In This Place...

With the end of the last ice age, Delaware Bay formed as melting glaciers to the north caused sea level rise. Sea levels were 100 feet lower, and the coastline was 60-80 miles farther east than today. About 10,000 years ago, the landscape and climate in this area looked and felt different from today. As the glaciers retreated, native people moved into the Delmarva peninsula, living in [unreadable] and using stone-tipped spears to hunt a variety of game animals. These included [unreadable], woolly mammoth, and musk ox, as well as bear, moose, [unreadable], elk, and deer. Stone-age tools used by Paleo-Indian people on Delmarva for hunting and processing game included projectile points and scraper tools.

Delaware · United States