NYSAA Bulletin No. 52 — Archaic Sites: Croton Point & Dogan Point — Passage 7 (part 2)

[Various (1971)] In the early 1950's he synthesized his work on certain enigmatic burial sites with the formulation of the seminal idea of a "basic core of religiosity," which pervaded a variety of northeastern cultures at the dawn the ceramic epoch. This old "cult of the dead" was cle arly affiliated, however remotely, with the more spectacular manifestations of Ohio and adjoining areas. Publication of the Chance horizon report in 1952 and the Dutch Hollow report in 1954 demonstrated his continued interest in Iroquois cultural development. His contributions to this field were eventually recognized in 1966 by the award of the Cornplanter Medal for Iroquois Research, given by the Cayuga County Historical Society. His concepts of the Archaic were undergoing revision as fieldwork continued.

Impor- No. 52, July 1971 15 tant shifts were clearly in process as revealed in his Introduction to Hudson Valley Prehistory, published in 1958. His crucial work on Long Island in the mid-1950's succeeded in delineating the domestic aspects of the stone potusing Orient people who had created the elaborate burial ceremonialism long known from cemeteries on eastern parts of the Island. A growing dissatisfaction with traditional field techniques and the data resulting there from is also evident in a paper on northeastern settlement patterns which appeared in Prehistoric Settlement Patterns in the New World , edited by Gordon Willey (1956).