This summer (2007) Chippewa
Nature Center is considering expanding their Visitor Center. As part of
the expansion plans, the Oxbow Archaeologists are currently salvaging areas of
the Naugle site that will likely be impacted by the new construction.
Prior to the construction of CNC's Visitor Center in 1974, volunteer
archaeologists, under Fel Brunett's direction, conducted salvage excavations.
This work was published by Doreen Ozker in 1976 (Doreen Ozker, "The Naugle Site
(20MD30), Midland County, Michigan: Early Late Woodland and Late Archaic
Components on a Pine River Site," The Michigan Archaeologist Vol.
22, No. 4, pp. 315-355).
In February 2009 we received a
request for information about Onondaga chert on Michigan sites and what it
looked like. This link will take you to a page with six artifacts made
from Onondaga chert that were found in the 1973-1974 excavations at the Naugle
site:
The links on this page will
take you to our weekly updates of the salvage excavations at the Naugle site.
The photo gallery shows some of the artifacts we are finding.
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Hafted Knife found on August 4, 2007
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Notched Point, unit 1S-19E
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Triangular Point, 1S-18E
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Triangular point, unit 1S-21E
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Point tip, unit 1S-20E
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"Gouge," unit 2S-23E
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Endscraper, unit 1S-20E
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Endscraper, unit 1S-21E
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Quartzite Utilized Flake
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Chippewa Nature Center and the Oxbow Archaeologists.
