Welling site

The Welling site in Coshocton County, Ohio, was an important Paleo-Indian locality on the edge of the Walhonding River Valley, valued for its nearby Upper Mercer flint source. Evidence shows it served not just as a quarry and workshop but also as an outcrop-related base camp where people made tools, processed food and materials, and gathered socially. Excavations in 1965 uncovered 54 fluted Paleo-Indian points and abundant flint debris, showing tool production at many stages. Most tools used local stone, though a few came from Vanport flint, suggesting wider connections. Dating roughly from 10,000 to 11,800 BC, the site preserves evidence of some of the region’s earliest inhabitants and later Archaic reuse.

Warsaw, Ohio · United States