Vessel

Owasco Corded Horizontal Style Delaware-Munsee

Owasco is the name for the proto-Iroquoian cultures of the upper Susquehanna and Delaware Rivers in Pennsylvania. Archeologists often name earlier cultures after areas in and around archeological sites. Owasco is named after a series of archeological sites near Lake Owasco in central New York state. This vessel was recovered from an archeological site within the Minisink National Historic Landmark in Sussex County, NJ. It dates to the Late Woodland period when the cultures that occupied the floodplain maintained their subsistence through agriculture.