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United States historic place
Klock Site
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Nearest cityEphratah, New York
Area4 acres (1.6 ha)
NRHP reference No.80002614
Added to NRHPJuly 22, 1980

Klock Site is an archaeological site located at Ephratah in Fulton County, New York. It is also known as Las. 8-4, New York State Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation Unique Site No. A035-04-0005. It is one of three Mohawk Indian village sites excavated by archaeologist Robert E. Funk in 1969-1970.

The site has been dated to 1540–1565. The National Register listing gives a size of 2.3 hectares (5.7 acres), but the actual village area has been estimated at 1.2 hectares (3.0 acres), containing the remains of ten longhouses, housing around 720–900 people.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

References

  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. Funk, Robert E. and Robert D. Kuhn (2003). Three Sixteenth-Century Mohawk Iroquois Village Sites (book) (Museum Bulletin 503 ed.). New York State Museum, Albany NY. pp. 482pp. ISBN 1-55557-147-6.
  3. Snow, Dean (1995). Mohawk Valley Archaeology: The Sites (PDF). Matson Museum of Archaeology, Penn State University. ISBN 0-9647913-0-7. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 14, 2017. Retrieved May 2, 2016.
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