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Modoc Rock Shelter is a site significant for its archaeological evidence of the culture of Archaic Indians in the Eastern United States. Evidence from the site, including four seaparate periods of Archaic occupation and one of prehistoric Indians of a later period, suggests that the cultures of the Indians in the Eastern Woodlands may have been comparable in age to the big game hunting cultures of the Great Plains. It is basically a rock overhang, someplace to get out of the rain, more open than a cave, but better than nothing.
It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1961.
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