NYSAA Bulletin No. 52 — Archaic Sites: Croton Point & Dogan Point — Passage 2
[Various (1971)] Program, NYSAA Annual Meeting 40 No. 52, July 1971 1 THE ARCHAIC REVISITED A Preface The announcement by Dr. William A. Ritchie at the NYSAA State Conference at Binghampton, April 1618, that he was retiring on May 1 from his long held post as New York State Archaeologist took all of us at that assembly by surprise. Whatever his chronological particulars, Dr. Ritchie does not seem to have diminished in the least in the creative energy that has engendered for New York a volume and depth for regional prehistoric studies that exceeds that of any state in the Union with the possible exception of Alaska. But, whereas that port of entry for humanity has been under investigation for five decades by students from all over the United States and Canada, New York prehistory is a product almost exclusively of the work of New Yorkers, of whom Dr. Ritchie was and is,