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NYSAA Bulletin No. 52 — Archaic Sites: Croton Point & Dogan Point — Passage 3 (part 24)

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[Various (1971)] At the Frontenac Island site the projectile point inventory included 104 broad, stemmed points, some clearly identifiable with the Genesee type, others equitable with the ruder and less well defined stemmed form found in the Brewerton assemblages at the Robinson and Oberlander No. 1 sites (Ritchie 1940: 29, 66) and at the Morrison's Island-1 site in Canada (Kennedy 1966: 105, 124). Sixteen examples, most of them conforming to the Genesee type, occurred with other items of grave goods in 10 of the burials, including Burial 79, earlier referred to (Ritchie 1945: 48-80, Plate 7, fig. 16). This definite association with mortuary offerings of the Frontenac phase indicates the infiltration of this point style into the already composite Frontenac culture, probably relatively late, as it evidently persisted into the succeeding Frost Island phase, present in the upper level at the Frontenac Island site. At the O'Neil site, located only a few miles northeast of Frontenac Island, three Genesee points were found in the lower levels of Stratum 2, the Frost Island component, C-14 dated at 1250 B.C. ± 100 years (Y-1274) (Ritchie 1965a: 155-163, Plate 51, fig. 22; Ritchie and Funk n.d.a). The stratigraphic and chronological position of the Genesee point seems therefore well established in central New York, and there is supporting evidence in eastern New York, where this point type has a lesser representation.