Rodgers Shelter Archeological Site

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Rodgers Shelter Archeological Site
Rodgers Shelter Archeological Site is located in Missouri
Rodgers Shelter Archeological Site
Rodgers Shelter Archeological Site is located in the United States
Rodgers Shelter Archeological Site
Nearest cityRight bank of the Pomme de Terre River, 5 miles (8.0 km) by road southwest of Fristoe, Missouri[2]
Coordinates38°05′34″N 93°20′43″W / 38.09278°N 93.34528°W / 38.09278; -93.34528
Area0 acres (0 ha)
NRHP reference No.69000090[1]
Added to NRHPJune 23, 1969

Rodgers Shelter Archeological Site, also known as the Missouri Archaeological Survey Number 23BE125, is a historic archaeological site located at Warsaw, Benton County, Missouri. It is a terrace level archaeological site along the Pomme de Terre River. The site was excavated by R. Bruce McMillan and Raymond Wood before it was submerged by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers under the water of the Truman Reservoir. The stone tools from the site belong to Late Paleo-Indian (Dalton) Period, Middle Archaic, Late Archaic, and Woodland Period.[3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1969.[1]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ Ahler, Stanley A. "Post-Pleistocene Depositional Change at Rodgers Shelter, Missouri". Plains Anthropologist 18.59 (1973): 1-26: 2.
  3. ^ Michael Fuller (April 2011). "23BE125 - Rodgers Shelter". St. Louis Community College. Retrieved September 1, 2016.

Further reading[edit]

  • Wood, W. Raymond; McMilan, R. Bruce (1976). Prehistoric Man and His Environments: A Case Study in the Ozark Highland. New York: Academic Press. ISBN 1843763419.