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1971 Pennsylvania Archaeologist 41(1-2):1-8 The Middle Atlantic Culture Province: A Point of View W. Fred Kinsey, III |
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Recognition of a Middle Atlantic Culture Province is proposed. The
concept is considered useful in elucidating the Late Archaic of the
region, and "Piedmont Tradition" is suggested as an appropriate
descriptive term for the manifestation. The paucity of Early Archaic
remains and the need for data from deep stratigraphic context with
which to identify cultural components are discussed. |
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1971 Pennsylvania Archaeologist 41(1-2):9-14 The Archaic of the Upper Ohio Valley: A View in 1970 Richard L. George |
| Some of the more recent work bearing on the Archaic of the Upper
Ohio Valley is discussed, and the present limited under standing of
the epoch is defined.The presence of the far-flung Laurentian
tradition is demonstrated. It is pointed out that this tradition ·
represents a long continuum, extending in the Upper Ohio through the
Panhandle Archaic into the Early and Middle Woodland periods. The
Laurentian, however, seems to have co existed with and was perhaps
modified by several neighboring traditions, notably Kirk and LeCroy
influences from the south. There is, in. fact, a possibility that
the Upper Ohio Valley supported a multicultural occupation during
Archaic times. |
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1971 Pennsylvania Archaeologist 41(1-2):15-29 The Thompson Rockshelter Neal W. Densmore & Richard L. Ziegler |
| Excavation of a well-protected rockshelter with a shallow solum
in northwestern Pennsylvania is described. Although the site yielded
artifactual evidence of sporadic visits of small, possibly family
sized groups, from early Middle Woodland times through Late
Woodland, no stratigraphic arrangement was discernible. This
situation obviously resulted from each succeeding group of visitors
churning the thin soil mantle. Predominately the evidence is of the
Monongahela culture, but lroquoian traits are also in evidence. This
combination of Monongahela and lroquoian traits is typical of sites
in the area, lying as it does about midway between the centers of
the two culture areas. |
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1971 Pennsylvania Archaeologist 41(1-2):30-37 First Site Synthesis and Proposed Chronology for the Aborigines of Southwestern Connecticut Bernard W. Powell |
| This attempt to order eleven archaeological manifestations in
southwestern Connecticut compares artifact types, excavated
features, and stratigraphy. Certain relationships to a cultural
chronology proposed earlier for nearby coastal New York, and to the
McKern taxonomy for North American archaeological phenomena are
suggested. The present study is a first approximation; future
revisions should be anticipated. |
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1971 Pennsylvania Archaeologist 41(1-2):53-62 The Rip Van Winkle Site Paul L. Weinman & Thomas P. Weinman |
| The Rip Van Winkle Site is unusual in two respects, 1) as the
only known contact site on the Hudson River so far to be
scientifically excavated and reported, and2) as a rare example of a
late site with well-defined stratigraphy. The upper stratum yielded
a mixture of European and Indian items. It is suggested that they
were left by an Algonkian-speaking band, possibly a remnant of the
Mohican confederacy, although a Mohawk party is also an admitted
possibility . The middle cultural stratum is of the Chance Horizon,
with typical pottery types and lithic artifacts of the period. The
lower zone was an occupation of the late Middle Woodland, yielding
Jacks Reef pottery and lithic types. |
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1971 Pennsylvania Archaeologist 41(3): 1-11 |
| Zea mays remains from five New York Owasco and Iroquois sites
are described and discussed in terms of a synthesis of published and
unpublished work concerning maize analyses of New York material, The
methods of analysis are reviewed, and the results are examined in a
discussion of the various hypotheses relevant to the nature and
origin of maize in New York and the Northeast. |
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1971 Pennsylvania Archaeologist 41(3): 12-25 |
| The Lyman or Indian Point Site, located on a high bluff at the
confluence of Paine Creek and the Grand River, four miles east of
Painesville, Lake County , Ohio, has been considered a typical
Whittlesey hilltop fortification. Excavation revealed an early
component (late Archaic or Early Woodland) which may have been
associated with construction of the earthworks (radiocarbon-dated at
2090 B.C.) and a later Late Prehistoric component probably not
associated with the earthworks. The Late Prehistoric component
contains a variety of Whittlesey ceramic types but is marked by an
abundance of shell-tempered, incised ware (McFate Incised). A date
of 1450-1550 A.D. is suggested for this late occupation. |
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1971 Pennsylvania Archaeologist 41(3): 26-43 |
| The Fairport Harbor Site , 33-La-5 , was partially excavated
during the summer of 1967. The site represents a single component
believed to date circa 1300 A.D. Ceramics indicate that the site is
very closely related to the Reeve Site and less closely related to
the Tuttle Hill and South Park sites. The Fairport Harbor Site is
definitely prehistoric and cannot be considered protohistoric Erie
as has been suggested previously . |
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1971 Pennsylvania Archaeologist 41(3): 45-59 |
| Recent discoveries on Staten Island by amateur archaeologists
have disclosed convincing evidence for the presence there of Early
Archaic manifestations similar to those of North Carolina and West
Virginia. Such projectile point types as Kirk Stemmed, Kanawha
Stemmed, LeCroy Bifurcated Base, Stanly Stemmed, Hardaway , and
Palmer have been found on the sites in association with a variety of
scrapers, choppers, rough stone tools and even ground stone
woodworking tools. A puzzling aspect of these sites, which have
produced several radiocarbon dates ranging from 5310-7410 B.C., is
the apparent coexistence of several point types which have been
found in separate levels of stratified sites in the Southeast. A
cultural-ecological explanation is proposed for the absence of
similar manifestations in upstate New York in the period of c. 8
00-5000 B.C. |
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1971 Pennsylvania Archaeologist 41(3): 61-66 |
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The Dunn Petroglyphs Site, 36-Fa-54, Fayette County, Pennsylvania,
is described, its motifs are detailed, and comparisons are made
between it and other petroglyph sites studied by the author in the
course of his continuing investigation of the petroglyph sites of
the Upper Ohio Valley. |
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1971 Pennsylvania Archaeologist 41(3): 67-69 |
| The Cooksburg Bridge Petroglyphs Site (36-C l-23 ), Farmington
Township , Clarion County, Pennsylvania is described and its motifs
are discussed. |
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