lifeways and locations. The evidence is inter-woven geographically to identify significant clusters, weigh the comparative diversity of archaeological artifacts and features, and trace apparent inter-relationships and divisions of labor. Indicators of sedentism, settlement and subsistence are used to identify likely locations of habitation and connected resource sites. 

The principal findings are that: 

(I) 

no eyewitnesses exist for the old tale that the county's coastal areas had a mostly temporary population that made summer treks from the Delaware Valley; 



(2) these area7 were well-suited for year-round life by the Lenape; 



(3) 

the density, volume and variety of data about LRnape life and locations are enough, by themselves, to confirm a substantial native presence; and 



(4) 

at least eight probable habitations are identified and documented, and likely patterns of land use and subsistence patterns are hypothesized in detail for two of them. 





The conclusions are that earlier ideas about limited coastal settlement were based on historical, archaeological and ecological misconceptions, that the coastal zone was regularly inhabited by relatively sedentary population up to early colonial times, and that two sets of Lenape people seemed to have two different settlement strategies along the Delaware River and along the coast. 

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