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NYSAA Bulletin No. 26 — Croton Point Midden Excavation — Passage 5 (part 15)

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[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 bladed side-notched point, half an oval winged bannerstone, quartzite spalls and typical hammerstones and mullers. But no pottery occurred in this dump. Kettle Rock is not the only situation in the vicinity of the Croton River mouth where Vinette I-like pottery has been found by us. It was found in two places at our Crawbuckie Beach site on the Hudson just below the mouth of the Croton. The cultural context of this provenience of Vinette I is quite different from the Kettle Rock occurrence. The points of the latter are narrow bladed and stemmed or side-notched and some would be called Lamokoid descriptively although that is certainly not a good classification for them. At Crawbuckie, in so far as we can determine the point association it consists of (1) small, stubby side-notched points that have been called "little" or basic Laurentian by Don Dragoo in his "Archaic Hunters of the Upper Ohio Valley"; (2) thick, digital stemmed points and (3) broad, thick, bell-bottomed knives. The most striking feature of this culture, however, is the very considerable number of coin-sized snub-nosed scrapers that were used.