The Geology of Long Island Sound

Preliminary Starch Grain Evidence of Ancient Stone Tool Use at the Early Archaic (9,000 B.P.) Site of Sandy Hill, Mashantucket, Connecticut

“…For example, the Long Island Sound basin, located approximately 10 kilometers south of Sandy Hill, hosted a relatively stable and potentially rich estuarine body during the 9 th millennium B.P. (Lewis 1995;McMaster and Garrison 1967). Though sea level rise has deeply submerged this ancient environment, future starch grain analysis at Sandy Hill may help confirm its exploitation.…”