|
1975 Pennsylvania Archaeologist 45(1-2):1-103 Faucett and Byram Sites: Chronology and Settlement in the Delaware Valley W. Fred Kinsey , III |
|
Thirty-seven miles of Delaware Valley flood plain in northeastern
Pennsylvania and northwestern New Jersey are threatened with
inundation by construction of the proposed Tocks Island Reservoir.
Archaeological investigations on the Pennsylvania side, carried out
under National Park Service contract, have permitted the survey and
excavation of numerous prehistoric sites. At the deeply stratified
Faucett site more than 13 distinct cultural components are
represented in the stratigraphic profile, and the sequence is
sustained by 14 radiocarbon dates. Cultural assemblage, community
settlement, adaptive pattern, density indices, and specialized
activity areas are examined for each component. A growth-rate model
of flood plain accretion for the last 6000 years is presented. The
Byram site , located on the Delaware River flood plain in
west-central New Jersey , is a deeply stratified habitation and
workshop site for the near by argillite quarries. More than 10
occupations are present, and 3 radiocarbon dates support Faucett
site dating. Byram and Faucett expand upon the cultural-historical
framework for the Northeast and reveal the considerable diversity
and complexity that was present in the Delaware Valley during the
Late Archaic as well as in subsequent developments. |
|
1975 Pennsylvania Archaeologist 45(3):1-30 Excavations at Meadowcroft Rockshelter, 1973-1974: A Progress Report . J. M. Adovasio, J. D. Gunn, J. Donahue, and R. Stuckenrath |
| Meadowcroft Rockshelter is a deeply stratified, multi-component
site in Washington County, Pennsylvania. The 11 well defined
stratigraphic units isolated at the site span some 15,000 years of
intermittent occupation by groups representing all of the major
cultural stages/periods now recognized in northeastern North
America. Throughout the sequence the site served as a locus for
hunting, collecting, and fo od processing activities which involved
the seasonal exploitation of the immediately adjacent Cross Creek
Valley and the contiguous uplands. |
|
1975 Pennsylvania Archaeologist 45(3):35-36 Comment on "The Foods of the Connecticut Indians" B. W. Powell |
| In a recent article, F. W. Warner has summarized several
Connecticut site reports for data bearing on foods consumed by the
Indians. Erroneous citations of facts in an earlier report by me,
and curious inconsistencies and omissions are here indicated, and
attention is directed to other Connecticut site reports which were
au courant at the time of Warner's work and which bear on the
dietary habits of the Indians. It is hoped this comment will help
correct the record and make available additional information. |
|
1975 Pennsylvania Archaeologist 45(3):37-39 Archaeologists View von Daniken Guy Graybill |
| A poll of professional archaeologists was taken by the
Middleburg High Archaeology Club to determine professional reaction
to von Daniken's work. |
|
1975 Pennsylvania Archaeologist 45(3):40-43 More About the Unalachtigo C. A. Weslager |
| The term Unalachtigo, first appearing in contemporary records in
1769, applies to a certain group of Delaware Indians whose dialect
differed from the dialects spoken by the Unami and the Munsies. The
Unalachtigo, as historical citations reveal, were not the Nanticoke,
known to modern Delawares as the wine tok. The terms Munsie, Unami,
and Unalachtigo were not used politically or linguistically when the
Delawares lived in their ancestral homes in the Delaware River
valley. The likelihood is that they may have originally been
geographical terms which took on new meanings when the Delawares
went west. |
|
1975 Pennsylvania Archaeologist 45(3):45-56 |
| The Meadows Mound (36WH276) was a Late Adena burial mound
located in the Chartiers Creek drainage basin near Washington,
Pennsylvania. This report describes the excavation of the mound and
the artifacts found in it. Although the mound had been ravaged by
artifact collectors, enough evidence remained to allow the site to
be related to the slowly growing cultural history of prehistoric
southwestern Pennsylvania. |
|
1975 Pennsylvania Archaeologist 45(4):1-21 |
| The Wadding Rockshelter, 36AR21, a stratified site excavated
between 1959 and 1964, is discussed. Artifacts have been assigned by
stratigraphy and typology to 5 distinctive cultural entities . A new
pottery type is identified, and several projectile point types as
yet unreported in the Upper Ohio Valley are illustrated and
discussed. The importance of the site's location on an east-west
flowing stream is emphasized. |
|
1975 Pennsylvania Archaeologist 45(4):22-44 |
| The archaeological study of Split Rockshelter (36EL4)
demonstrates the significance of the rock shelter as a mode of
survival for the occupants of the upper Clarion River Valley,
possibly as far back as the middle Archaic period (3500 B.C. to 2500
B.C. ). The meager stratigraphic evidence at the site indicates a
strong Laurentian manifestation persisting down to Middle Woodland
times with the presence of Lamoka-like and Brewerton-like points
associated with heavy thick grit-tempered wares well known from
sites in the Upper Ohio Valley. A Late Pre historic occupation is
also recognized for the shelter from the association of relatively
small triangular projectile points and thin shell-tempered wares.
Brown and mottled gray Onondaga flints was the chief lithic material. |
|
1975 Pennsylvania Archaeologist 45(4):45-46 |
| The movement of the Delawares from their East Coast homeland to
their present locations has been much discussed by Whites. The usual
explanation given is the pressure of European colonists. This paper
offers another version of the events derived from modern Delaware in
northeastern Oklahoma. |
|
1975 Pennsylvania Archaeologist 45(4):47-55 |
|
The dentition of 9 individuals from each of three Western
Pennsylvania sites, Campbell (36F A26), Bunola (36AL4) and Varner
(36GR1), has been measured and analyzed. This report presents both
the descriptive statistics and the results of the partition of the
total phenotypic variation for each antimeric pair of teeth. The
partition of the total phenotypic variation yields estimates of the
amountof variation resulting from genetic and environmental sources
and also yields an estimate of asymmetry. The descriptive statistics
show that the 3 populations are rather homogenous in both size and
variation. The magnitudes of the components of variation, however,
are seen to differ among the sites indicating different sources of
stress or different responses to stress among the populations. In
addition to the presentation of the results of the analysis,
additional aspects of the theory on which the analysis is based are
discussed assuming more ideal conditions. |
| Previous Volume Next Volume |