Walker Gilmore site

Near Murray, Nebraska, the Walker Gilmore Site preserves deeply layered evidence of repeated prehistoric occupation on a terrace above Sterns Creek. First formally investigated in 1915 after Walker Gilmore brought it to Frederick Sterns's attention, it became the type site for the Sterns Creek focus, the first Woodland-period culture identified in Nebraska, and the first site in the state to reveal a pre-village culture. Excavations found lodge remains, tools, pottery, and plant and animal remains that illuminate daily life, while radiocarbon dates show occupation lasting as late as 1100 CE. Later work connected its inhabitants to Woodland cultures of the northeastern United States.

Nebraska · United States