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Radiocarbon Dates from the Manakaway Site, Connecticut

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Robert C. Suggs
Robert C. Suggs*
Affiliation:
Columbia University New York, N.Y.
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The Manakaway site, situated at the tip of Greenwich Point in Greenwich, Connecticut, is a shell midden about 40 by 120 feet in extent, with a depth of about 20 inches. It was excavated by the author during a 3-month period in the summer of 1956 (Suggs 1956a, 1956b).

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American Antiquity , Volume 23 , Issue 4 , April 1958 , pp. 432 - 433
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1958

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