54 passages in 4 source items for “shell midden”

NYSAA Bulletin No. 39 — Hudson Valley Shell Midden Dating — Passage 1 §0 — [Various (1967)] Contents The Taconic Tradition and the Coe Axiom Louis A. Brennan 1 Excavations of a Probable Late Prehistoric Onondaga House Site Robert Ricklis 15 The Pickle Hill Site, Warren County, New York Paul L. Weinman, Thomas P. Weinman…

NYSAA Bulletin No. 39 — Hudson Valley Shell Midden Dating — Passage 8 (part 5) §29 — [Various (1967)] The location of each of these molds in corresponding positions at opposite ends of the structure suggests that they served as large roof supports. It will also be seen from the illustration that both to the north and…

NYSAA Bulletin No. 39 — Hudson Valley Shell Midden Dating — Passage 6 (part 2) §15 — [Various (1967)] The makers apparently did not know how to thin the stem and their efforts often resulted in a round-based or stud stem, which is characteristic of the first five phases of the tradition. Variety: The Croton Half…

NYSAA Bulletin No. 39 — Hudson Valley Shell Midden Dating — Passage 9 (part 11) §40 — [Various (1967)] Following spring thaws the River people probably moved to Lake George, the Hudson River, or other bodies of water where fish and shellfish were available. REFERENCES Funk, Robert E. 1966a. The Significance of Three Radiocarbon Dates from the…

NYSAA Bulletin No. 39 — Hudson Valley Shell Midden Dating — Passage 2 (part 6) §6 — [Various (1967)] In each of the twenty culture zones she has excavated (to a total depth of 24 ft. below former surface level) where projectile points occur, there is one type per zone. The type succession is the same and…

NYSAA Bulletin No. 39 — Hudson Valley Shell Midden Dating — Passage 7 (part 9) §24 — [Various (1967)] Albans Archaic Site, 1964-65, The Eastern States Archaeological Federation, Bulletin No. 25, May, 1966, Berwyn, Pa. Coe, Joffre L. 1964 The Formative Cultures of the Carolina Piedmont, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 54, part 5…

NYSAA Bulletin No. 39 — Hudson Valley Shell Midden Dating — Passage 4 (part 2) §9 — [Various (1967)] Yet it is even closer than that for, while artifacts do not have genes and cannot breed, their makers do and correlation between the artifact tradition and the genealogy of its makers is what a cultural tradition is…

NYSAA Bulletin No. 39 — Hudson Valley Shell Midden Dating — Passage 10 §41 — [Various (1967)] of millions of people living in the metropolitan regions of New York and New Jersey, it has been completely lost in the rush of civilization. The Tuxedo-Ringwood Canal was built around 1765 by Peter Hasenclever. Hasenclever, a…

NYSAA Bulletin No. 26 — Croton Point Midden Excavation — Passage 5 (part 10) §25 — …occurred-in the top and last-deposited oyster shell heap in a complex of shell heaps of at least two different climatic epochs. The shells of this Vinette I-like pottery midden are small by comparison with those of the…

NYSAA Bulletin No. 26 — Croton Point Midden Excavation — Passage 5 (part 11) §26 — …The midden where our latest Vinette I-like pottery occurs itself lies under a top soil layer of from two to six inches. This soil consists of a huh-Ac content which includes shell fragments from the decay of the…

NYSAA Bulletin No. 26 — Croton Point Midden Excavation — Passage 5 (part 12) §27 — …Brennan et al. (1962)] We can, after over two years of digging at this location, assert with considerable conviction that pottery is associated here with little shell only, never with medium to big shell, and there are at least two…

NYSAA Bulletin No. 26 — Croton Point Midden Excavation — Passage 4 (part 7) §11 — …15), and the as yet undocumented Bartow midden have all yielded various stones containing molds or negative impressions of fossil mollusks, in association with cultural material diagnostic of the East River and Windsor aspects (Smith, 1950, pp. 116-187). Doubtlessly…

NYSAA Bulletin No. 26 — Croton Point Midden Excavation — Passage 5 (part 15) §30 — …Brennan et al. (1962)] In an adjacent midden of small shell there occurred a short, broad-bladed, simple stemmed point, a quartzite stemmed point that may fall within a fish-tail or, more likely, an incipient fish-tail phase, a…

NYSAA Bulletin No. 26 — Croton Point Midden Excavation — Passage 5 (part 17) §32 — …Brennan et al. (1962)] This living pattern, on the evidence of the uniform volume of individual shell heaps that vary but little through the several horizons during which they were laid down, consisted of a basic population unit of perhaps…

NYSAA Bulletin No. 26 — Croton Point Midden Excavation — Passage 4 (part 8) §12 — …At Tottenville, Staten Island, New York, a zoomorphic limonite concretion was recovered from a beach embankment shell deposit in association with early Bowmans Brook material. Indian cultures of the southwest, particularly the Zuni of New Mexico, owned and highly valued…

NYSAA Bulletin No. 26 — Croton Point Midden Excavation — Passage 5 (part 3) §18 — …The occupation was evidently in one of the periods when the hard-shell clam was absent from the north side of the local bay. Judging from the nature of the food remains in these pits, it was a season when…