Newt Kash Hollow (15Mf1)

Webb and Funkhouser’s 1930s digs, then Volney Jones’s ethnobotany, recovered matting, grass bedding, squash, sunflower, goosefoot, and sumpweed—some of the earliest clear domesticates from a Kentucky shelter, occupied intensively around 3,000 years ago. Later readings treat the fiber, cradleboard, mortar, and medicinal plants as a possible women’s retreat and medicine place, not just a hunter’s overnight stop.