NYSAA Bulletin No. 107 — Dogan Point Archaeological Site — Passage 19
[Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)] archaeologically unexplored areas of the site, the chances of missing all male-oriented activity are very small. Therefore, the compelling predominance of ceramic vessels and the relative absence of chipped stone at Mulcaster Island East leads one to speculate on the existence and nature of gender-specific sites. Is it possible that the Mulcaster Island East Site was a women's site? More specifically, with the possible association of the ground and rough stone artifacts with a pigment production activity, and the use of pigment generally believed to have been associated with acts of spiritualism and ritualism, could this site have been reserved for such truly female -specific and ceremonially important functions and mysteries as menstruation or birth? Furthermore, the special use of the site appears to have remained unchanged from the middle Point Peninsula to the late Owasco periods-a span of approximately 1200