NYSAA Bulletin No. 52 — Archaic Sites: Croton Point & Dogan Point — Passage 3 (part 4)

[Various (1971)] Anderson, Donald Hollowell, and Joseph Bodnar, with supporting evidence from two other sites excavated chiefly by Donald R. Sainz. Through the courtesy and generosity of these enthusiastic workers we have been able to study and report their results to date (Ritchie and Funk n.d.b). The Staten Island materials occur in the deepest artifact-bearing zones of the several sites, but in no consistent combination. The artifact complexes comprise projectile points of the following types: LeCroy Bifurcated Base, Kanawha Stemmed, Stanly Stemmed, Kirk Corner-Notched, Kirk Stemmed, Palmer CornerNotched, and Hardaway Side-Notched, variously described by Kneberg for Tennessee (1956: 27-28), Coe for the Carolina Piedmont (1964), and Broyles for the St. Albans site in West Virginia (1966). There are also end and side scrapers, some with graving spurs like Paleo-Indian tools; biface knives of ovate and triangular forms and a unique oblong variety; rare spokeshave scrapers and drills; numerous choppers of ovate or oblong shape; pebble hammerstones; anvilstones; abrading stones; bifacially chipped celts with ground bits and a fragmentary adz. There is in every case a perplexing association in a single stratigraphic zone of several point types which occur only in separate horizons of the North Carolina and West Virginia sites described by Coe and Broyles.