NYSAA Bulletin No. 52 — Archaic Sites: Croton Point & Dogan Point — Passage 3 (part 23)

[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 Twombly Landing site, on the lower Hudson, in Palisades Park, New Jersey, if confirmed by additional discoveries, suggest the presence of "small stemmed point" users in that area around 2800 B.C. (Brennan 1967: 10). More recently he has published a C-14 date of 3125 B.C. ± 120 years (GX-1919) on shell overlying "square stemmed, narrow-bladed points" at Montrose Point on the lower Hudson (Brennan 1970: 22). In any case, the overlap of the narrow point tradition with the Laurentian at the lower end of the latter's temporal range, and with cultures of the terminal Archaic and Transitional stages at its upper end, is unequivocal on the evidence from Martha's Vineyard, Sylvan Lake Rockshelter, Long Island and at various sites in the Hudson Valley (Ritchie 1965a: 134-135, 149-155; 1969b: 219-223; Funk 1965; n.d.). To the terminal Archaic belong two broad, stemmed point complexes, one characterized by Genesee type points (Ritchie 1961: 24-25), the other by points of the Snook Kill variety (Ibid.: 47-48), pertaining to the Snook Kill phase (Ritchie 1965a: 134-141).