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[Various (1971)] 19 The Promise of Ontario Archaeology, Bulletin of the Society for American Archaeology, Univ. of Toronto, II, pp. 1-21, Toronto. Another Probable Case of Prehistoric Bear Ceremonialism in New York. American Antiquity, Vol. 15, No. 3, pp…
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Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962) — source
…only, never with medium to big shell, and there are at least two soil building periods at Kettle Rock Point older than the Vinette Ilike pottery. If, as has been postulated, Vinette I is the primary ware in the northeastern…
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[Various (1971)] Current Concepts of Continuity and Chronology in New York Prehistory, Eastern States Archeological Federation Bulletin, No. 10, p. 5, Milton, Pa. A Current Synthesis of New York Prehistory. American Antiquity, Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 130-136. Salt…
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[Various (1971)] Tennessee, and his own work at the Prickly Pear site in New York. In South America he singles out the El Jobo site in Venezuela and the Cerro Chivateros site in Peru. Although he discusses the difficulties in…
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Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962) — source
…oldest date on Folsom is about 11, 000, from the Lindenmeier Horse Ranch, Colorado.) The fixing of this early point in time for man to have been preying on large American mammals will surprise no students of early man in…
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Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962) — source
…whole comprising the most definitive summary to date of the current state of knowledge of pre-Archaic, stone-projectile point cultures east of the Continental Divide. In his own summary of his piece, Mason says: "Information from western sites and…
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[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, Vol. 59, No. 1. Cambridge. Fitting…
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[Various (1971)] Multiple Bony Lesions Suggesting Myeloma in a Pre-Columbian Indian of Ten Years (with George D, Williams, M,D.), American Journal of Roentgenology and Radium Therapy, Vol. XLVI, No. 3, pp. 351-355, Review of Eli Lilly's…
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[Various (1971)] The following techniques were used to decorate the exterior of 64 vessels; incising, punctating, dentate stamping, bossing, cord-wrapped stick impressions, or a combination of incising with the other techniques. The technique of decoration and its frequency for…
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[Various (1971)] Excavations in a Prehistoric Village Site Near T3ainbridge, New York. Museum Service, April-May, pp. 86-90, Rochester Museum of Arts and Sciences, Rochester, N.Y. A Village and Burial Site on Frontenac Island, Museum Service, Oct.-Nov…
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[Various (1971)] Rochester, N.Y. A Stra tified Prehistoric Site at Brewerton, New York . Researches and Transactions of the New York State Archaeological Association, Vol. XI, No. 1, pp. v, 1-53, Rochester, N.Y. (Also published as Research Records…
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[Various (1971)] It was undoubtedly a period of great diversification and innovation and a time when the foundations for the later complex cultures were established. The great importance and complexity of these Archaic Cultures are just beginning to receive the…
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Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962) — source
…Is there any reason why these suggestions should not be initiated this year? HUDSON RIVER VALLEY PROJECTILE POINT CORRELATION WORKSHOP, SEPT. 22, 1962 Mauck Brammer Metropolitan Chapter At a meeting of thirty representatives of five chapters of the NYSAA at…
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[Various (1971)] Ritchie, State Archeologist, NYSAAF New York State Museum and Science Service The purpose of this paper is to restate, for greater clarity and emphasis, my current views regarding the major configuration of the Archaic stage in New York…
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[Various (1971)] Two are located across the Allegheny River from Witchs Walk (Witchs Walk #1, Witchs Walk #2), one is located in Onoville, New York, and one is located across the border at Kinzua, Pennsylvania. A tentative analysis of the…
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[Various (1971)] In the 1950's the United States Army Corps of Engineers proposed to dam the Allegheny River at Kinzua, Pennsylvania, to prevent downriver flooding and to control the navigation level of the river. Since the proposed dam would…
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[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…
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[Various (1971)] 20 THE BULLETIN 1955 Arthur Caswell Parker, The Bulletin, New York State Archeological Association, No. 3, pp. 13, Albany. 1955 The Northern Burial Cult, Pennsylvania Archaeologist, Vol. XXV, No. 1, pp. 45-49, Milton, Pa. 1955 The Northeastern…
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[Various (1971)] This reviewer would certainly agree with this position when it can be shown that these assemblages are distinctive and lack only proper dating. Would we deny the existence of dinosaurs if there were no dates? This has been…
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Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962) — source
…This point has been called Satan's Toe. Enraged, the devil gathered a great mass of stones and boulders in the interior of Long Island and hurled them at his enemies across the Sound, leaving the western shore line boulder…
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[Various (1971)] While there appears to be a gradation in size and depth, a closer examination revealed that there were at least four classes of features using the criteria of size, depth, vertical profile, and contents. Class 1: 15 large…
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[Various (1971)] 1-30, Salt Lake City. 1957 Excavations in 1956 on Archaic Sites of Long Island. Eastern States Archeological Federation Bulletin, No. 16, pp. 12-13. Trenton, N.J. 1957 Archaeology: Western Hemisphere. Encyclopaedia Britannica Book of the Year…
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[Various (1971)] It appears that this structure was either divided in half or an addition added at a later date (post mold pattern in 10N10W, 20N10W). Within this structure were ten features, one of which showed evidence of a fire…
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[Various (1971)] The design motifs a-f, h, j, k, 1, and o are examples of the design motifs on Ontario Oblique pottery which MacNeish defines as ". . , bands of oblique lines either parallel or opposed on the neck and rim…
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[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…
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[Various (1971)] It is with these two sites, Onoville Bridge and Kinzua, that Witchs Walk shares the greatest similarity. The settlement location of each site is duplicated at the others, except for minor variation. All three sites are located on…
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Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962) — source
…This confirms the chronology for the Croton River mouth area placed by us before this conference last year, whereby our Parham Ridge site, a manifestation of our Q or quartzite tradition, with its steatite and no ceramics, dates from the…
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Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962) — source
[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] "While we cannot demonstrate the emergence of the Archaic out of the antecedent Paleo-Indian stage there is good evidence that the delineation of some lines of affinity will be possible in the future…
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[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…
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[Various (1971)] The elevation of the sites is 1325-1330 ft. and thus falls within the flood pool created by the dam at Kinzua. The first area found and later excavated was called Witchs Walk #l. This area had not…
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