First formally investigated in 1915, it is the type site for the Sterns Creek focus, the first Woodland period culture identified in Nebraska.

The area consists of repeated habitation layers, interspersed with materials washed down from the hillside above.

[4] Finds at the site include evidence of dwelling lodges using poles as support and finished in wattle and daub or bark,[5] as well as a diversity of tools, tool-making artifacts, pottery, and remnants of dietary plants and animals.

One particular set of post-holes are unusually small, and have been interpreted as possibly supporting a rack-like structure for drying meat.

[7] In the 1930s, William Duncan Strong investigated the site further, and connected its inhabitants to Woodland cultures of the northeastern United States.