NYSAA Bulletin No. 52 — Archaic Sites: Croton Point & Dogan Point — Passage 3 (part 18)

[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 Lamoka type points are present in that area of New York as part of the Sylvan Lake complex, along with such other types of the narrow point tradition as Bare Island and Wading River (Funk 1965). In the type site the level with this complex (Stratum 2) is dated at 2210 B.C. ± 140 (Y-1536). On Martha's Vineyard, Mass., our excavations on the Hornblower II site, Stratum 3, produced what I have defined as the Squibnocket complex, very similar to Funk's Sylvan Lake complex, characterized by narrow points of my Wading River type (Ritchie 1969b:241-242), and radiocarbon dated at 2190 B.C. ± 100 years (Y-1529).

The lower level of Stratum 3 at the Peterson site on Martha's Vineyard, referable to the Squibnocket complex, was only slightly younger at 2070 B.C. ± 115 years (I-3103) (Ritchie 1969b: 52, 192, 215-220). The persistence of the Wading River type point on Martha's Vineyard into post-Squibnocket times was clearly revealed by our discoveries, especially in Stratum 1B at the Hornblower II site, where it may have survived into an early ceramic level (Ritchie 1969b: 18-19, 27-32).