Phillips (18DO70)
Site History
The Phillips site (18DO70) is a Paleoindian short-term resource procurement camp on the Chesapeake Bay in Dorchester County, Maryland. A late period precontact occupation is also in this location.
Archaeological Investigations
There have been no known archaeological investigations at this site. The evidence for this site comes from reporting by an avocational archaeologist who collected the site for several decades. Artifacts from the site in his collection include a Middle Paleo point of light brown jasper, as well as jasper scrapers, bifaces, and flaked tools. The lithic material from which the artifacts are manufactured is Iron Hill Jasper from the Newark area of Delaware.
A late period precontact occupation is also located in a portion of this field. Other collectors who have found hundreds of projectile points and other stone artifacts that span the Paleoindian through Late Woodland period.
The site was visited by archaeologist Darrin L. Lowery in 2018, but rip-rapping and bulkhead construction there have made the archaeological remains inaccessible.
References
2019 Recent coastal erosion and late Holocene sea level rise impacts on archaeological resources within the Honga River, Dorchester County, Maryland. (Chesapeake Watershed Archaeological Research Foundation, Inc.) MHT # DO 79.
1994 "The Meekins Neck Paleoindian Site Complex, Dorchester County, Maryland: A Development of a Paleoindian Settlement Model for the Delmarva Peninsula." Maryland Archeology 30(2):29-36.
Associated Artifacts
Middle Paleo Point
