5 passages in 2 source items for “shell midden oyster”

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 — …26 November 1962 13 distinctly larger oyster shell, with an occasional scallop showing up. These contain no pottery, nor is there pottery in any heap of medium to large shell anywhere on Kettle Rock Point.

NYSAA Bulletin No. 26 — Croton Point Midden Excavation — Passage 5 (part 12) §27 — …shell requires us to think is that these heaps were laid down during a relatively cool period, since the much larger shell of earlier middens show us that there had been in this sequence periods much more favorable to oyster…

NYSAA Bulletin No. 26 — Croton Point Midden Excavation — Passage 5 (part 13) §28 — …Thus, the sequence of heaps of larger oyster shell lying under, and separated from the smaller shells by soil horizons must be in the order of dates we have estimated, stretching back to about 6000 B. P.