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1979 Pennsylvania Archaeologist 49(1-2):1-12
The Tioga Point Farm Site
Charles L. Lucy and Leroy Vanderpoel
Tioga Point Farm (36BR3), a Kipp Island com­ ponent, site material , principally pottery, is discussed and compared to several other sites.
 
1979 Pennsylvania Archaeologist 49(1-2):13-46
Typology and Chronology of Fluted Points from the Flint Run Area
William M. Gardner and Robert A. Verrey
Paleoindian fluted points from the Thunderbird (44WRII) and surrounding area in Virginia are described and analyzed, based on a typology of  Early (Clovis}, Middle, and Late (Dalton). While it is recognized that our statistical manipulations deal with a limited sample size, the analysis reinforces the dis­ tinction between Clovis and Middle Paleo, a distinction which was originally based on stratigraphic differences at two areas of the Thunderbird site. The study also notes that factors other than temporal or spatial differences, particularly resharpening, may cause variation in point morphology.
 
1979 Pennsylvania Archaeologist 49(1-2):47-51
Is the Middle Woodland Period Within the Monongahela Drainage a Time of Population Decrease or Simply a Problem of Ceramic Temper Confusion?
Harry O. Holstein
It has been assumed that the entire Western Pennsylvania prehistoric ceramic sequence underwent a systematic unilineal replacement of tempers (grit [Early Woodland], limestone [Middle Woodland], and shell [Late Woodland]) which marked the borders of the Woodland time periods. Within the Monongahela River drainage , however, Middle Woodland limestone temper ceramics are in a minority. The author suggests an alternative model to explain this "missing Middle Woodland problem." The model is based upon the premise that shell tempering entered the Monongahela drainage from the southeastern coastal areas during or just prior to the Middle Woodland period.
 
1979 Pennsylvania Archaeologist 49(1-2):52-54
The Mulert Petroglyph Site, 36WH585
James L. Swauger
The Mulert Petroglyph site, 36WH585, Washington County, Pennsylvania, is described and comparisons are made between it an other petroglyph sites studied by the author as part of his continuing investigation of petroglyph sites in the United States east of the Mississippi River.
 
1979 Pennsylvania Archaeologist 49(1-2):55-74
Strategies for Culture Resource Management Research: A Case Study From The Upper Potomac Valley
Russell G. Handsman
The University of Maryland Archaeological Field School in Culture Resource Management completed an inventory and assessment study of a property tract in western Maryland during the summer of 1976. The research concentrated on approximately 40 acres and resulted in the identification and preliminary assess­ ment of a number of previously unknown culture re­ sources. The field strategies used as well as some of the project's results are discussed including implications for the development of a management plan for the Cheaspeake and Ohio Canal National Historic Park.
 

1979 Pennsylvania Archaeologist 49(3):1-12
The Enderle Site: An Historic Burial Locality in Erie Country, Ohio
Mark F. Seeman & Janet Bush

The Enderle site (33ER82) is a small, multicomponent site located in northern Erie County,  Ohio. The latest component at the site represents one of the few well documented historic Indian  burial localities in Ohio. The 3 historic burials, 2 females and a male were all young adults , evidence no major pathology? or trau ma, and appear to have been buried contemporaneously. The burial program contains traditional as well as European elements. Associated trade goods ind!cate an A.D. 1760-1780 chronological placement,which m tum suggests a Wyandot or Delaware affiliation.
 

1979 Pennsylvania Archaeologist 49(3):13-30
The Western Basin Tradition: Algonquin or Iroquois?
David M. Stothers

A new regional tradition, termed the Western Basin Tradition, which extends from approximately 1500 B.C. (Late Archaic) through the end of the Springwells Phase (ca. A.D. 1400 or Late Woodland) has been established. A distinctive and widespread non­ Hopewellian Middle Woodland manifestation, which has been termed the Western Basin Middle Woodland, has been identified and radiocarbon-dated to the time period between approximately 100 B.C. and A.D. 500. The earliest evidence of prehistoric agricultural pur­ suit in the Great Lakes region has been established at approximately A.D. 500 in the Western Lake Erie Basin. This tradition has recently been identified as another Iroquois tradition, which is closely related to the intrusion into the Western Lake Erie Basin of two upper Mississippian cultural manifestations. Both of these upper Mississippian manifestations appear in a fully developed state between A.D. 1200 and 1400. It is believed that these upper Mississippian manifestations (one of which is apparently a Whittlesey focus variant) forced the late Woodland Springwells Phase Iroquois to withdraw into southwestern Ontario to join their "cultural kinfolk."
 

1979 Pennsylvania Archaeologist 49(3):31-41
Roman's Battery: Early Revolutionary War Fortification
J. C. Harrington

This paper is a report on the excavation of Roman's Battery on the Hudson River across from West Point, New York. Besides describing the excavation, a conjectural reconstruction of the battery, based on the excavation, is offered.
 

1979 Pennsylvania Archaeologist 49(4):1-8
Interpreting Finds from a Small Disturbed Site
William A. Turnbaugh and Donald R. Schmidt

The authors closely examined steatite bowl frag­ ments from a terminal Archaic feature in north-central Pennsylvania in order to demonstrate that features and artifacts on severely damaged sites may yield relevant archaeological data.
 

1979 Pennsylvania Archaeologist 49(4):9-23
Early Smoking Pipes in the Susquehanna River Valley
Ira F. Smith, III

The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission has for some years been maintaining a record of Early and Middle Woodland pipes and pipe fragments which have been recovered from that part of Pennsylvania drained by the Susquehanna River and its tributaries. This area includes the Juniata River subdrainage region west into Bedford County, the West Branch Susquehanna west into Clearfield County, the North B ranch Susquehanna to the northern border of Bradford County, the Middle Susquehanna, and the Lower Susquehanna to the Pennsylvania-Maryland border. Blocked-end tubular pipes, cigar-shaped tubular pipes, bent or curved tubular pipes, and platform pipes are discussed and tabulated in the following report.
 

1979 Pennsylvania Archaeologist 49(4):24-29
Intra-Longhouse Spatial Analysis
Mirna Kapches

This paper is an analysis of the problems of attempt­ ing spatial analysis in lroquoian longhouses . Utilizing ethnographic accounts the use of a longhouse is dis­ cussed; then, with this data the problems of recovering activity areas in the houses are reviewed. There are 3 sets of problems which affect spatial analysis, these are : I, the physical features of the house; 2, the social organization of the group occupying the structure ; and3, occupational and post-occupational disturbances. It is concluded that spatial analysis is feasible only if all the factors which may alter the distribution of the materials are clearly understood.
 

1979 Pennsylvania Archaeologist 49(4):30-44
Changing Patterns of Information and Material Flow at the Archaic-Woodland Transition in the Northeastern U.S
Steven R. Simms

The Late Archaic through Middle Woodland stages in the northeastern United States is a period of  transition in the mode of production and in the growth of exchange systems. The present perspective views ex­ change as the mechanical aspect of information and material flow across the cultural landscape and sees this as an important vehicle of cultural evolution. The "diffuse-focal model" of Cleland (1976) provides a framework to correlate changes in information/material flow with change in subsistence and mortuary patterns. This is an exploratory discussion aimed at open­ ing up some new perspectives and recasting some old problems.
 
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