[Various (1971)] Here, in the basal levels at the Sylvan Lake Rockshelter, Funk uncovered a small number and assortment of untyped projectile points. Two radiocarbon dates from this general zone are 4030 B.C. ± 120 (I-2599) and 4610 B.C. ± 100 (Y-165…

[Various (1971)] As I have long and frequently stated, I regard the Laurentian tradition of the Late Archaic stage as having its immediate source in the Lake Forest belt lying adjacent on the south to the Great Lakes and extending eastward across low…

[Various (1971)] The time span of the Laurentian in southeastern Canada, New York and New England, on present limited C-14 determinations, falls between c. 3300 and 2000 B.C., with the oldest dates to the north, in the Ottawa Valley. Here two determi…

[Various (1971)] Farther east, in southern New England, we have a hearth charcoal radiocarbon date of 2270 B.C. ± 160 years (Y-1530) attributable to a weak Laurentian manifestation in Stratum 4 at the Hornblower II site on Martha's Vineyard (Ritchie …

[Various (1971)] The extended burial which produced the bone, Number 78, was that of a young male who had been richly provided with grave goods, including such characteristic Laurentian traits as a ground slate point or knife and chopper.2 A similar,…

[Various (1971)] While the weight of the evidence, cultural and chronological, strongly indicates that the Brewerton phase was still extant in central New York around 2000 B.C., we have, unfortunately, no way of assessing the antiquity of the key sit…

[Various (1971)] This fact introduces a major point in my perspective of the Archaic cultures in New York, namely, that the most plausible explanation for this distributional picture of the Brewerton phase was the approximately concurrent presence in…

[Various (1971)] ± 120 years (Y-2346), about 500 years later than the Lamoka Lake site situated approximately 60 miles to the southeast (Hayes and Bergs 1969). The persistence of a regional variation of the Lamoka culture in the lower Genesee Valley …

[Various (1971)] It therefore appears that the Lamoka was the 6 THE BULLETIN earliest known culture of the narrow point tradition to enter New York and that its route into the south-central region was at that time relatively unobstructed by Laurentia…

[Various (1971)] The 163 burials found in the midden covering the island in our several excavations occurred in a wide variety of modes and arrangements, and yielded skeletal remains and grave goods of singularly instructive character. There was one …

[Various (1971)] Search for comparable sites of the Brewerton phase, which might solve this dating dilemma, has so far been in vain. As I have said, the Lamoka culture per se is not represented in eastern or southern New York or New England, but Lamo…

[Various (1971)] The Squibnocket complex appears to have been the predominant Late Archaic manifestation of southern New England, as was the contemporaneous and closely related Sylvan Lake complex of eastern and southern New York. A large site of thi…

[Various (1971)] This process of material substitution probably involved significant technological and motor habit changes, since both the stone represented-quartz, quartzite and flint-and the form of its occurrence, in shore or bank pebbles or in qu…

[Various (1971)] This fact, already remarked for the narrow point users of the middle and upper Hudson Valley, can be extended to include the substitution of Onondaga and Normanskill flints for rhyolite in the manufacture of the "broad points" of the…

[Various (1971)] This phase is typified by narrow side-notched points of the Normanskill type (Ritchie 1961: 37-38), well made winged and perforated atlatl weights and effigy pestles, and is radiocarbon dated at 1930 B.C. ± 100 years (Y-1169) at the …

[Various (1971)] The 2500 B.C. date for Lamoka at the type site provides an age for a major culture of the narrow point tradition very close to that of the Vosburg phase in 8 THE BULLETIN eastern New York and Connecticut. Brennan's finds at the Twomb…

[Various (1971)] At the Frontenac Island site the projectile point inventory included 104 broad, stemmed points, some clearly identifiable with the Genesee type, others equitable with the ruder and less well defined stemmed form found in the Brewerto…

[Various (1971)] At the Dennis site in Menands, Albany County, Genesee points occurred below a level, which produced Orient Fishtail points, and above a zone containing predominantly Normanskill points. At this site, however, Snook Kill, Susquehanna …

[Various (1971)] On the basis of this site, Funk has suggested the tentative recognition of a "Batten Kill complex" (Funk n.d.). Some points resembling the Genesee type were found on the Snook Kill site in Saratoga County, N.Y. (Ritchie 1958: 91-98, …

[Various (1971)] Only a single stone pot fragment has so far been reported from a site of the Snook Kill phase, which I have therefore attributed to the terminal Archaic stage (Ritchie 1965a: 135, Figure 1). The succeeding culture manifestations of t…

[Various (1971)] It is also weakly represented in southern New England (Ritchie 1969b: 55, 85, 219, 222, 223, 230). In eastern and southern New York, at least, the Orient phase, C-14 dated on Long Island between 1043 B.C. ± 300 years (M--586) and 763…

[Various (1971)] Early Woodland pottery styles were diffused into the Northeast late in the Transitional stage. At the O'Neil site we found sherds of Vinette 1 ware (Ritchie and MacNeish 1949: 100) in the upper levels of the Frost Island zone (Ritchi…

[Various (1971)] While recognizing the validity of geographical centers of elaboration and dispersal, and climax periods in cultural development, I think we have unequivocal evidence for varying degrees of coexistence and interaction on time levels, …

[Various (1971)] 1943 Biotic Provinces of North America. University of Michigan Press. Ann Arbor. Dincauze, Dena Ferran 1966 Cremation Cemeteries in Eastern Massachusetts. Papers of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University,…

[Various (1971)] 245-247. Salt Lake City. Kneberg, Madeline 1956 Some Important Projectile Point Types found in the Tennessee Area. Tennessee Archaeologist, Vol. XII, No. 1, pp. 17-18. Knoxville. Kraft, Herbert C. 1970 The Miller Field Site, Warren C…

[Various (1971)] Research Records of the Rochester Museum of Arts and Sciences, No. 7. Rochester. 1955 Recent Discoveries Suggesting an Early Woodland Burial Cult in the Northeast. New York State Museum and Science Service, Circular 40. Albany. 1958 …

[Various (1971)] (in press) __________, and Robert E. Funk n.d.b Evidence for Early Archaic Occupations on Staten Island. (in press) Robbins, Maurice 1960 Wapanucket No. 6, An Archaic Village in Middleboro, Massachusetts. Cohannet Chapter, Massachuse…

[Various (1971)] RITCHIE: A VALEDICTION Robert E. Funk, NYSAAF

[Various (1971)] concluded 47 years of continuous work in northeastern archeology. It seems impossible, within the space allotted here, to do justice to this long and extremely productive career. It is hoped that the reader will at least be able to o…

[Various (1971)] But the pressure was relieved by numerous and frequently unexpected moments of humor. Working for and with Bill Ritchie was a memorable experience, and indeed as one summer field assistant put it, Bill was quite literally the most un…