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Superfund Dig Turns Up Thousands Of Indian Artifacts
AP 02/16/2000

KINGWOOD TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) _ This Superfund site yielded a super find.

Excavation at an old chemical facility turned up 3,110 items left there by
American Indians up to 10,000 years ago.

The artifacts included pieces of stone tools, weapons and pottery used by a
Lenape tribe.

"It is the beginning of the history of our area," township historian Sal De
Sapio told The Express-Times of Easton, Pa., for Tuesday's editions. "And it
gives us a clue to what life was like for Native Americans."

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and a Trenton archaeologist
conducted a dig at the DeRewal Chemical Company property after it was
declared a federal Superfund toxic waste cleanup site in the early 1990s.

The eight-acre tract lies along present-day state Route 29 near Frenchtown
in Hunterdon County, about 30 miles northwest of Trenton.

The artifacts were uncovered in a meticulous survey that lasted eight
months. They now have been catalogued, and many are on display at the
township municipal building.

The Lenape tribes, commonly known as the Delawares, were much-traveled
traders and hunters who sought game in the forests and shellfish along the
coastline. Archaeologists believe that the Kingwood site was not a permanent
settlement, but a temporary village used by The Turtle Clan annually for
hundreds of years along the Delaware River, De Sapio said.

Carbon analysis shows that the artifacts date back to between 8000 B.C. and
1600 A.D.

European settlers drove the Lenape out of New Jersey in the 18th century.
 

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