Archaeological site in southeastern Virginia, United States
Cactus Hill is an archaeological site in southeastern Virginia, United States, located on sand dunes above the Nottoway River about 45 miles south of Richmond. The site receives its name from the prickly pear cacti that can be found growing abundantly on-site in the sandy soil. Cactus Hill may be one of the oldest archaeological sites in the Americas. If proven to have been inhabited 16,000 to 20,000 years ago, it would provide supporting evidence for pre-Clovis occupation of the Americas.[1] The site has yielded multiple levels of prehistoric inhabitance with two discrete levels of early Paleo-Indian activity.
^Johnson, Michael F. (11 July 2012). "Cactus Hill Archaeological Site". Encyclopedia Virginia. Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. Retrieved 2 January 2014.
CactusHill is an archaeological site in southeastern Virginia, United States, located on sand dunes above the Nottoway River about 45 miles south of...
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and sketches. Shortridge died in 1893. Belle Hunt was born in 1858, at CactusHill, Texas, near Decatur, Texas. She was the first child of European ancestry...
blade implements and several small, cylindrical polyhedral cores. At CactusHill in Virginia, similar points have been found, where they are dubbed as...
from intact buried deposits. As of 2005, only one other Clovis site (CactusHill) on the Atlantic Coastal Plain had been excavated. The hillside is a...
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has evidence of occupancy dating back from 16,000 to 19,000 years ago. CactusHill in southern Virginia, with artifacts such as unfluted bifacial stone...
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of the Americas and by extension the American Southeast took place. CactusHill near Richmond, Virginia may be one of the oldest archaeological sites...
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when they first arrived. In 1856, he purchased 320 acres of land near CactusHill, and moved his family there. He later purchased more land on Denton Creek...
excavations at CactusHill, however, have challenged those dates with hard evidence of far earlier habitation within the state. The CactusHill site is located...
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