…The midden where our latest Vinette I-like pottery occurs itself lies under a top soil layer of from two to six inches. This soil consists of a huh-Ac content which includes shell fragments from the decay of the…

…occurred-in the top and last-deposited oyster shell heap in a complex of shell heaps of at least two different climatic epochs. The shells of this Vinette I-like pottery midden are small by comparison with those of the…

[Various (1967)] Contents The Taconic Tradition and the Coe Axiom Louis A. Brennan 1 Excavations of a Probable Late Prehistoric Onondaga House Site Robert Ricklis 15 The Pickle Hill Site, Warren County, New York Paul L. Weinman, Thomas P. Weinman…

…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…

[Various (1967)] The location of each of these molds in corresponding positions at opposite ends of the structure suggests that they served as large roof supports. It will also be seen from the illustration that both to the north and…

…The real date of the Croton Point shell midden (Brennan 1963:14) tested at 5863 ± 200 (Y 1315) would be 7108 B.P. The real No. 39, March 1967 11 date of the Otter Creek phase hearth at Sylvan Lake…

[Various (1967)] The makers apparently did not know how to thin the stem and their efforts often resulted in a round-based or stud stem, which is characteristic of the first five phases of the tradition. Variety: The Croton Half…

…15), and the as yet undocumented Bartow midden have all yielded various stones containing molds or negative impressions of fossil mollusks, in association with cultural material diagnostic of the East River and Windsor aspects (Smith, 1950, pp. 116-187). Doubtlessly…

…Still lower down river in Westchester County, radiocarbon dates of similar magnitude were secured on charcoal from the bottom level of a midden at Croton Point, 3900 B.C. ± 200 years (X-1315) (Brennan 1962), and on oyster shell from…

[Various (1967)] Following spring thaws the River people probably moved to Lake George, the Hudson River, or other bodies of water where fish and shellfish were available. REFERENCES Funk, Robert E. 1966a. The Significance of Three Radiocarbon Dates from the…

…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…

[Various (1967)] In each of the twenty culture zones she has excavated (to a total depth of 24 ft. below former surface level) where projectile points occur, there is one type per zone. The type succession is the same and…

[Various (1967)] Albans Archaic Site, 1964-65, The Eastern States Archaeological Federation, Bulletin No. 25, May, 1966, Berwyn, Pa. Coe, Joffre L. 1964 The Formative Cultures of the Carolina Piedmont, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 54, part 5…

…and from several parcels of the midden. There are charcoal dates from Wicker's Creek and Croton Point #2 (5900 ± 200 rcy) that also fall into this time period. Paired charcoal and shell dates 4500 to 5000 years old are…

…The point was found beneath an intact dump or small heap of shell that had to have been in place when the fire was kindled. The point may be a season or two older than the hearth, or a matter…

[Various (1967)] Yet it is even closer than that for, while artifacts do not have genes and cannot breed, their makers do and correlation between the artifact tradition and the genealogy of its makers is what a cultural tradition is…

[Various (1967)] of millions of people living in the metropolitan regions of New York and New Jersey, it has been completely lost in the rush of civilization. The Tuxedo-Ringwood Canal was built around 1765 by Peter Hasenclever. Hasenclever, a…

[Various (1967)] The discovery establishes-and Coe leaves no doubt that he intends it to establish-that the craftsmen of any given community at any given time were not making a diversity or "hodgepodge" of projectile point styles, but were…

[Various (1967)] We have taken them from almost every site excavated or collected from in this area - some ten productive sites-and wherever the site collection is large, Taconic tradition points 6 THE BULLETIN No. 39, March 1967 7 8…

[Various (1967)] 13 Scheutz, Meredith K. 1957 A Report on Williamson County Mound Material, Bulletin of the Texas Archaeological Society, Bulletin vol. 28, the Texas Archaeological Society, Austin, Texas. Stuiver, Minze and Hans E. Suess 1966 On the Relationship Between…

[Various (1967)] As Coe points out in his introduction to his Piedmont report, the "complex" is a delusion. It is not a situation of diversity within 2 THE BULLETIN a cultural-time unit; it is a confusion of cultural-time…

[Various (1967)] Since Ritchie has a date of 4474 ± 300 (Ritchie 1965:91) on a Vosburgian phase hearth at the Bannerman site in Dutchess County and Funk has the aforementioned date of 4220 ± 160 on a narrow -bladed, stemmed point…

[Various (1967)] 1 THE TACONIC TRADITION AND THE COE AXIOM Louis A. Brennan Metropolitan Chapter THE COE AXIOM In his recently published report (Coe 1964) on the Archaic cultures of inland North Carolina, "The Formative Cultures of the Carolina Piedmont…

[Various (1967)] But they do not appear in an early or even Middle Archaic sequence so far reported from the South, on Coe's excavations, at Russell Cave, or at the Stanfield-Worley Rockshelter. The implication is that they are…

[Various (1967)] the production of a projectile point, changes in proportion, of weight, of choice of material, may came about in a number of ways, from individual fancy or discovery to movement to a new locale or exposure to new…

[Various (1967)] The material uncovered at this time, consisting primarily of triangular projectile points, chert scrapers and knives, bone awls, celt fragments, pipe fragments and pottery, came from three hillside refuse deposits in which a total of 18 five foot…

…Brennan et al. (1962)] This living pattern, on the evidence of the uniform volume of individual shell heaps that vary but little through the several horizons during which they were laid down, consisted of a basic population unit of perhaps…

[Various (1967)] from a simpler, more generalized, and more widely disseminated and mobile hunting and fishing manifestation which probably antedated 3000 B. C." This "simpler, more generalized" culture would be the Taconic tradition point makers, but of what it consisted…

[Various (1967)] The maximum width of the area showing evidence of occupation is approximately 300' at the east end of the site, where the adjoining land slopes upward. This width, however, rapidly diminished to about 100' at the center of…

[Various (1967)] of penetration, is at a right angle with the altitude of the point). 9. the corner or bias notched (the axis of the notching is at an acute angle to the altitude of the point). 10. the neck…