…The only other pottery found in two years (we are now entering our third year) of excavating at Kettle Rock Point, the northernmost, upriver tip of Croton Point, has also been found with small shell. Some sherds of this are…

…26 November 1962 13 distinctly larger oyster shell, with an occasional scallop showing up. These contain no pottery, nor is there pottery in any heap of medium to large shell anywhere on Kettle Rock Point.

…considerable conviction that pottery is associated here with little shell only, never with medium to big shell, and there are at least two soil building periods at Kettle Rock Point older than the Vinette Ilike pottery. If, as has been…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…This confirms the chronology for the Croton River mouth area placed by us before this conference last year, whereby our Parham Ridge site, a manifestation of our Q or quartzite tradition, with its steatite and no ceramics, dates from the…

…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…

…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…

…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…