NYSAA Bulletin No. 52 — Archaic Sites: Croton Point & Dogan Point — Passage 3 (part 25)
[Various (1971)] At the Dennis site in Menands, Albany County, Genesee points occurred below a level, which produced Orient Fishtail points, and above a zone containing predominantly Normanskill points. At this site, however, Snook Kill, Susquehanna Broad, and some Normanskill points were present with the Genesee variety, obscuring to some degree their stratigraphic relationship (Funk n.d.). Essentially the same sequence of Genesee over Normanskill types was found in the small Himmer Rockshelter near Coxsackie, Greene County, by Paul and Thomas Weinman (Weinman and Weinman 1970). The clearest evidence that the Genesee point relates to a definite complex of Late Archaic times, and is not simply a widely diffused point style which infiltrated a number of different phases on the same temporal horizon, as was the case with Vinette 1 pottery in the Northeast (Ritchie 1969b: 223-224) comes from the recent discovery of a small single component site with Genesee points on the Batten Kill in Washington County, N.Y. The Oatman site, excavated by Roger Ashton, lies on a low rise of the flood plain of the creek, and produced a small inventory of obviously associated stone tools comprising, in addition to the Genesee points and a few variant points which resemble the less well-defined stemmed form of the Brewerton phase above referred to, expanded base drills, an ovate knife, a crude end scraper, a few utilized flakes, an anvilstone, two pebble hammerstones, and a simple whetstone (Ashton 1970).