Shoop Site (designated 33DA20) is a prehistoric

archaeological site An archaeological site is a place (or group of physical sites) in which evidence of past activity is preserved (either prehistoric or recorded history, historic or contemporary), and which has been, or may be, investigated using the discipline ...

in Jackson Township and Wayne Township,

Dauphin County, Pennsylvania Dauphin County (; Pennsylvania Dutch language, Pennsylvania Dutch: Daffin Kaundi) is a County (United States), county in the Commonwealth (U.S. state), Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the populati ...

. It is the site of a large

Paleoindian Paleo-Indians were the first peoples who entered and subsequently inhabited the Americas towards the end of the Late Pleistocene period. The prefix ''paleo-'' comes from . The term ''Paleo-Indians'' applies specifically to the lithic period in ...

campsite, dated to 9,000-9,500 BCE. It was first discovered in the 1930s by George Gordon, and also studied by Frank Soday who later discovered the

Quad site The Quad site is a series of Paleoindian sites and localities in Limestone County near Decatur, Alabama. It was first reported by Frank Soday in 1954, and later findings were also documented by James Cambron, David Hulse and Joe Wright and Cambro ...

. ''Note:'' This includes In the decades since its discovery, the site has yielded approximately 7,000 artifacts scattered over at least 37 acres for

lithic analysis In archaeology, lithic analysis is the analysis of stone tools and other chipped stone artifacts using basic scientific techniques. At its most basic level, lithic analyses involve an analysis of the artifact's morphology, the measurement of v ...

. Additionally, there is a large number of “astoundingly reworked” fluted

Projectile points In archaeological terminology, a projectile point is an object that was hafted to a weapon that was capable of being thrown or projected, such as a javelin, dart, or arrow. They are thus different from weapons presumed to have been kept in the ...

and endscrapers, and fully 98% of the artifacts are made from a lithic material that originates hundreds of miles away. It was added to the

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in 1986.

References

Archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania Geography of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania History of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania National Register of Historic Places in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania {{DauphinCountyPA-NRHP-stub