Abstract

Since Stan Wortner discovered the Nettling site north of Lake Erie in 1965, extensive survey has shown that initial Early Archaic (ca. 9000 BP) Palmer-like Nettling points occur over an area of about 70,000 km2, centered roughly on modem Lake Erie. Four base camps, each at least as intense as the Nettling site itself, each of which have yielded at least 200 points and 200 endscrapers, have been identified within a 10, 000 km2 tract in north-central Ohio, south of the western end of Lake Erie. They are 1) the Trapp locality at the upper rapids of the Sandusky River, 2) the Chapman locality on the Sandusky River near the mouth of Sycamore Creek, 3) the Demuth locality on the west branch of the Huron River, and 4) the Fulk locality at the Savannah Lakes, a glacial kettle complex at the head of the Vermilion River.