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The Kitchawank, Wappinger, and Lenape peoples who lived here for 7,000+ years
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| Source | Passages | Words | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872) | 401 | 76,522 | Original → |
| Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906) | 223 | 40,085 | Original → |
| Various (1971) | 98 | 18,630 | Original → |
| Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994) | 73 | 12,771 | Original → |
| Various (1967) | 42 | 8,829 | Original → |
| Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962) | 39 | 7,958 | Original → |
| Reginald Pelham Bolton (1922) | 50 | 5,568 | Original → |
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Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)
[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] Mecca. Stones believed impressed with the footprint of Gautama Buddha were considered sacred. Whole mountains such as the Greek Mount Olympus is an example of the ancient belie f in the residence of the gods. Gems, su…
Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)
[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] Jenkins, Stephen, The Story of the Bronx, (1912), G. P. Putnams Sons, New York and London. Kaeser, Edward J., The Archery Range Site, A Preliminary Report, The Bulletin , New York State Archeological Association, No. …
Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)
[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] The grave was 26 inches in depth and the fragile skulls were badly fractured by freezing of the heavy soil. The grave was situated 150 feet from salt marshes on land many times inundated by marine tides. Ten feet sout…
Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)
[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] Most types of tools have been collected on the surface of this small site during the past 70 years, notably among them a small completely grooved axe two inches in length, no doubt but a child's toy tool, and one wond…
Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)
[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] The island, consisting of twenty-seven square miles of surface area, is fairly level and was undoubtedly created by the last ice age. The chief industry has been farming since the island was purchased by New York Stat…
Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)
[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] The area is a gentle rolling plain, rising in a south westerly direction from the river bank which is approximately six feet above the river level. At the present time, the larger portion of the area is under intensiv…
Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)
[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] I have not at the time of this writing had the opportunity to view the collection or read the notes, but hope to do so in the near future. The fact that many aboriginal cultures are represented by the artifact collect…
Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)
[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] We have not as yet found any similar evidences on the west branch of the river as were found on the east branch to strengthen our theory. It is possible we never may, as much of that area of the island has been develo…
Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)
[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] Projectiles: Notched, stemmed and triangular Scrapers: Notched, beveled, triangular, simple end, and side scrapers Drills: Straight, expanded base, notched, T and Y shape *Mortuary Blades: Ovate, Lanceolate, and trian…
Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)
[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] VINETTE I POTTERY* IN THE CROTON RIVER MOUTH AREA Louis A. Brennan Metropolitan & Mid-Hudson Chapters Two weeks ago, (March, 1962), while excavating in the middens at the Kettle Rock end of Croton Point about which we…
Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)
[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] An examination of the literature places this type early in the Early Woodland Period and an inspection of the material itself by John Zakucia of Pennsylvania confirms that similar ware is found immediately succeeding …
Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)
[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] We can, after over two years of digging at this location, assert with considerable conviction that pottery is associated here with little shell only, never with medium to big shell, and there are at least two soil bui…
Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)
[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] Since no later middens occur in this vicinity we must further assume that after this time, conditions at Kettle Rock were never again by reason of climate and/or water conditions, favorable to the establishment of oys…
Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)
[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] At midden Locus 1 at Kettle Rock where Vinette I-like pottery occurred in two spots opposite each other on the midden periphery the meager artifact midden content consisted of a 2 in, long fishtail point, a 3 in. long…
Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)
[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] In an adjacent midden of small shell there occurred a short, broad-bladed, simple stemmed point, a quartzite stemmed point that may fall within a fish-tail or, more likely, an incipient fish-tail phase, a 3 in, narrow…
Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)
[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] We have found just one of these at Kettle Rock and they are certainly not prominent in what we have named the Q tradition along the Hudson, which is the narrow-bladed point tradition and which certainly has roots in t…
Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)
[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] This living pattern, on the evidence of the uniform volume of individual shell heaps that vary but little through the several horizons during which they were laid down, consisted of a basic population unit of perhaps …
Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)
[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] we believe that a series of dates for it from Long Island, up the Hudson and into western New York and into New England would provide what amounts to a road map of the place of origin of eastern pottery and some easte…
Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)
[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] This and later crops stalled our attempts for nearly two and a half years to finish this pit. In the fall of 1961, after again obtaining permission from the landowner, who must remain anonymous to protect the site, we…
Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)
[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] 16 THE BULLETIN pipe is represented by a stem only, but is unusual in that the rear portion of an animal, possibly a lizard, stands out in relief on the top of the stem. It has legs with three toenails on each and a s…
Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)
[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] 7 1 rim 3 4% Cord Wrapped Stick 10% Linear In the January MORGAN CHAPTER NEWSLETTER a graph (4B) shows the number of horizontal lines around the rims of the Ontario Horizontal designed pottery vessels. Four lines are …
Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)
[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] 11 OAKFIELD FORT 7 LITERATURE In addition to the highly significant report on Tule Springs mentioned on page 1, 1962 produced another archaeological study that ought to be in the library of every chapter of NYSAA. Thi…
Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)
[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] "While we cannot demonstrate the emergence of the Archaic out of the antecedent Paleo-Indian stage there is good evidence that the delineation of some lines of affinity will be possible in the future." Issue is taken …
Various (1967)
[Various (1967)] Contents The Taconic Tradition and the Coe Axiom Louis A. Brennan 1 Excavations of a Probable Late Prehistoric Onondaga House Site Robert Ricklis 15 The Pickle Hill Site, Warren County, New York Paul L. Weinman, Thomas P. Weinman, Ro…
Various (1967)
[Various (1967)] 1 THE TACONIC TRADITION AND THE COE AXIOM Louis A. Brennan Metropolitan Chapter THE COE AXIOM In his recently published report (Coe 1964) on the Archaic cultures of inland North Carolina, "The Formative Cultures of the Carolina Piedm…
Various (1967)
[Various (1967)] The discovery establishes-and Coe leaves no doubt that he intends it to establish-that the craftsmen of any given community at any given time were not making a diversity or "hodgepodge" of projectile point styles, but were working to…
Various (1967)
[Various (1967)] Rouse (1960: 313) has used the taxonomic word "mode" for the same concept, defining it thus: "By the term mode is meant any standard concept or custom which governs the behavior of the artisans of a community, which they hand down fr…
Various (1967)
[Various (1967)] As Coe points out in his introduction to his Piedmont report, the "complex" is a delusion. It is not a situation of diversity within 2 THE BULLETIN a cultural-time unit; it is a confusion of cultural-time units, brought about because…
Various (1967)
[Various (1967)] It was assumed that, if a significant number of traits were found to occur together in a series of sites, then they were probably the physical remains of the activities of a particular group of people at a particular period of time. …
Various (1967)
[Various (1967)] In each of the twenty culture zones she has excavated (to a total depth of 24 ft. below former surface level) where projectile points occur, there is one type per zone. The type succession is the same and the dates are approximately …