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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 (1971)
[Various (1971)] 9, Rochester Museum of Arts and Sciences, Rochester.) The Bell-Philhower Site in Sussex County, New Jersey. Prehistory Research Series, Vol. III, No. 2, pp. 147-272, Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis, Ind. Archaeological Explo…
Various (1971)
[Various (1971)] 19 The Promise of Ontario Archaeology, Bulletin of the Society for American Archaeology, Univ. of Toronto, II, pp. 1-21, Toronto. Another Probable Case of Prehistoric Bear Ceremonialism in New York. American Antiquity, Vol. 15, No. 3…
Various (1971)
[Various (1971)] Current Concepts of Continuity and Chronology in New York Prehistory, Eastern States Archeological Federation Bulletin, No. 10, p. 5, Milton, Pa. A Current Synthesis of New York Prehistory. American Antiquity, Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 130…
Various (1971)
[Various (1971)] Indian History of New York State, Part II -The Iroquoian Tribes of New York State. Education Leaflet No. 7, New York State Museum, 20 pp. Albany. A Probable Paleo-Indian Site in Vermont. American Antiquity, Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 249-25…
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[Various (1971)] 20 THE BULLETIN 1955 Arthur Caswell Parker, The Bulletin, New York State Archeological Association, No. 3, pp. 13, Albany. 1955 The Northern Burial Cult, Pennsylvania Archaeologist, Vol. XXV, No. 1, pp. 45-49, Milton, Pa. 1955 The No…
Various (1971)
[Various (1971)] 1-30, Salt Lake City. 1957 Excavations in 1956 on Archaic Sites of Long Island. Eastern States Archeological Federation Bulletin, No. 16, pp. 12-13. Trenton, N.J. 1957 Archaeology: Western Hemisphere. Encyclopaedia Britannica Book of…
Various (1971)
[Various (1971)] 1959 The Eastern Dispersal of Adena (with Don W . Dragoo), American Antiquity, Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 43-50, Salt Lake City, 1959 Excavation of an Owasco Village Site in New York: Report on 1958 Settlement Pattern Studies in the Northea…
Various (1971)
[Various (1971)] 1971 1972 21 Northeastern Crossties with the Arctic. In, Prehistoric Cultural Relations Between the Arctic and Temperate Zones of North America, ed. by John M, Campbell, Arctic Institute of North America, Technical Paper No. 11, pp. …
Various (1971)
[Various (1971)] The Archaeology of Martha's Vineyard: A Framework for the Prehistory of Southern New Eng land. A Study in Coastal Ecology and Adaptation. The Natural History Press. The American Museum of Natural History. 270 pp. Garden City, New Yor…
Various (1971)
[Various (1971)] In the 1950's the United States Army Corps of Engineers proposed to dam the Allegheny River at Kinzua, Pennsylvania, to prevent downriver flooding and to control the navigation level of the river. Since the proposed dam would create …
Various (1971)
[Various (1971)] The elevation of the sites is 1325-1330 ft. and thus falls within the flood pool created by the dam at Kinzua. The first area found and later excavated was called Witchs Walk #l. This area had not been previously discovered due to th…
Various (1971)
[Various (1971)] It now appears that the site borders on the edge of an old river channel and does not extend across it. The area originally excavated appears to be the western half of the site, with the eastern limits extending at least 150 ft. from…
Various (1971)
[Various (1971)] Most features could not be excavated during the 1967 field session and it was only in the Fall of 1968 that the water level dropped sufficiently to allow excavation of the features. PHYSIOGRAPHY AND GEOLOGY OF THE ALLEGHENY PLATEAU T…
Various (1971)
[Various (1971)] It would appear that the overburden must have been deposited fairly rapidly (five to six successive floodings) since there is no layering of silt and organic material and very little organic material is scattered through the silt. Th…
Various (1971)
