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Sloan Site

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The Sloan Site is an archaeological site near Crowley’s Ridge in Arkansas which is recognized for being among the oldest documented cemeteries in the New World.[1][2] The site contained Paleo-Indian Dalton graves with bone fragments and artifacts.[3][4] It dates to about 12,000 years ago. The site was excavated by Dan Morse in 1974 and a results were originally published in 1997.[5][6]

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  1. ^ "Sloan Site". Encyclopedia of Arkansas. 2017-10-26. Retrieved 2017-12-26.
  2. ^ Wesson, Cameron B. (2004-10-19). Historical Dictionary of Early North America. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780810865518.
  3. ^ "Sloan Site Photo Gallery – Supplement to the print publication "Sloan: A Paleoindian Dalton Cemetery in Arkansas" by Dan F. Morse". Archeology.uark.edu. Retrieved 2017-12-26.
  4. ^ Field Notes: Monthly Newsletter of the Arkansas Archeological Society. The Society. 1994.
  5. ^ Morse, Dan. Sloan: A Paleoindian Dalton Cemetery in Arkansas. Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997.
  6. ^ Bense, Judith A. (2016-09-16). Archaeology of the Southeastern United States: Paleoindian to World War I. Routledge. ISBN 9781315433790.