[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] Number 26 ******************************************************************************************** Contents Notes 1 Hudson River Valley Projectile Point Correlation Workshop, Sept. 22, 1962 Mauck Brammer 4 Fossils…

[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] earth containing bones of extinct animals and an obsidian chip were cased together undisturbed and shipped to the Museum where the flake was removed in the presence of scientific witnesses. Mark R. Harrington of The S…

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[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] phases, the first of which was called the Farmdale and the second the Iowan. Depending on how the glaciology finally works out, Lewisville Man and Tule Springs Man were either mid-Wisconsin or pre-Wisconsin inhabitant…

[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] Drieger wrote "Looking back, one may well wonder why the original discovery of the Tule Springs locality in 1933, with its evidences of contemporaneity of man and extinct Pleistocene fauna as reported in that year by …

[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] association publication committee, or to the Editor, Louis Brennan, 39 Hamilton Avenue, Ossining, N. Y. No. 26 November 1962 3 American archaeology has to be re-thought out, and that modest tool, the chopper, is about…

[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] Bert Salwen of Metropolitan Chapter, who is now teaching at Bennington College, made the July issue of American Antiquity with his "Sea Levels and Archaeology in the Long Island Sound Area." The abstract in A. A. says…

[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] HONOR Joffre Coe of The University of North Carolina was re-elected to a two-year term as ESAF president at the ESAF Annual Meeting. Re-elected vice-president was Sigfus Olafson of the NYSAA Metropolitan and MidHudson…

[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] A further general workshop was scheduled for October 27. A suggestion by Dr. Ralph Solecki that a representative Hudson River Valley sampling would be desirable for the Metropolitan Chapter, to be housed at Columbia U…

[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] Obviously, the terms to be used and the subclassification of the system would need further study by the committee. And obviously, also, similar systems for pottery and other artifacts as separated by function, as poin…

[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] For the October 27 workshop, it was suggested that concentration on the first three or four main sub-divisions would be desirable. (Editors note: a second conference was held on October 25 and will be reported later.)…

[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] The stones not meeting the necessary requirements for further modification became hearth and boiling stones or were put to some other crude utilitarian use, such as hammers, anvils, and mullers. In the Park area, the …

[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] At the Archery Range site, an unmodified stone of duck like form, partly polished as if by handling, was recovered from a feast pit adjacent to a burial at- 6 THE BULLETIN tributed to the florescent Bowmans Brook stag…

[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] On the north shore of Lake Ontario, Bay of Quinte’ Component, a Point Peninsula Focus burial mound contained several natural concretions and fossils in addition to various burial offerings (Ritchie, 1944, p. 178). Fos…

[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] The Indians fought him fiercely with all their numbers, and he retreated southward down the coast to the vicinity of Throgs Neck, the south eastern end of Bronx County. Being hard pressed and the tide low, he crossed …

[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] The twelve heated, steam -producing stones of the Sweat Lodge Ceremony of the Delaware were considered sacred in the diagnosis and treatment of sickness (Wallace, 1961, pp. 73-74). The Burnt Offering Ceremony called f…

[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] Mecca. Stones believed impressed with the footprint of Gautama Buddha were considered sacred. Whole mountains such as the Greek Mount Olympus is an example of the ancient belie f in the residence of the gods. Gems, su…

[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] Jenkins, Stephen, The Story of the Bronx, (1912), G. P. Putnams Sons, New York and London. Kaeser, Edward J., The Archery Range Site, A Preliminary Report, The Bulletin , New York State Archeological Association, No. …

[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] The grave was 26 inches in depth and the fragile skulls were badly fractured by freezing of the heavy soil. The grave was situated 150 feet from salt marshes on land many times inundated by marine tides. Ten feet sout…

[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] Most types of tools have been collected on the surface of this small site during the past 70 years, notably among them a small completely grooved axe two inches in length, no doubt but a child's toy tool, and one wond…

[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] The island, consisting of twenty-seven square miles of surface area, is fairly level and was undoubtedly created by the last ice age. The chief industry has been farming since the island was purchased by New York Stat…

[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] The area is a gentle rolling plain, rising in a south westerly direction from the river bank which is approximately six feet above the river level. At the present time, the larger portion of the area is under intensiv…

[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] I have not at the time of this writing had the opportunity to view the collection or read the notes, but hope to do so in the near future. The fact that many aboriginal cultures are represented by the artifact collect…

[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] We have not as yet found any similar evidences on the west branch of the river as were found on the east branch to strengthen our theory. It is possible we never may, as much of that area of the island has been develo…

[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] Projectiles: Notched, stemmed and triangular Scrapers: Notched, beveled, triangular, simple end, and side scrapers Drills: Straight, expanded base, notched, T and Y shape *Mortuary Blades: Ovate, Lanceolate, and trian…

[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] VINETTE I POTTERY* IN THE CROTON RIVER MOUTH AREA Louis A. Brennan Metropolitan & Mid-Hudson Chapters Two weeks ago, (March, 1962), while excavating in the middens at the Kettle Rock end of Croton Point about which we…

[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] An examination of the literature places this type early in the Early Woodland Period and an inspection of the material itself by John Zakucia of Pennsylvania confirms that similar ware is found immediately succeeding …

[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] We can, after over two years of digging at this location, assert with considerable conviction that pottery is associated here with little shell only, never with medium to big shell, and there are at least two soil bui…

[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] Since no later middens occur in this vicinity we must further assume that after this time, conditions at Kettle Rock were never again by reason of climate and/or water conditions, favorable to the establishment of oys…

[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] At midden Locus 1 at Kettle Rock where Vinette I-like pottery occurred in two spots opposite each other on the midden periphery the meager artifact midden content consisted of a 2 in, long fishtail point, a 3 in. long…