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Pennsylvania Archaeologist 83(1):1-2 |
| Site 36WM705, referred to in this report as the Johnston locus,
was excavated by Kristen Beckman in 1989- 1990. The Johnston locus,
a Protohistoric period site radiocarbon dated to ca. 1640-60 A.D,
produced a unique artifact assemblage which included gunflints,
humpbacked knives, and triangular projectile points. It provides a
rare look at a Protohistoric camp site in southwestern Pennsylvania.
No other sites of this type from this period have been investigated
and reported in this area to date. |
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Pennsylvania Archaeologist 83(1):22-44 |
| Industrialization and urbanization in the city of Philadelphia
led to dramatic changes to the natural landscape. Like most Native
American archaeological sites lost in urban settings, place names
for specific events, locations, and landscape features are often
replaced or forgotten. This paper discusses the results of PennDOT's
ongoing archaeological investigations of the I-95/GIR Improvement
Corridor Project and identifies a link between Native American sites
and Lenape place names. While it may not be possible to directly
associate Lenape place names with the six identified Native American
sites, their relationship evokes imagery of a forgotten landscape
that is critical for engaging local communities to understanding
Philadelphia's Native inhabitants |
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Pennsylvania Archaeologist 83(1):45-63 |
| This paper documents a concentration of Archaic period
archaeological sites located along dividing ridges between the
Chartiers Creek, Cross Creek, and Buffalo Creek drainages in western
Washington County, Pennsylvania. This study is based on 3 1 0
diagnostic surface-collected artifacts from 25 sites in the study
area. The results document some interesting settlement and lithic
usage patterns that are not evident at lower elevations in these
drainages. In addition to heavy Late Archaic use of these sites,
Early Archaic diagnostics, which are generally rare in western
Pennsylvania, make up an unusually high percentage (41.3%) of the
assemblage. All 25 sites in the study area contain an Early Archaic
component. Evidence of Paleoindian and Woodland period activity on
these drainage divide sites was nearly non-existent. |
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Pennsylvania Archaeologist 83(1):64-78 |
| In the late 1960s, excavations were conducted at the Crow Mound
(36GR36), in Greene County, Pennsylvania, by the Carnegie Museum
under a contract with the National Park Service. This investigation
determined that the Crow Mound was likely a small Adena burial mound
constructed late in the Early Woodland period. A lack of diagnostic
artifacts, and the poor condition of potential burials and
cremations, makes further conclusions difficult. Approximately I
,500 years after the mound was first constructed, people of the Late
Prehistoric Monongahela Culture intruded at least six burials into
the top of the Crow Mound. After excavations were completed, a
report on the project was submitted to the National Park Service,
but never formally published. This paper for the first time
publishes these findings for a wider audience.. |
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Pennsylvania Archaeologist 83(2):1-15 |
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The Gower site (36S06) was originally excavated from
December 1939 to March 1940 by a New Deal-funded work relief crew
under the direction of Edgar E. Augustine. The full findings from
this site have never been published, although its unique settlement
layout-a circular village lacking a clear central plaza-has puzzled
a number of recent scholars. This article presents a detailed
overview of the extant field records and artifact collections, as
well two new radiocarbon assays obtained from the site. The site is
also considered in terms of recent methodological and theoretical
approaches outlined by the author in the book Circular Villages
of the Monongahela Tradition. |
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Pennsylvania Archaeologist 83(2):16-28 |
| Twenty-eight radiocarbon dates are available for the Quarry
site, a mid-16th century A.D. Shenks Ferry tradition site in
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Date distributions for this site
fall into two groups and a two-part chronology of cultural events is
offered to explain the site's date profile. |
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Pennsylvania Archaeologist 83(2):29-51 |
| Final twist and other cordage attributes
(e.g., ply formula, cordage diameter, strand diameter, and angle of
twist) have the potential to demonstrate differences between
neighboring populations under certain circumstances; however, more
directly they are proxies for the learning networks of spinners and
weavers that produced and used cordage. Within the Upper Ohio River
valley, cord-marked ceramics impressed with final S or final Z-twist
cordage have been analyzed and compared with sites of the
Monongahela, Fort Ancient, McFate, and Wellsburg cultural traditions
in attempts to understand the dynamics of intercultural interaction
among these various Late Woodland (ca. A.D. 400-1050) and Late
Prehistoric period (ca. A.D. 1050-1580) populations. This study
examines the cordage attributes and the distribution of final twist
types from cordage impressed ceramics at Scarem-Kramer (36WH22), a
Middle Monongahela phase village site in Washington County,
Pennsylvania. These data contribute to a discussion of the potential
visibility of learning networks at a local scale, which may have
implications for intercultural interaction between groups in this
region. |
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Pennsylvania Archaeologist 83(2):52-64 Data Retrieval From an Unprovenienced Museum Collection: The Ludy Collection at the University of Pennsylvania Museum Carolyn D. Dillian |
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Many museums hold collections with limited provenience data. At the
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology,
one group of artifacts from Boyertown, Pennsylvania, was researched
to gather additional information regarding the collection and
collector with the goal of refining locational data. This holds
benefit as an example of the kind of research that can be done on
unprovenienced collections and has broad applicability for museum
studies. |
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