NYSAA Bulletin No. 107 — Dogan Point Archaeological Site — Passage 29
[Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)] Raccoon, Black Bear, Opossum, Striped Recovered from both historic and prehistoric contexts were 2787 bones (Table 4). Fish bones numbered 220, accounting for 8% of the vertebrate remains. Their recovery unquestionably is due to the persistent use of 1/16th-in hardware cloth and the sorting of that material. Fish present include American Eel, White Perch, Striped Bass, Black Seabass, cod, and Oyster Toadfish. All these 31 The Bulletin Table 2. Projectile Point Metrics. Table 3. Invertebrates Recovered from 1987-1993 Dogan Point Excavations. 32 Spring 1994 No. 107 Table 4. Number of Identified Specimens per Vertebrate Taxon at Dogan Point (Whyte 1994) Skunk, Woodchuck, Eastern Chipmunk, Beaver, cattle, pig, shrews, moles, rats, and voles. Deer bone fragments, 159 in number, far outnumber those of other taxa, while over half the mammal species are represented by only one or two bones. More than half the vertebrate remains come from the "giant oyster" deposits (Whyte 1994). Seasonal indicators are deer antlers attached to the frontal bone, mandibles, and alveoli of approximately six- and eighteen-month-old deer, and the presence of the anadromous Striped Bass, both indicative of late fall through spring site use. Contradicting this conclusion is the absence of Sturgeon and other anadromous species (Whyte 1994).