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…Brennan et al. (1962)] Number 26 ******************************************************************************************** Contents Notes 1 Hudson River Valley Projectile Point Correlation Workshop, Sept. 22, 1962 Mauck Brammer 4 Fossils and Concretions from Coastal New York Sites Edward J. Kaesar 5 A Double Child Burial in Orient…

…Brennan et al. (1962)] VINETTE I POTTERY* IN THE CROTON RIVER MOUTH AREA Louis A. Brennan Metropolitan & Mid-Hudson Chapters Two weeks ago, (March, 1962), while excavating in the middens at the Kettle Rock end of Croton Point about which…

[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] Drieger wrote "Looking back, one may well wonder why the original discovery of the Tule Springs locality in 1933, with its evidences of contemporaneity of man and extinct Pleistocene fauna as reported in that…

[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] The twelve heated, steam -producing stones of the Sweat Lodge Ceremony of the Delaware were considered sacred in the diagnosis and treatment of sickness (Wallace, 1961, pp. 73-74). The Burnt Offering Ceremony called…

…Ralph Solecki that a representative Hudson River Valley sampling would be desirable for the Metropolitan Chapter, to be housed at Columbia University, Brennan reported, had led him to the conclusion that a group effort at classification and synthesis would be…

[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] We have not as yet found any similar evidences on the west branch of the river as were found on the east branch to strengthen our theory. It is possible we never may, as…

…At the present time, the larger portion of the area is under intensive cultivatio n and excavation is impossible. A few sample holes have been dug in between seedings, but due to the nature of the soil, nothing definite was…

…PROJECTILE POINT CORRELATION WORKSHOP, SEPT. 22, 1962 Mauck Brammer Metropolitan Chapter At a meeting of thirty representatives of five chapters of the NYSAA at the Mid-Hudson Chapter House, Rhinebeck, N. Y., on September 22, Louis A. Brennan of the…

…A few "strike-a-lights" and one meadowood* point, probably a stray from Point Peninsula times were also found. To date, we can compare the NOK site chronologically with a somewhat similar site, the Oakfield Site. From this it appears…

[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] Bert Salwen of Metropolitan Chapter, who is now teaching at Bennington College, made the July issue of American Antiquity with his "Sea Levels and Archaeology in the Long Island Sound Area." The abstract in…

…Brennan et al. (1962)] association publication committee, or to the Editor, Louis Brennan, 39 Hamilton Avenue, Ossining, N. Y. No. 26 November 1962 3 American archaeology has to be re-thought out, and that modest tool, the chopper, is about…

…Brennan et al. (1962)] In an adjacent midden of small shell there occurred a short, broad-bladed, simple stemmed point, a quartzite stemmed point that may fall within a fish-tail or, more likely, an incipient fish-tail phase, a…

…Solecki pointed out the need for recognition of cognate names and Brennan indicated that the reference section would do so. Charles Gillette commented that it was important to recognize the present nomenclature but indicated that he believed it possible to…

[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] "While we cannot demonstrate the emergence of the Archaic out of the antecedent Paleo-Indian stage there is good evidence that the delineation of some lines of affinity will be possible in the future…

…Brennan et al. (1962)] At midden Locus 1 at Kettle Rock where Vinette I-like pottery occurred in two spots opposite each other on the midden periphery the meager artifact midden content consisted of a 2 in, long fishtail point…

[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] 16 THE BULLETIN pipe is represented by a stem only, but is unusual in that the rear portion of an animal, possibly a lizard, stands out in relief on the top of the stem…

…We are satisfied at this time that most of these bands had each its own peculiarity in projectile point style and that of ten, when several styles are found at a site they indicate only that several different bands camped…

[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] This and later crops stalled our attempts for nearly two and a half years to finish this pit. In the fall of 1961, after again obtaining permission from the landowner, who must remain anonymous…

…Brennan et al. (1962)] On the north shore of Lake Ontario, Bay of Quinte’ Component, a Point Peninsula Focus burial mound contained several natural concretions and fossils in addition to various burial offerings (Ritchie, 1944, p. 178). Fossil brachiopods stained…

…Base and point fragments only Celts: Fragments of various types Hammerstones: Flint hammers, bi-pitted, and single pitted pebbles Net Sinkers: Notched and combination sinker and whetstone Sinew Stones: Grooved and combination sinew and whetstone Whetstones: Tabular form Pestles: Fragments…

…Brennan et al. (1962)] We have found just one of these at Kettle Rock and they are certainly not prominent in what we have named the Q tradition along the Hudson, which is the narrow-bladed point tradition and which…

[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] The stones not meeting the necessary requirements for further modification became hearth and boiling stones or were put to some other crude utilitarian use, such as hammers, anvils, and mullers. In the Park area…

…Brennan et al. (1962)] We can, after over two years of digging at this location, assert with considerable conviction that pottery is associated here with little shell only, never with medium to big shell, and there are at least two…

[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] phases, the first of which was called the Farmdale and the second the Iowan. Depending on how the glaciology finally works out, Lewisville Man and Tule Springs Man were either mid-Wisconsin or pre…

[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] 11 OAKFIELD FORT 7 LITERATURE In addition to the highly significant report on Tule Springs mentioned on page 1, 1962 produced another archaeological study that ought to be in the library of every chapter…

…The fact that many aboriginal cultures are represented by the artifact collection, leads one to believe that the site may not have been occupied permanently by any of them, but may have been a gathering place or a portaging point…

…Thus the only pottery we have found in two years of digging at Kettle Rock Point is very early. This earliness or priority is confirmed by its stratigraphic position. The midden where our latest Vinette I-like pottery occurs itself…

…This point has been called Satan's Toe. Enraged, the devil gathered a great mass of stones and boulders in the interior of Long Island and hurled them at his enemies across the Sound, leaving the western shore line boulder…

[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] For the October 27 workshop, it was suggested that concentration on the first three or four main sub-divisions would be desirable. (Editors note: a second conference was held on October 25 and will…