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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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Various (1967)
[Various (1967)] of penetration, is at a right angle with the altitude of the point). 9. the corner or bias notched (the axis of the notching is at an acute angle to the altitude of the point). 10. the neck and yoke (these points are either notched o…
Various (1967)
[Various (1967)] the production of a projectile point, changes in proportion, of weight, of choice of material, may came about in a number of ways, from individual fancy or discovery to movement to a new locale or exposure to new ideas. Phases of chr…
Various (1967)
[Various (1967)] Yet it is even closer than that for, while artifacts do not have genes and cannot breed, their makers do and correlation between the artifact tradition and the genealogy of its makers is what a cultural tradition is, by the definitio…
Various (1967)
[Various (1967)] No. 39, March 1967 5 were used as shaft material, and when we find the dowel or tendon stem what we find is the use of reed shafts rather than any stylistic features. Intermediate, hybrid and, possibly, specialized forms are not the …
Various (1967)
[Various (1967)] Its theme is the stemmed point, and a stemmed point, according to those who have learned the art of flint knapping, is harder to shape than a notched-blade point. For the latter, once a satisfactorily thin ovoid or trianguloid blank …
Various (1967)
[Various (1967)] Since we have no prospects of finding such sites, in this area at least, to construct a model of the Taconic tradition we have had to make use of what appears to be the logic of technological and form development, added by some very …
Various (1967)
[Various (1967)] We have taken them from almost every site excavated or collected from in this area - some ten productive sites-and wherever the site collection is large, Taconic tradition points 6 THE BULLETIN No. 39, March 1967 7 8 THE BULLETIN are…
Various (1967)
[Various (1967)] one shoulder is sharply cornered and the other is rounded. Why it did not come into vogue sooner to round both shoulders or why it came into vogue when it did will probably never be ascertained, but it did come into vogue eventually,…
Various (1967)
[Various (1967)] The makers apparently did not know how to thin the stem and their efforts often resulted in a round-based or stud stem, which is characteristic of the first five phases of the tradition. Variety: The Croton Half and Halfs. Asymmetric…
Various (1967)
[Various (1967)] from the stem. Variety 2: The Van Cort Long Lines. The blade edges curve into the stem in a continuous line. Variety 3: The Van Cort Fishtails. The blade edge curves in a continuous line into the stem which then flares out. Very prob…
Various (1967)
[Various (1967)] But what is represented does exist in the concrete form of archaeological specimens. The model here given is certainly subject to revision and amendment. DISCUSSION Ritchie, in his definitive volume The Archaeology of New York State …
Various (1967)
[Various (1967)] Thus the 4750 ± 160 (Y-1761), confirmed by a Geochron Laboratory date of 4725 ± 60 (Gx-0762) obtained by the author on a hearth at the Twombly Landing site, Palisades Park, New Jersey and establishing an order of age for the narrow-b…
Various (1967)
[Various (1967)] the two are approximately equivalent. Carbon 14 labs are not yet ready to release a full calibration of real and C14 ages but it is in making. According to the formula being tentatively used in the meantime the real or annual date of…
Various (1967)
[Various (1967)] Since Ritchie has a date of 4474 ± 300 (Ritchie 1965:91) on a Vosburgian phase hearth at the Bannerman site in Dutchess County and Funk has the aforementioned date of 4220 ± 160 on a narrow -bladed, stemmed point level at Sylvan Lake…
Various (1967)
[Various (1967)] But they do not appear in an early or even Middle Archaic sequence so far reported from the South, on Coe's excavations, at Russell Cave, or at the Stanfield-Worley Rockshelter. The implication is that they are quite late in the sout…
Various (1967)
[Various (1967)] The Taconic tradition is, then, a characteristic theme of narrow-bladed, stemmed, small (with some specimens large enough to indicate use on a different kind of weapon than the small) projectile points of the Late Archaic, stopping s…
Various (1967)
[Various (1967)] from a simpler, more generalized, and more widely disseminated and mobile hunting and fishing manifestation which probably antedated 3000 B. C." This "simpler, more generalized" culture would be the Taconic tradition point makers, bu…
Various (1967)
[Various (1967)] Albans Archaic Site, 1964-65, The Eastern States Archaeological Federation, Bulletin No. 25, May, 1966, Berwyn, Pa. Coe, Joffre L. 1964 The Formative Cultures of the Carolina Piedmont, Transactions of the American Philosophical Socie…
Various (1967)
[Various (1967)] 13 Scheutz, Meredith K. 1957 A Report on Williamson County Mound Material, Bulletin of the Texas Archaeological Society, Bulletin vol. 28, the Texas Archaeological Society, Austin, Texas. Stuiver, Minze and Hans E. Suess 1966 On the …
Various (1967)
[Various (1967)] The material uncovered at this time, consisting primarily of triangular projectile points, chert scrapers and knives, bone awls, celt fragments, pipe fragments and pottery, came from three hillside refuse deposits in which a total of…
Various (1967)
[Various (1967)] The maximum width of the area showing evidence of occupation is approximately 300' at the east end of the site, where the adjoining land slopes upward. This width, however, rapidly diminished to about 100' at the center of the site. …
Various (1967)
[Various (1967)] Although refuse became progressively less abundant and the topsoil color lightened considerably, the subsoil in this trench produced a series of 23 postmolds which extended in a rough east-west line. Further clearing bf the subsoil r…
Various (1967)
[Various (1967)] The location of each of these molds in corresponding positions at opposite ends of the structure suggests that they served as large roof supports. It will also be seen from the illustration that both to the north and to the south of …
Various (1967)
[Various (1967)] No. 39, March 1967 17 bin. If so, it must have existed either earlier or later than the supposed house as it directly overlays what must have been the west end of the rectangular structure. Further suggesting more than one phase of c…
Various (1967)
[Various (1967)] I would hesitate to consider this small dwelling a true Iroquois longhouse, but the basic structure seems to have conformed to the longhouse pattern: a rectangular dwelling with a central bunk-bordered corridor containing hearths. Of…
Various (1967)
[Various (1967)] Rochester, N.Y. MacNeish, Richard S. Iroquois Pottery Types:A Technique for the Study of Iroquois Prehistory. National Museum of Canada, Bulletin No. 124. Ottawa Ricklis, Robert A. "Excavations at the Atwell Fort Site, Madison County…
Various (1967)
[Various (1967)] This stream, which drains through swampy ground, is almost dry during most of the summer and fall. However, a nearby spring could have supplied the Indian occupants of the site with water during nearly all periods of the year. The hu…
Various (1967)
[Various (1967)] The undisturbed subsoil was yellowish brown, pebbly sand at least 5' thick which, except for features 1 and 2, was free of evidence of aboriginal occupation. Six trenches, one 50' by 3', the others 25' by 3', were plotted and dug fro…
Various (1967)
[Various (1967)] The feature contained about 200 fist-sized rocks, cracked by fire. A Normanskill point, a narrow point blank, flint chips, and 3 carbonized acorn cotyledons were associated. A small quantity of charcoal was carefully collected. Most …
Various (1967)
[Various (1967)] 33); a large quartzite spall chopping or pounding tool (fig. 35); an ovate tool of the form usually called a chopper, in actuality probably a hide scraper (fig. 32); and 1 ovate knife (fig. 34). The predominant material used in chipp…