[Various (1971)] Two are located across the Allegheny River from Witchs Walk (Witchs Walk #1, Witchs Walk #2), one is located in Onoville, New York, and one is located across the border at Kinzua, Pennsylvania. A tentative analysis of the sites excav…
Various (1971)
[Various (1971)] Fewer than 20 out of the 450 post molds recorded had diameters larger than .35 ft. The diameter of these larger post molds was usually .8 ft. It was impossible in most cases to determine how far the post molds penetrated the subsoil …
Various (1971)
[Various (1971)] THE BULLETIN are oriented with these features (post mold pattern in 0N10W and 20N50E). All of the exterior post molds for the three features described are between 0.18 and 0.25 ft. in diameter and 0.8 ft, apart. Feature 4: This featu…
Various (1971)
[Various (1971)] It appears that this structure was either divided in half or an addition added at a later date (post mold pattern in 10N10W, 20N10W). Within this structure were ten features, one of which showed evidence of a fire stain. The present …
Various (1971)
[Various (1971)] While there appears to be a gradation in size and depth, a closer examination revealed that there were at least four classes of features using the criteria of size, depth, vertical profile, and contents. Class 1: 15 large (2.0 - 5.0 …
Various (1971)
[Various (1971)] is evidence for a close community settlement pattern, with three circular structures adjacent to each other and the wall. The spacing of small posts suggests that these structures were covered with material which was probably 1 ft. w…
Various (1971)
[Various (1971)] The length of 17 points varied from 17.0 mm, to 46.0 mm.; the mean is 28.5 mm., median 28.0 mm., and mode 28.0 mm. The width of 25 points varied from 17.0 mm. to 28.0 mm.; the mean, median, and mode is 22.0 mm. The thickness of 46 po…
Various (1971)
[Various (1971)] A convex sided type of point with either a straight, convex, or concave base represents 75.0% of the sample. A visual inspection of the flint utilized indicates that it is either of the Onondaga or Lockport Dolomite Formations which …
Various (1971)
[Various (1971)] Knives: The single specimen is bifacially worked but has wear marks only on one edge. It may have been hafted. Utilized flakes: Over 1300 flint flakes were recovered, of which only 15 specimens appeared to have been utilized. ROUGH A…
Various (1971)
[Various (1971)] Comments on vessel size and surface finish are based on two completely restored vessels and three partially restored vessels. The criteria used to analyze the pottery vessels are exterior surface finish, interior surface finish, temp…
Various (1971)
[Various (1971)] 1 2 1 It would appear that most, if not all, of the vessels were cord roughened at one stage of their manufacture and. latter certain areas were smoothed. Criterion 2: Interior Surface Finish. The interior surface finish was smoothed…
Various (1971)
[Various (1971)] The following techniques were used to decorate the exterior of 64 vessels; incising, punctating, dentate stamping, bossing, cord-wrapped stick impressions, or a combination of incising with the other techniques. The technique of deco…
Various (1971)
[Various (1971)] The design motifs a-f, h, j, k, 1, and o are examples of the design motifs on Ontario Oblique pottery which MacNeish defines as ". . , bands of oblique lines either parallel or opposed on the neck and rim on globular-bowled vessels" …
Various (1971)
[Various (1971)] The lip profile was as follows: flat lip, 60 vessels; rounded lip, 27 vessels; pinched lip, 3 vessels; and indeterminant lip, 5 vessels. The predominant characteristic is a flat lip, with a frequency of 63.0%. Criterion 7: Rim Profil…
Various (1971)
[Various (1971)] Middleport Criss-Cross Owasco Other Undecorated Vessels Ripley Plain Other TABLE 2 POTTERY TYPES f % 43 45.4 5 5.2 4 4.2
Various (1971)
[Various (1971)] ECOLOGY OF THE SITE The ecology of this site is presently under investigation. Soil samples were collected from many of the features. These are being processed by water flotation. The result is a sample of the seed material which wil…