Editing Cumberland County, New Jersey (section)

===Pre-settlement===
The first people to populate Cumberland County were early descendants of the [[Lenape]], also known as the Delaware, who include all [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] people who have lived in New Jersey<ref name="Prehistorical Museum">{{cite web |title=Prehistorical Museum |website=Cumberland County Historical Society |language=en-US |url=https://cchistsoc.org/museums-hours/prehistorical-museum/ |access-date=November 15, 2022}}</ref> Water sources such as the [[Cohansey River]] and [[Maurice River]] made Cumberland County a resourceful environment for early native groups to utilize.<ref name="Prehistorical Museum"/> Archaeological materials such as stone tools and pottery have been excavated in sites in Bridgeton and in [[Fairfield Township, Cumberland County, New Jersey|Fairfield]], [[Greenwich Township, Warren County, New Jersey|Greenwich]] and [[Stow Creek Township, New Jersey|Stow Creek]] townships.<ref>Skinner, Alanson and Max Schrabisch, 1913. A Preliminary Report of the Archeological Survey of the State of New Jersey. Bulletin 9, Geological Survey of New Jersey, Trenton. p. 54-57.</ref> Some of the earliest cultures that inhabited Cumberland County utilized clovis spear points which date to the Paleoindian period (10,000 BC to 8000 BC). As the climate switched from a tundra to woodlands during the archaic period (8000 BC to 1000 BC), ancestors of the Lenape developed axe technology, and later pottery during the woodland period (1000 BC to 1600 AD).<ref>{{cite book |last=Kraft |first=Herbert |title=The Lenape-Delaware Indian Heritage 10,000 BC to AD 2000 |publisher=Lenape Books |year=2001}}</ref> The prehistoric period ended when European exploration and settlement arrived in the area bringing with it greater technology which ultimately supplanted much of the Native populations. Today, many Lenape people still reside in Cumberland County, such as the Nanticoke tribe who make up the Native American people from Southern New Jersey and the Delmarva Peninsula.<ref>{{cite web |title=About Us – Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Nation |language=en |url=https://nlltribe.com/about-us/ |access-date=November 15, 2022}}</ref>