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NYSAA Bulletin No. 39 — Hudson Valley Shell Midden Dating — Passage 9 (part 3)

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[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, New York". New York State Archeological Association Bulletin No. 26, pp. 1-5. Rochester, N.Y. 18 THE BULLETIN THE PICKLE HILL SITE, WARREN COUNTY, NEW YORK* Paul L. Weinman Thomas P. Weinman Robert E. Funk Auringer-Seelye Chapter Auringer-Seelye Chapter Van Epps-Hartley Chapter Investigations by Paul and Thomas Weinman in 1965 and 1966 on a low, sandy knoll in a swampy valley 2 1/2 miles south of Dunhams Bay, Lake George, N. Y., have produced evidence of occupation by groups of the recently defined late Archaic River phase (Ritchie 1965: 124-131). The site contributes important data on the northerly distribution of the culture, hitherto known only from the lower Mohawkmiddle Hudson Valleys. The site (plate 1) lies on a flat-topped rise, 1 1/2 acres in extent, composed of late-glacial outwash deposits, which is adjoined on the west by a large drumlin known as Pickle Hill. The occupied area covers about 1/2 acre on the northern end of the north south trending knoll, and is about 15" above, and 100 yds. from, the Pickle Hill Road which connects Bay and Ridge Roads. A small stream, beginning along the western edge of the rise, trickles into the Dunhams Bay outlet which is 1 mile to the north.