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1965 Pennsylvania Archaeologist 35(1):1-3 Elk Antler Effigies Russell Royer |
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Three specimens of carved elk antler effigies arc discussed. These
figurines are believed to be the first examples of their kind found
in Pennsylvania: Details of their recovery are given, and their
original purpose is conjectured. |
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1965 Pennsylvania Archaeologist 35(1):4-18 A Stratified Site At Lake George Robert E. Funk, Paul Weinman & Thomas P. Weinman |
| Excavation of the Weinman Site on Lake George, N: Y., is
reported. One of the few stratified sites in the Lake George area .
The Weinman Site is shown to be of significance in the reevaluation
of the developmental chronology in New York. Several other
previously excavated sites in the Lake George area are discussed in
their relationship to the stratified context data from the Weinman
Site. Data from this site also contribute to our current knowledge
of the Archaic Stage of .Eastern New York, and has provided the
first evidence of a regional late Middle Woodland occupation at Lake
George. |
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1965 Pennsylvania Archaeologist 35(1):19-24,56 The Late Woodland In Central New York Charles F. Hayes, III |
| As more and more investigation is accomplished by a growing
number of both professional and non-professional archaeologists in
Central New York, it is apparent that there will have to be a
reevaluation of the existing state of archaeological knowledge
pertinent to the Late Woodland Period. Both the advent of
radiocarbon dating and the large number of sites being documented
yearly have made the archaeologist aware of an atmosphere of
cultural continuity as well as complexity during a period which
includes what are termed the Owasco and Prehistoric Iroquois
cultures. Together these cultures occupied a time span extending
approximately from A.D. 900-1550. |
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1965 Pennsylvania Archaeologist 35(1):25-33 On The Recovery Of Burial Number Two At The Sasqua Hill Site, East Norwalk, Connecticut Bernard W. Powell |
| The primary, flexed, adult inhumation considered here was
removed in toto during the final phase of field work at the coastal
Connecticut site called Sasqua Hill. The specimen was excavated and
prepared as exhibit material. It is now in the permanent collection
of the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, in New York.
Field techniques and methods of preparation are reviewed as a guide
to future recovery of such specimens. |
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1965 Pennsylvania Archaeologist 35(1):50-56 The Sugar Grove Petroglyphs Site, 36 Gr 5 James L. Swauger |
| The Sugar Grove Petroglyphs Site, 36 Gr 5, Greene County,
Pennsylvania, is described, its motifs detailed, and comparisons
made between it and other petroglyph sites studied and published or
in press by the author as a result of his present investigation of
the petroglyph sites of the Upper Ohio Valley. |
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1965 Pennsylvania Archaeologist 35(2):59-73 |
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The Cornplanter Project consisted of a combined study that involved
aspects of physical anthropology, archaeology, and ethnology as
these related to the disinterment of 361 graves located in
Cornplanter Grant Cemetery. The Project was conducted by the State
University of New York at Buffalo during the summer of 1964. |
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1965 Pennsylvania Archaeologist 35(2):74-92 |
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This paper is a report on the osteological information obtained
during the pilot study involving the burial relocations at the
Cornplanter Cemetery in northern Pennsylvama m the late summer of
1964. The pilot study was conducted and sponsored by the Department
of Anthropology of the State University of New York at Buffalo and
supported by a National Park Service research grant; it proved
successful enough to warrant a much more comprehensive study the
following summer at the Allegany Reservation cemeteries in southern
New York. We used a combined osteological-archaeological-ethnological
approach to gather information concerning modern Seneca physical
type, general health, burial patterns and artifact associations.
