1992 Pennsylvania Archaeologist 62(1):1-11
Susquehannock Trade Northward to New France Prior to A.D. 1608: A Popular Misconception
James F. Pendergast

First-hand accounts of John Smith's encounter with the Susquehannock Iroquoians and the Tockwogh band of the Nanticoke Algonquians at the head of Chesapeake Bay in July 1608 are contrasted with an erroneous conclusion long proffered by American, British, and Canadian scholars, commencing as early as 1747 who would have the Susquehannocks trading for European goods with the French on the St. Lawrence River and in the Strait of Belle Isle.
 

The Long site collection consists of a large number of quartzite broadspears, stemmed points, and bifaces in various stages of reduction. The broadspears are similar to Savannah River types and date to the end of the Late Archaic Period. The collection shows the complete sequence of hiface reduction which began with a large edged flake and ended with either broadspears or narrow-bladed stemmed points. Similar broadspears and bifaces of quartzite are seen at a number of other sites in southeastern Pennsylvania and seem to show similar reduction sequences. The development of a local quartzite-based broadspear technology in southeastern Pennsylvania is typical of other similarly dated localized lithic technologies of the Pennsylvania Piedmont.
 

Many archaeologists have not considered the interpretation of decorations on bone and antler artifacts. This article describes a series of decorated bone and antler artifacts from the Bell site, a Late Woodland site in northwestern Pennsylvania. Many incised designs and alterations of the bone artifacts seem to have been done for aesthetic reasons. However, others may have been related to use of bone artifacts as tally devices or musical instruments. Archaeologists are urged to describe and consider the interpretation of decorated bone artifacts from other sites in Pennsylvania.
 

Subsequent to the publication of the Overpeck Site report in the Pennsylvania Archaeologist (Vol. 50, No. 3, 1980), additional Late Woodland pottery collections from Overpeck have become available for description and analysis. This supplementary report provides a brief history of the archaeological investigations that took place at the Overpeck site and presents data and illustrations of Late Woodland pottery specimens not presented in the 1980 report.
 

One of the least understood prehistoric periods in southwestern Pennsylvania is the 400 to 500 years between Middle Woodland Hopewell and Late Prehistoric Monongahela. Because of this data hiatus, the Backstrom Side Notched point is proposed as an Early Late Woodland cultural marker. Morphological attributes are described and relationships with other Early Late Woodland phases are discussed. Possible significant is a distributional pattern that generally duplicates that of Monongahela villages.