Sheriden Cave
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Sheriden Cave is a Paleo-Indian archaeological site from the late Ice age in Wyandot County, Ohio, United States. Glacial deposits sealed off the cave more than 10,000 years ago. Sheriden Cave is a karst sinkhole on a dolomite ridge that crosses Hancock and Wyandot Counties. It is associated with the Indian Trail Caverns that opened in 1927. Sheriden Cave was discovered in 1989. The cave is unique because in addition to stone tools, there were also bone tools, remains of extinct animals, and organic matter found in the cave. Radiocarbon dating of artifacts indicate that they were used 11,000 and 12,000 years ago.
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Location: 40.9807, -83.4448, KML, Cluster Map, Maps,
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Sheriden Cave ⓘ
ice age archaeological site in Ohio, US
- Widespread platinum anomaly documented at the Younger Dryas onset in North American sedimentary sequences - scholarly article, Q1860, 2017, online
- Survival Earth - episode 5 of the Channel 4 series Catastrophe, 2008, online
- Sheriden: A Clovis cave site in eastern North America - scientific article, 1997, online
- Very high-temperature impact melt products as evidence for cosmic airbursts and impacts 12,900 years ago - scholarly article, Q1860, 2012
- Evidence for deposition of 10 million tonnes of impact spherules across four continents 12,800 y ago - scholarly article, Q1860, 2013
- Species Response to the Theorized Clovis Comet Impact at Sheriden Cave, Ohio - article by Brian Redmond and Kenneth Tankersley about the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis, Q1860, 2011
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