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1979 Pennsylvania Archaeologist 49(1-2):1-12 The Tioga Point Farm Site Charles L. Lucy and Leroy Vanderpoel |
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Tioga Point Farm (36BR3), a Kipp Island com ponent, site material ,
principally pottery, is discussed and compared to several other
sites. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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1979 Pennsylvania Archaeologist 49(3):1-12 |
| 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. |
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1979 Pennsylvania Archaeologist 49(3):13-30 |
| 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." |
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1979 Pennsylvania Archaeologist 49(3):31-41 |
| 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. |
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1979 Pennsylvania Archaeologist 49(4):1-8 |
| 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. |
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1979 Pennsylvania Archaeologist 49(4):9-23 |
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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. |
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1979 Pennsylvania Archaeologist 49(4):24-29 |
| 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. |
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1979 Pennsylvania Archaeologist 49(4):30-44 |
| 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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