The Agate Basin Site is a Paleoindian archeological site in Niobrara County, Wyoming. The location was discovered by William H. Spencer of Spencer, Wyoming in 1916, who found well-preserved stone blades and points in Moss Agate Arroyo. In 1941 Spencer mentioned the find to Robert E. Frison, a deputy game warden at Newcastle

Newcastle, Wyoming

Newcastle is a city in and the county seat of Weston County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 3,065 at the 2000 census.- Geography :Newcastle is located at...

, who visited the site and contacted Dr. Frank H.H. Roberts of the Bureau of American Ethnology at the Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Institution

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. Roberts visited the site in 1942, but it would not be until 1959 that a full investigation began by the University of Wyoming

University of Wyoming

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 on what proved to be a buffalo kill site. Further investigation took place under the direction of Dr. George C. Frison.

The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places

National Register of Historic Places

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in 1974.

External links

• Agate Basin Site at the Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office