Lamoreau Site

	Lamoreau Site
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	Auburn, Maine
NRHP reference No.	89000837
Added to NRHP	July 13, 1989

The Lamoreau Site, also known as the Maine Archaeological Survey Site 23.13 is a Precontact Native American archaeological site in Auburn, Maine. It is located on the grounds of the Auburn/Lewiston Municipal Airport.^[2] The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.^[1] It is named for its discoverer, Henry Lamoreau.^[3]

Description

The Lamoreau Site is one of a number of archaeological sites found on the property of Auburn/Lewiston Municipal Airport, or on adjacent commercial properties. Several of them were completely excavated and destroyed by subsequent construction of airport infrastructure. This site is located on the banks of Moose Brook in an outlying area of the airport. It is a habitation site, located across the brook from one of the airport's most important sites, the Michaud Site, which was one of those destroyed.^[4] The geography of the two sites is similar, consisting of a sandy plain formed by the withdrawal of glaciers about 10,000 years ago. The sand was then blown to produce dunes, among which the prehistoric occupants lived.^[3]

The site was formally investigated in the 1980s, and the principal finds are stone artifacts. These include fluted projectile points, waste from stone tool work (debitage), and small channel scrapers. Most of these materials are made from stone that is either rhyolite from Mount Jasper in New Hampshire, or Munsungan chert from northern Maine.^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
^ "Runway 4-22 Safety Area and Extension Study" (PDF). Auburn/Lewiston Municipal Airport. Retrieved August 25, 2014.
^ ^a ^b Bourque, Bruce (2004). Twelve Thousand Years: American Indians in Maine. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press. pp. 27–29. ISBN 9780803213104.
^ ^a ^b Chapdelaine, Claude (2012). Late Pleistocene Archaeology and Ecology in the Far Northeast. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press. pp. 103–105. ISBN 9781603448055.

[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.

[2] "Runway 4-22 Safety Area and Extension Study" (PDF). Auburn/Lewiston Municipal Airport. Retrieved August 25, 2014.

[Bourque-3] Bourque, Bruce (2004). Twelve Thousand Years: American Indians in Maine. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press. pp. 27–29. ISBN 9780803213104.

[Chapdelaine-4] Chapdelaine, Claude (2012). Late Pleistocene Archaeology and Ecology in the Far Northeast. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press. pp. 103–105. ISBN 9781603448055.

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