved, Berger archaeologists conducted data recovery excavations, following initial survey and site testing evaluation investigations.
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| The Drawyer Creek South Site |
The Drawyer Creek South Site is what archaeologists call a transient site--that is, a site that was occupied for a very brief period of time as prehistoric people traveled, hunting, fishing, and gathering wild plant foods. The site may have been reused over a long period of time, from about 2000 BC until just before Europeans came into the area, during the middle 17th century AD.
Berger archaeologists found the remains of a few meals, the discarded debris from manufacturing stone tools, and evidence of a few hearths used to provide warmth, shelter, and the means to cook fish and game.
Drawyer Creek South provided an excellent opportunity to study the traces of small groups, perhaps as small as a nuclear family, as they moved from one rich estuary habitat to another.
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