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Submitted by bat400 on Tuesday, 15 September 2015  Page Views: 15426

Multi-periodSite Name: Big Eddy Alternative Name: Big Eddy Site
Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 55.45 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: The Plains Type: Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry
Nearest Town: Springfield, MO  Nearest Village: Stockton, MO
Latitude: 37.739300N  Longitude: 93.78767W
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.
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1 Ambience:
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3Ordinary
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3 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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Big Eddy
Big Eddy submitted by Flickr : The leftward-pointing base of a St. Johns variety San Patrice point that I excavated at the Big Eddy site in SW Missouri in 2005. This unit proved to be pretty "hot." I'm positive there were gobs of useful artifacts in the meter-plus-thick 2 meter x 2 meter unit that I excavated. I began digging in the early Archaic deposits and finished in PreClovis deposits. I actually found a chert geofact that... (Vote or comment on this photo)
Occupation and chert collection at Big Eddy Shoals, Cedar County, MO. The bend at Big Eddy Shoals was recurrent, seasonal settlement area for Paleo-Indian, Archaic, and Woodland era peoples along the Sac River. Stone tools found on site may date back to 12600 BC, predating the earliest Clovis artifacts.

The area would have held attraction for ancient peoples as a source of chert and abundant plants and animals.

Erosion caused by the large volumes of water released from the nearby Stockton Dam for power generation relentlessly eats away the bank. The prime site at the bend in the river will be completely destroyed within 12-15 years.

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the University of Missouri and
the Center for the Study of the First Americans.


Note: The Ninth Annual Ozarks Studies Symposium, September 18/19th, West Plains Missouri, features a talk on this important pre-Clovis site
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Big Eddy
Big Eddy submitted by Flickr : The main excavation block at the Big Eddy site in SW Missouri. This was the 2005 project. Image copyright: ackittiwack, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Big Eddy
Big Eddy submitted by Flickr : Sac River, Caplinger Mills (within a few miles of but not at the Big Eddy) Looking north from the bridge. Image copyright: Ebenezer89, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Big Eddy
Big Eddy submitted by Flickr : Dalton/San Patrice knapping pile at the Big Eddy site in SW Missouri on the date indicated by the chalkboard. The trowel indicates the proximal portion of a vertically-oriented San Patrice point. Image copyright: ackittiwack, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Video: "Big Eddy" site on the Sac River in Missouri by Andy B on Tuesday, 15 September 2015
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"Big Eddy" site on the Sac River in Missouri. Over 14,000 years of occupation being protected by the Corps of Engineers and excavated by Missouri State University. Neil Lopinot and Jack Ray, archaeologists, explain their findings. One of a series of short videos about the area accessible on an interactive touchscreen in the visitor center lobby.

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See also: Pre-Clovis sites on the Portal by Andy B on Tuesday, 15 September 2015
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See also: Pre-Clovis sites on the Portal
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=Forum&file=viewtopic&topic=1873&forum=1
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Ninth Annual Ozarks Studies Symposium, September 18/19th, West Plains Missouri by Andy B on Tuesday, 15 September 2015
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September 18–19,
Ninth Annual Ozarks Studies Symposium (West Plains)
Sponsored by Missouri State University-West Plains and the West Plains Council on the Arts, the theme of this symposium is "The Lure of the Ozarks."
This broad theme is intended to accommodate a wide variety of topics related
to why people have been attracted to the Ozarks and the outcomes of this attraction. Among the several presenters are Jack Ray who will present The Big Eddy Site: A Deep, Stratified, Multicomponent Site in the Sac River Valley of Southwest Missouri and Neal Lopinot who will present Open and Sheltered Sites: Late Prehistoric Adaptations along the Western Flanks of the Ozarks
Redbud and Gohn Rooms, West Plains Civic Center, 110 St Louis St
Contact: Phillip Howerton, PhillipHowerton@MissouriState.edu

Part of Missouri Archaeology Month
http://associations.missouristate.edu/mas/archaeologymonth.html
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Missouri artifacts eaten away by flooding by bat400 on Monday, 04 December 2006
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Listing edited for exact location. Click on Flash Earth and switch between the offered aerial views to see not only the progression of the dig, but also the changes in errosion, as earth is torn from the northern bank and deposits build on the southern bank of the Sac River.
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Race to save Missouri artifacts from flooding. by bat400 on Friday, 10 November 2006
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Submitted by fwbrown on Tuesday, 30 August 2005.
Sites under Threat:
At one of the oldest sites of human habitation in the Western Hemisphere, archeologists have worked the Big Eddy Dig site since 1997. The site will be washed away when lake water is released for electricity generation. So they're letting members of the public and volunteer amateurs dig to help their excavation.

From member station KSMU, Missy Shelton Belote reports."

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