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.[2]

Klock Site
Nearest cityEphratah, New York
Area4 acres (1.6 ha)
NRHP reference No.80002614[1]
Added to NRHPJuly 22, 1980

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.[3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.[1]

References edit

  1. ^ a b "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.