Jiskairumoko (Peru)
Image courtesy of Mark Aldenderfer, PNAS (Copyright 2008).
Jiskairumoko, located in the Rio Ilave drainage of southern Peru, was occupied between 3600 and 1500 BC, spanning the late to terminal Archaic and early Formative periods; and it contains the earliest evidence of gold-working in the Americas.
Keatley Creek (British Columbia, Canada)
Keatley Creek is an important village site, built by hunter-gatherers living near what is today Lilleoot in British Columbia near the Fraser River.
Kennewick (Washington)
Kennewick is the name of a single male adult skeleton dated to the Archaic period, who eroded from the bank of the Columbia River in Washington, and unleashed a storm of controversy.
Koster (Illinois, United States)
The Koster site was found 34 feet below the modern day ground surface of the Koster farm in downstate Illinois, where evidence of 26 different human occupations, beginning with the early Archaic period, around 7500 BC, and ending with the Koster farm.Little Salt Spring (Florida, United States)
Plum Piece (Puerto Rico)
The archaeological site called Plum Piece is a shell midden site on tiny Saba Island in the northern Lesser Antilles east of Puerto Rico, belonging to the Ostoiroid culture of about 3300 years ago.Port au Choix (Newfoundland, Canada)
Port au Choix is an important archaeological site in Newfoundland pertaining to the Subarctic tradition of North America, with village dated to the Dorset culture (between 200 and 600 AD); and a cemetery dated to the Maritime Archaic Tradition (~2000-1200 BC).Poverty Point (Louisiana, United States)
San Blas (Nayarit, Mexico)
San Blas was located near the town of the same name on the Pacific coast of Mexico in Nayarit state. The Matanchén phase (Late Archaic, 2100-1800 BC) site was discovered by Joseph Mountjoy in the 1960s, while it was being destroyed during road construction.
Salts Cave (Kentucky, United States)
Salts Cave is an Archaic period site located within the Mammoth Caves State Park in central Kentucky. The site is knn primarily to archaeologists for the recovery of domesticated squash, sunflower and chenopodium.
