The term "South Jersey" is used to refer to the portion of New Jersey that includes Cape May, Cumberland, Salem, Atlantic, Gloucester, and Camden counties.  Burlington and Ocean counties can also be included.

While New Jersey is home to one of the most important Native American sites on the East Coast, The Abbott's Farm Complex, the majority of the state has had few systematic archaeological excavations of sites that date from before European contact (pre-1600s).

However, South Jersey is a vast archaeological resource and many private landowners routine find evidence of past Native activity in the form of axe heads, projectile points (aka arrow heads), and other stone tools.

If you have found material on your property, we hope this website will help you learn more about it.  If you find material on your property in the future, please document it!  The true value of artifacts are not the thing itself but the location, position, soil type, associated material - all the information surrounding the object - that is what archaeologists use to understand the peoples of the past.