Canfield Island Site

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The Canfield Iceland site, also known as Archeological Site 36LY37, is an archaeological place in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania in the United States. The archaeological site is located on Canfield Iceland in the West Branch Susquehanna River, 7 east of Williamsport in Loyalsock Township. It is assumed that the area of pre-Columbian Indians was settled for thousands of years; The oldest artifacts date back to the second millennium BC.

Geography

Canfield Iceland is a 8.5 -hectare artificial island that originated at the beginning of the 20th century by digging a drainage channel on the west bank of the West Branch Susquehanna River. Today, this trench forms the northern shore of the island, the river is located on the south side. 2, 6, 7 Much of the island was plowed in time historically known and used for agricultural purposes, but an essential part of the island is now covered by forest. Regularly the flow material has been deposited on the island. 2

Archaeological investigations

The fact that the island is a potential archaeological site, was the result of a preliminary investigation, which was conducted by a group of members of the Society for Pennsylvania Archaeology 1958. In 1960 and performed periodically until 1980, brought excavations a number of artifacts to light, who had been up to 15 m below the surface;: 2, 3 lying on the surface artifacts were scattered all over the island: 7 since 1980. investigations have occasionally been continued around 2003 by a group from Lycoming College in Williamsport.

The excavations have led to discoveries of artifacts from a set of archaeological phases, which was more complete than in most comparable sites in Pennsylvania. Although ceramics in this place infrequently, while the presence of charcoal from a long series of phases provided a basis for the determination of charcoal that has been found in many other places in Pennsylvania. Another important discovery was the discovery of a number of large furnaces under a large number of fishing nets, which has led to the theory that Iceland Canfield served fisheries. 3

The archaeological investigations led to the conclusion that Canfield Iceland was settled during the Late Archaic period about 3000 years ago. Although 3 An identified at the lowest point of the excavations found object can not be dated exactly, but probably dates from the early archaic period. Different phases of the Woodland period are represented on the island, and there is evidence for settlement by the Susquehannock, : 3 to the east of today's Pennsylvania still inhabited after the Europeans arrived in the region.

Canfield Iceland was taken in 1982 because of the volume of archaeological finds and the possibility of further discoveries in the future in the National Register of Historic Places. The island is now part of Riverfront Park, which includes also an archaeological nature trail on the island.