Dedic Site

	Dedic Site
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	View of South Deerfield from Mount Sugarloaf
Nearest city	South Deerfield, Massachusetts
NRHP reference No.	80000504
Added to NRHP	July 16, 1980

The DEDIC or DEDIC/Sugarloaf Site is a paleo-Indian Clovis-era archaeological site in South Deerfield, Massachusetts. It encompasses an area of the Connecticut and Deerfield River valleys containing evidence of relatively large-scale human habitation dating back 10,000 years. It is located in the general vicinity of Mount Sugarloaf.

The site has yielded stone artifacts such as scrapers, drills, hammerstones, and a stone bead, with the source stone material coming from a variety of locations across New England.^[2] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.^[1]

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^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
^ "PALEOINDIAN OCCUPATION IN THE NEW ENGLAND-MARITIMES REGION: BEYOND CULTURAL ECOLOGY". Archaeology of Eastern North America (Volume 26). 1998. JSTOR 40897757. {{cite journal}}: |issue= has extra text (help)

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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.

[2] "PALEOINDIAN OCCUPATION IN THE NEW ENGLAND-MARITIMES REGION: BEYOND CULTURAL ECOLOGY". Archaeology of Eastern North America (Volume 26). 1998. JSTOR 40897757. {{cite journal}}: |issue= has extra text (help)

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