At this site approximately 7500 years ago early Wisconsin Indians gathered to bury their dead. They were of the Old Copper Culture, the earliest known people to inhabit Wisconsin. Their dead were interred in graves or cremated in basin-shaped pits. Implements of copper, stone, bone and shell were buried with them. Ranking among the world's first metal-smiths, these people hammered native copper into tools and weapons. During this archaic period, sustenance was gained by hunting, fishing and collecting wild foods. Agriculture was unknown to them. Bark or skin containers were used instead of pottery. Scientific excavations were conducted here by the Wisconsin Archaeological Survey and the Oconto County Historical Society in 1952 soon after the site was discovered and its importance recognized. At the time of the discover it was found to be the oldest manifestation of human beings in all northeastern North America east of the Mississippi River.

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