Since a considerable number of the burials were deceased of known
sex and age at time of death, we had in this study an invaluable
opportunity to test ageing and sexing criteria as used in the
laboratory on archaeological remains. The skeletons were studied to
learn about the total population profile : demography, stature and
proportion, dental patterns,general morphology, genetic variations (
anomalies ), and paleopathology. This provided important comparative
data relative to the terminal phase ( the last 150 years ) of an
800-year temporal study of Seneca skeletal remains which had been
undertaken for my doctoral dissertation. It helped cast light on
biological affinities and microevolutionary changes. |
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1965 Pennsylvania Archaeologist 35(2):93-100 |
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In October 1965 the first, and insofar as is presently known, only
petroglyph from NewJersey and the Delaware River Valley came to
light on a drought exposed river beach in Walpack Township, Sussex
County, New Jersey. The petroglyph bearing 21 beautifully preserved
and readily identifiable figures ( some with cup shaped heads ) and
12 non-identifiable forms, represents a more easterly extension of
this artifact than had heretofore been known. This petroglyph is
unique in that its stick-figure art seems to have closer affinities
with pictographs found in the western United States rather than with
the usual two-dimensional outline figures that appear in
Pennsylvania, West Virginia and other neighboring state petroglyphs.
The pecked stone, weighing about one-half ton, has been successfully
removed to the Seton Hall University Museum to prevent its
submersion and irretrievable loss once the Tacks Island Dam is
completed. |
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1965 Pennsylvania Archaeologist 35(2):101-104 |
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The Elco Hill Petroglyphs Site, 36 Wh 79, is located, described, and
its motifs illustrated. Comments as to its spurious nature are put
forth. This account, in addition to its being a documentation of the
site, adds to our knowledge concerning the means and details by
which petroglyphs not made by American Indians can be properly
identified. |
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1965 Pennsylvania Archaeologist 35(3-4):105-117 |
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The 1964 excavations at Gromiller Cave, Blair Co., Pa., are
described as these were conducted and recorded by various members of
the Sheep Rock Chapter No. 15 of the Society.Objects recovered are
listed by provenience units. The character of the cave fill as well
as features associated with cave occupations are described.
Hypotheses are offered concerning prehistoric cave use patterns and
upon the cultural affiliations of the artifacts found. |
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1965 Pennsylvania Archaeologist 35(3-4):118-133 |
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The Tocks Island Archaeological Survey Project is reported in
preliminary form. The Project developed into a multi-site survey of
a portion of the Delaware River Valley of Northeastern Pennsylvania.
The proposed Tocks Island Reservoir one of the Federal river basin
projects currently subject to archaeological investigation, is seen
to be centered upon !'n area richly laden with prehistoric sites. A
historical review of archaeological work previously accomplished is
provided, field methods and problems are discussed, excavations and
testings put through by the Survey are reviewed and new data is
presented. The Survey and 1ts findings are shown to lend weight to
and emphasize the need for further study of the materials recovered
as well as the critical need for further site excavations of a
specific nature. Time for such urgent excavations is short. Problems
of importance are outlined and synthesis statements concerning the
long prehistoric continuum are offered. The total Survey record is
one that includes evidence which covers the entire span from
Paleo-Indian to historic Fort Hyndshaw. Major representations are
particularly marked for the Archaic and the Late Woodland periods. |
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1965 Pennsylvania Archaeologist 35(3-4):134-138 |
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The writer's excavations to date on the Horn blower II Site, and
two other stratified sites on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, have
contributed significant new data to the problem of coastal ecology
and adaptation in the Northeast. They have also laid the firm
foundations of a radiocarbon dated cultural sequence ranging from
Late Archaic to Late Woodland in southern New England. The "small
stemmed point" has been given a much broader provenience than
appears to be the case in eastern New York, with which the Martha's
Vineyard sequence can be shown to be in part correlative. |
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1965 Pennsylvania Archaeologist 35(3-4):139-160 |
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The considerable mass of new data accumulated by the writer and
other researchers work ing in the Hudson River Valley since 1958 has
led him to suggest a cultural-historical framework for the Archaic
Stage. This framework incorporates certain revisions of the areal
scheme first proposed by Ritchie (1958) and subsequently developed
by him in further publication (1965). The proposed sequence is based
upon stratigraphy and begins in the upper Hudson Valley with the
Vergennes Complex of the Laurentian Tradition. Material that
probably represents an analogous Laurentian or Laurentian-like
manifestation in the lower Valley has been radiocarbon dated in
excess of 4600 B.C. This material came from the lowest levels of the
Sylvan Lake Rockshelter near Poughkeepsie. |
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