Site Constructed 17 June, 2002
Revised July 2, 2003
Archaeologists and Web Designers
The Cloverdale archaeological site (23BN2) is an important multi-component site near St. Jospeh, Missouri with both Kansas City Hopewell (ca. AD 100 to 500) and Steed Kisker (ca. AD 1200) occupation. It is situated at the mouth of a small valley that opens into the Missouri River Valley.
This website is designed for use by school children, amateur archaeologists and professional archaeologists. Most of this very significant site has been protected and is on State managed property. The site is forested and not open for artifact collecting or unscientific excavation.
Mike Fisher (President Emeritus of the Missouri Archaeological Society) and Margaret Fisher have a carefully catalogued surface collection of the Cloverdale site that they made when the site was privately owned and under active cultivation. They generously allowed their collection to be studied by Professor Michael Fuller (St. Louis Community College). Digital images of approximately 50 artifacts from their collection can be viewed by clicking on the linked words in the frame. Most of the artifacts documented by Professor Fuller relate to the Mississippian occupation of the site. The numerous Cahokia points found at the Cloverdale Site leads to an interesting possibility that it was at least an active trade partner with Cahokia or that Cloverdale may have functioned as a Cahokia outpost/border town.
A brief report of the Cloverdale Site was published in 1972 by J. Mett Shippee in the Missouri Archaeological Society Research Series number 9. You can read his report by clicking on the link to his name.