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966 Pennsylvania Archaeologist 36(1-2):1-11 The Parkers Landing Petroglyph Site, 36 Cl 1 James L. Swauger |
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The Parkers Landing Petroglyphs Site, 36 Cl l,
Clarion County, Pennsylvania, is described, its motifs detailed, and comparisons
made between it and other petroglyph sites studied and published by the author
as a result of his continuing investigation of petroglyph sites in the Upper
Ohio Valley. Swauger suggests certain hypotheses based on his petroglyph
studies: that there was some relationship between those who carved the
petroglyphs in the Upper Ohio Valley and those who made and used historic Ojibwa
birch-bark Grand Medicine Society scrolls, that the Upper Ohio Valley
petroglyphs were carved by Monongahela Man, and that Monongahela Man was
ancestral to historic Shawnee. |
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1966 Pennsylvania Archaeologist 36(1-2):12-49 A History of Gunflints John Witthoft |
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A technological and sociological history of gunflints is outlined.
Data from archaeological and historical sources are used to clarify
the hitherto little known proveniences of gunflints and of other
fire-stones. Gunflint typologies are discussed. A review of the
scientific principles concerning fire-stone operation is offered,
and interpretations regarding their past utility and performance are
formed on the basis of experimental studies. Gunflints are shown to
be useful keys for dating contact period and historic: American
Indian sites. As aids to students of history, gunflints are good
indicators of the trade relationships that were operative among
flint-bartering peoples on a worldwide basis. The manufacture of
gunflints is discussed as a valid example of trade specialization
and European socio-technological genesis. The techniques of gunflint
manufacture recapitulate in their development the evolution of Old
World prehistoric lithic traditions |
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1966 Pennsylvania Archaeologist 36(1-2):51-65 |
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This bibliography is concerned specifically with the actual evidence
of maize in archaeological contexts in eastern North America and
with the literature having to do with this maize. It includes
notations in site reports that record the recovery of maize remains,
botanical descriptions of the maize recovered, discussions of the
history of maize in the area and hypotheses concerning its routes
and elates of entry. No consideration is given to the ethnographic
literature that mentions or describes methods of maize cultivation
and storage, to mythology and ceremonialism surrounding maize, to
evidences for maize agriculture except vegetal remains ( e.g., "corn
hills," agricultural tools, storage pits, "levels of cultural
complexity" ) or to remains of cultigens other than maize. |
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1966 Pennsylvania Archaeologist 36(1-2):66-70 |
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A unique effigy carved of wood is described. The circumstances of
discovery are related. The artifact came from a large mound ( Site
Yo 24 ) among the Harris Creek Sites, Tick Island, St. Johns River
drainage, Volusia County, Florida. Comparative and interpretive
remarks are offered. |
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