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[H2O Man]

found five large white shark's teeth at the largest Hunter's Home phase site in the United States. Known as the White Site, this woodland site was found half way between the Chenango and Unadilla Rivers, outside of Norwich, NY. The site is covered in detail in the single best book on northeastern archaeology, William Ritchie's "The Archaeology of New York State." See pages 253 - 261 for the White Site report; three of the shark's teeth can be seen on page 257 (item 4). A textile fragment; effigy pipes; several hundred projectile points; pendants; maskettes; pottery; and celts were also found there. In the mid-1980s, I excavated a small rock shelter/cave a few miles away with artifacts including a layer that matched the White Site inventory; it was clearly a related site that overlooked the intersection of two waterways. And a few miles away, another friend excavated a rock shelter with related artifacvts, including seven small, dark sharks' teeth. The projectile points that followed the Levanna type, known as Madison points, frequently look just like a shark tooth. It's interesting to find them around here, as we are pretty far from the ocean!