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.2007 Pennsylvania Archaeologist 77(1):1-29
Moving People and Resources Across Pennsylvania's Prehistoric Landscape: Investigations at 36JU104
Paul A. Raber

In the Ridge and Valley region of Pennsylvania, gaps in the ridges have functioned through time as critical places in the landscape, controlling the routes of most travel through the region. Sites located near these gaps offer a distinctive view of regional patterns of resource use and group movement through time. The investigation of one such site, 36JU104, in the Lewistown Narrows, has revealed a record of over 8500 years of short-term camps or bivouacs related to regional travel that informs us about the scale and pattern of both local and exotic resource use, and the changing patterns of hunter-gatherer economic and social organization.
 
2007 Pennsylvania Archaeologist 77(1):30-52
The Late Prehistoric Components at the Godwin-Portman Site, 36AL39
Richard L. George
The Godwin-Portman site, 36AL39, was test excavated in 1968 by the Carnegie Museum o f Natural History and salvage excavated in 1 978-79 by volunteers from several SPA chapters. This prolific, multicomponent site was destroyed in 1979. Recovered data suggest several Late Prehistoric occupations at the site, including a possible Fort Ancient presence during the 15th century A.D. Excavated and surface collected artifacts from the Late Prehistoric components are discussed, as well as subsistence related data.
 
2007 Pennsylvania Archaeologist 77(1):53-70
Facing Monday Creek Rockshelter (33H0414): A Late Woodland Hunting Location in Southern Ohio
Staci E. Spertzel, Elliot M. Abrams, AnnCorinne Freter, and Gregory S. Springer
The use of rockshelters in southeastern Ohio intensified during the Late Woodland period as part of an expanded upland resource procurement strategy. The excavation of Facing Monday Creek Rockshelter (33H0414) in Hocking County, Ohio documents this resource expansion process. Data in the form of lithics, ceramics, and faunal and floral materials from the rockshelter are presented. Based on these data, it is hypothesized that Late Woodland peoples, living in increasingly larger residential settlements within relatively fixed territories, increased the distances they traveled to procure resources, thus expanding the use of rockshelters as temporary hunting stations.
 
2007 Pennsylvania Archaeologist 77(1):71-76
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2007 Pennsylvania Archaeologist 77(2):1-33
A Preliminary Report on the Paleoindian Assemblage from Indian Camp Run No. 1 (36F065)
Andrew J. Myers and Malinda Moses Myers

Indian Camp Run No. 1 (36F065) is a shallow stratified multicomponent archaeological site located along the Allegheny River in Forest County, Pennsylvania. Ongoing excavations at the site have produced a number of suspected Terminal Pleistocene age tools found within buried stratigraphic contexts. One whole fluted point is included in the sample and has tentatively been identified as a Barnes point, a type which dates to approximately 10600 rcy B.P. Some of the other tools recovered may relate to later Paleoindian complexes. This paper examines the proposed Paleoindian assemblage and reviews environmental conditions in the area during the Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene transition.
 

2007 Pennsylvania Archaeologist 77(2):34-69
An Inventory of Western Pennsylvania Rockshelters
William H. Tippins

In early 2001 , the author initiated a study of rockshelter sites in western Pennsylvania based on information contained in the Pennsylvania Archaeology Site Survey (PASS) files housed at the  Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh. The results of this investigation showed that as of March 14, 2003, there were 611 rockshelter sites recorded in the 24 county study area. Statistical analysis was conducted on the study data on a wide range of site characteristics and prehistoric utilization variables. The results support the widely held theory that most rockshelters in the study area were used primarily as short-term camps, with peak utilization occurring during the Late Woodland/Late Prehistoric periods. The study also served to document investigator recording patterns and the disturbed condition of many rockshelter sites.
 

2007 Pennsylvania Archaeologist 77(2):70-75
Further Discussion of Drew Tradition Radiocarbon Dates, Migration, Mea Culpa, Etc
Richard L. George

This paper continues a discussion on aspects of the Monongahela Drew tradition. Previous manuscript errors are corrected, questionable radiocarbon dates are reviewed, and challenges to proposed theories are discussed. In addition, a possible new Drew tradition pottery trait is presented.
 

2007 Pennsylvania Archaeologist 77(2):76-78
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