[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] In an adjacent midden of small shell there occurred a short, broad-bladed, simple stemmed point, a quartzite stemmed point that may fall within a fish-tail or, more likely, an incipient fish-tail phase, a 3 in, narrow…

[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] We have found just one of these at Kettle Rock and they are certainly not prominent in what we have named the Q tradition along the Hudson, which is the narrow-bladed point tradition and which certainly has roots in t…

[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] This living pattern, on the evidence of the uniform volume of individual shell heaps that vary but little through the several horizons during which they were laid down, consisted of a basic population unit of perhaps …

[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] we believe that a series of dates for it from Long Island, up the Hudson and into western New York and into New England would provide what amounts to a road map of the place of origin of eastern pottery and some easte…

[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] This and later crops stalled our attempts for nearly two and a half years to finish this pit. In the fall of 1961, after again obtaining permission from the landowner, who must remain anonymous to protect the site, we…

[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] 16 THE BULLETIN pipe is represented by a stem only, but is unusual in that the rear portion of an animal, possibly a lizard, stands out in relief on the top of the stem. It has legs with three toenails on each and a s…

[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] 7 1 rim 3 4% Cord Wrapped Stick 10% Linear In the January MORGAN CHAPTER NEWSLETTER a graph (4B) shows the number of horizontal lines around the rims of the Ontario Horizontal designed pottery vessels. Four lines are …

[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] 11 OAKFIELD FORT 7 LITERATURE In addition to the highly significant report on Tule Springs mentioned on page 1, 1962 produced another archaeological study that ought to be in the library of every chapter of NYSAA. Thi…

[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] "While we cannot demonstrate the emergence of the Archaic out of the antecedent Paleo-Indian stage there is good evidence that the delineation of some lines of affinity will be possible in the future." Issue is taken …

[Various (1967)] Contents The Taconic Tradition and the Coe Axiom Louis A. Brennan 1 Excavations of a Probable Late Prehistoric Onondaga House Site Robert Ricklis 15 The Pickle Hill Site, Warren County, New York Paul L. Weinman, Thomas P. Weinman, Ro…

[Various (1967)] 1 THE TACONIC TRADITION AND THE COE AXIOM Louis A. Brennan Metropolitan Chapter THE COE AXIOM In his recently published report (Coe 1964) on the Archaic cultures of inland North Carolina, "The Formative Cultures of the Carolina Piedm…

[Various (1967)] The discovery establishes-and Coe leaves no doubt that he intends it to establish-that the craftsmen of any given community at any given time were not making a diversity or "hodgepodge" of projectile point styles, but were working to…

[Various (1967)] Rouse (1960: 313) has used the taxonomic word "mode" for the same concept, defining it thus: "By the term mode is meant any standard concept or custom which governs the behavior of the artisans of a community, which they hand down fr…

[Various (1967)] As Coe points out in his introduction to his Piedmont report, the "complex" is a delusion. It is not a situation of diversity within 2 THE BULLETIN a cultural-time unit; it is a confusion of cultural-time units, brought about because…

[Various (1967)] It was assumed that, if a significant number of traits were found to occur together in a series of sites, then they were probably the physical remains of the activities of a particular group of people at a particular period of time. …

[Various (1967)] In each of the twenty culture zones she has excavated (to a total depth of 24 ft. below former surface level) where projectile points occur, there is one type per zone. The type succession is the same and the dates are approximately …

[Various (1967)] of penetration, is at a right angle with the altitude of the point). 9. the corner or bias notched (the axis of the notching is at an acute angle to the altitude of the point). 10. the neck and yoke (these points are either notched o…

[Various (1967)] the production of a projectile point, changes in proportion, of weight, of choice of material, may came about in a number of ways, from individual fancy or discovery to movement to a new locale or exposure to new ideas. Phases of chr…

[Various (1967)] Yet it is even closer than that for, while artifacts do not have genes and cannot breed, their makers do and correlation between the artifact tradition and the genealogy of its makers is what a cultural tradition is, by the definitio…

[Various (1967)] No. 39, March 1967 5 were used as shaft material, and when we find the dowel or tendon stem what we find is the use of reed shafts rather than any stylistic features. Intermediate, hybrid and, possibly, specialized forms are not the …

[Various (1967)] Its theme is the stemmed point, and a stemmed point, according to those who have learned the art of flint knapping, is harder to shape than a notched-blade point. For the latter, once a satisfactorily thin ovoid or trianguloid blank …

[Various (1967)] Since we have no prospects of finding such sites, in this area at least, to construct a model of the Taconic tradition we have had to make use of what appears to be the logic of technological and form development, added by some very …

[Various (1967)] We have taken them from almost every site excavated or collected from in this area - some ten productive sites-and wherever the site collection is large, Taconic tradition points 6 THE BULLETIN No. 39, March 1967 7 8 THE BULLETIN are…

[Various (1967)] one shoulder is sharply cornered and the other is rounded. Why it did not come into vogue sooner to round both shoulders or why it came into vogue when it did will probably never be ascertained, but it did come into vogue eventually,…

[Various (1967)] The makers apparently did not know how to thin the stem and their efforts often resulted in a round-based or stud stem, which is characteristic of the first five phases of the tradition. Variety: The Croton Half and Halfs. Asymmetric…

[Various (1967)] from the stem. Variety 2: The Van Cort Long Lines. The blade edges curve into the stem in a continuous line. Variety 3: The Van Cort Fishtails. The blade edge curves in a continuous line into the stem which then flares out. Very prob…

[Various (1967)] But what is represented does exist in the concrete form of archaeological specimens. The model here given is certainly subject to revision and amendment. DISCUSSION Ritchie, in his definitive volume The Archaeology of New York State …

[Various (1967)] Thus the 4750 ± 160 (Y-1761), confirmed by a Geochron Laboratory date of 4725 ± 60 (Gx-0762) obtained by the author on a hearth at the Twombly Landing site, Palisades Park, New Jersey and establishing an order of age for the narrow-b…

[Various (1967)] the two are approximately equivalent. Carbon 14 labs are not yet ready to release a full calibration of real and C14 ages but it is in making. According to the formula being tentatively used in the meantime the real or annual date of…

[Various (1967)] Since Ritchie has a date of 4474 ± 300 (Ritchie 1965:91) on a Vosburgian phase hearth at the Bannerman site in Dutchess County and Funk has the aforementioned date of 4220 ± 160 on a narrow -bladed, stemmed point level at Sylvan Lake…