[Various (1967)] Rouse (1960: 313) has used the taxonomic word "mode" for the same concept, defining it thus: "By the term mode is meant any standard concept or custom which governs the behavior of the artisans of a community, which…

…At Tottenville, Staten Island, New York, a zoomorphic limonite concretion was recovered from a beach embankment shell deposit in association with early Bowmans Brook material. Indian cultures of the southwest, particularly the Zuni of New Mexico, owned and highly valued…

[Various (1967)] Since we have no prospects of finding such sites, in this area at least, to construct a model of the Taconic tradition we have had to make use of what appears to be the logic of technological and…

[Various (1967)] Materials: 1, 6, 9, 11, 12, 14, 15, 18-21, 27, 32, Fort Ann flint; 3, 22, 28-30, Onondaga flint; 5, 8, 16, Normanskill flint; 7, 13, 25, 34, Little Falls? flint; 2, 23, Kalkberg? flint; 4…

[Various (1967)] It was assumed that, if a significant number of traits were found to occur together in a series of sites, then they were probably the physical remains of the activities of a particular group of people at a…

[Various (1967)] No. 39, March 1967 5 were used as shaft material, and when we find the dowel or tendon stem what we find is the use of reed shafts rather than any stylistic features. Intermediate, hybrid and, possibly, specialized…

[Various (1967)] At Pickle Hill, 65% of all artifacts were whole, fragmentary, or unfinished projectile points. Scrapers, such as those found at Pickle Hill, are usually assumed to have been used in working hides, but a more likely function in…

[Various (1967)] one shoulder is sharply cornered and the other is rounded. Why it did not come into vogue sooner to round both shoulders or why it came into vogue when it did will probably never be ascertained, but it…

[Various (1967)] The Taconic tradition is, then, a characteristic theme of narrow-bladed, stemmed, small (with some specimens large enough to indicate use on a different kind of weapon than the small) projectile points of the Late Archaic, stopping short…

[Various (1967)] No. 39, March 1967 17 bin. If so, it must have existed either earlier or later than the supposed house as it directly overlays what must have been the west end of the rectangular structure. Further suggesting more…

[Various (1967)] A very similar range in projectile point forms, the majority being of Normanskill type, is evident in the components at all three sites. The retouched flake scrapers at Pickle Hill have not been found on other sites of…

[Various (1967)] from the stem. Variety 2: The Van Cort Long Lines. The blade edges curve into the stem in a continuous line. Variety 3: The Van Cort Fishtails. The blade edge curves in a continuous line into the stem…

[Various (1967)] Although refuse became progressively less abundant and the topsoil color lightened considerably, the subsoil in this trench produced a series of 23 postmolds which extended in a rough east-west line. Further clearing bf the subsoil revealed an…

[Various (1967)] This stream, which drains through swampy ground, is almost dry during most of the summer and fall. However, a nearby spring could have supplied the Indian occupants of the site with water during nearly all periods of the…

[Various (1967)] I would hesitate to consider this small dwelling a true Iroquois longhouse, but the basic structure seems to have conformed to the longhouse pattern: a rectangular dwelling with a central bunk-bordered corridor containing hearths. Of course no…

…The occupation was evidently in one of the periods when the hard-shell clam was absent from the north side of the local bay. Judging from the nature of the food remains in these pits, it was a season when…

[Various (1967)] The feature contained about 200 fist-sized rocks, cracked by fire. A Normanskill point, a narrow point blank, flint chips, and 3 carbonized acorn cotyledons were associated. A small quantity of charcoal was carefully collected. Most of the…

[Various (1967)] But what is represented does exist in the concrete form of archaeological specimens. The model here given is certainly subject to revision and amendment. DISCUSSION Ritchie, in his definitive volume The Archaeology of New York State (1965) has…

[Various (1967)] Rochester, N.Y. MacNeish, Richard S. Iroquois Pottery Types:A Technique for the Study of Iroquois Prehistory. National Museum of Canada, Bulletin No. 124. Ottawa Ricklis, Robert A. "Excavations at the Atwell Fort Site, Madison County, New York…

[Various (1967)] Its theme is the stemmed point, and a stemmed point, according to those who have learned the art of flint knapping, is harder to shape than a notched-blade point. For the latter, once a satisfactorily thin ovoid…

[Various (1967)] 33); a large quartzite spall chopping or pounding tool (fig. 35); an ovate tool of the form usually called a chopper, in actuality probably a hide scraper (fig. 32); and 1 ovate knife (fig. 34). The predominant material…

…Isolated pots have been recorded far removed from pits or shell heaps on eastern Long Island. This land has been under cultivation for 250 years. There were no Indian habitations in Orient when the first settlers occupied the area. This…

[Various (1967)] The undisturbed subsoil was yellowish brown, pebbly sand at least 5' thick which, except for features 1 and 2, was free of evidence of aboriginal occupation. Six trenches, one 50' by 3', the others 25' by 3', were…

…Thus, the sequence of heaps of larger oyster shell lying under, and separated from the smaller shells by soil horizons must be in the order of dates we have estimated, stretching back to about 6000 B. P.