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<< Text Pages >> Cactus Hill - Ancient Village or Settlement in United States

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Multi-periodSite Name: Cactus Hill
Country: United States Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Carson, Virginia
Latitude: 37.035000N  Longitude: 77.395W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
no data Ambience:
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4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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no data Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
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Ancient Habitation Site in Sussex County, Virginia.
Some of the earliest evidence of man in the western hemisphere has been found here in the form of a stone blades and a possible hearth. Cactus Hill is a buried multicomponent site on the coastal plain of the Nottaway River in Sussex County, Virginia. in addition to Archaic and Clovis occupations, below the Clovis and separated by sterile sand, is an apparent pre-Clovis occupation. Carbon dated to 13000 BC.

The artifacts lie below a layer of sterile sand and Clovis type tools, dated to a later period. Radiocarbon dates on wood from the pre-Clovis level calibrated to ca. 18,200-22,000 years ago. Luminescence dates taken on feldspar and quartzite grains in the various levels of the site agree, almost entirely, with the radiocarbon assays and suggest that the site stratigraphy is primarily intact and has been little affected by movement of artefacts down through the sterile sand. However, as more pre-Clovis sites are discovered these issues seem less compelling.
Joseph McAvoy's Nottoway River Survey (NRS) was the discoverer of the find. Excavations by McAvoy indicate the pre-Clovis level has a stone tool assemblage with heavy percentages of quartzite blades, and pentagular (five-sided) projectile points.

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(Portions of the top-most description slightly paraphrased from article at "About.com")
(Summarized from information published at the websites of the Natural Museum of History and researcher J. McAvoy: http://www.jrwcc.com/nrs/index.html)
The site is on private property and is not accessible. The location given is for the closest town, Carson. The Cactus Hill sites lies along the Nottoway River.

Note: Location given is the nearby town of Carson. Site is not accessible at this time.
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