[Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)] 1 After Point Peninsula: Pickering vs. Owasco in the St. Lawrence Valley Cesare D'Annibale and Brian D. Ross 9 Exceptional Preservation of a Shell Specimen at the Goldkrest Site (CNGTL470), East Greenbush, New York Frank J. Dirrigl Jr. 17 Evidence of Paleo-Indian and Early Archaic Occupation in Washington County, New York Roger L. Ashton 20 An Intact Prehistoric Ce…

[Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)] In Memorium: Kenneth E. Kidd (1906-1994) David M. Pendergast, Charles F. Hayes III 49 The Eaton Site: Preliminary Analysis of the Iroquoian Component William Engelbrecht, Houghton Chapter, Buffalo State College Twelve seasons of work by archaeological field schools have resulted in the partial excavation of an Iroquoian village at the Eaton Site, located in western…

[Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)] Until the fall of 1993, little analysis had been performed on the growing body of data from these excavations, although Kathleen Allen (1988) utilized rim sherds recovered from Eaton in her doctoral dissertation. During the fall term of 1993, I conducted a senior seminar in archaeology, the latter half of which was devoted to working with Eaton material. This artic…

[Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)] York State Division for Historic Preservation site number is A029-25-0003. Other designations are Buf 2-4 and UB 221. The major component is an Iroquoian village believed to date to the mid-sixteenth century. No sixteenthcentury European trade material has been identified from this occupation. The Iroquoian inhabitants of the site are generally assumed to have been…

[Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)] At the 1979 annual meeting of the NYSAA in Rochester, Chapter members presented a series of papers on the site, including one by Carolyn Pierce on the history of investigations at the site. I have drawn on the latter Tyler Barnett Juana Colon

[Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)] Michael Waite Tracy Wright Madison Points Identification of Shell- Non-Iroquoian Projectile Points Scrapers Site Map Organization of Written Lithic Sourcing

[Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)] have been 1 person for every 20 meters squared. Utilizing this figure along with White's site-size estimate of 2.2 acres (approximately 8,903 meters squared) gives a population estimate of 445 for the Iroquoian village at Eaton. During the spring term of 1992, Neil O'Donnell received a small grant from the Division of Natural and Social Sciences at Buffalo State to…

[Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)] Department, SUNY/Buffalo, visited the site while the northern portion was being destroyed and was able to record the location of post molds exposed by the bulldozer. Some defined a portion of a ton-house, and one line of posts approximately 18 ft in length may represent a palisade (Figure 1). While the latter line of posts is too short for certain identification as…

[Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)] The third structure is visible in the northern area, the south wall having been exposed for a distance of 20 m. Approximately 7.5 m to the north, a clear line of posts running parallel to this was exposed in the northern trench. During the seminar, Neil O'Donnell redrew the post molds representing the one long-house which was almost totally exposed and rechecked th…

[Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)] least similar to the other samples. That same sample was also spatially the farthest removed from the other samples. This study therefore hints at possible spatial patterning of ceramic style at Eaton. Tracy Wright is now expanding the study to investigate this possibility. Ceramics From time to time, I have been asked whether any shell-tempered sherds have been re…

[Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)] examined ceramics from units lying within the western, eastern, and northern longhouses. The western longhouse sample was further divided into a northern and a southern sample to serve as a control. If longhouses could be differentiated stylistically, it was expected that the samples from within the same longhouse would be most similar to one another. The samples w…

[Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)] Sherd counts for all available units were then tabulated. The results are as follows: Location Outside Between Inside

[Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)] 190 121 107 Spring 1994 No. 107 While some areas of the site produce more sherds than others regardless of location with respect to past structures, it is apparent that on the average, fewer sherds are found in units excavated within longhouses than in other units. A possible explanation for this patterning is that the remains of broken pottery were removed from th…

[Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)] to be determined and will form the focus of a future study. Conclusion This paper reports on student research conducted on data from the Eaton Site. It is offered as a preliminary report, with the understanding that as more data are recovered and analyzed, some of the conclusions presented here may need to be revised. It is also anticipated that continuing study of…

[Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)] To date, 205 students have been enrolled in archaeology field schools which have worked at the Eaton Site. A number of these individuals have gone on to become professional archaeologists. The hard work, dedication, and camaraderie of all these students is gratefully acknowledged. Members of the Houghton Chapter, summer school students from West Seneca schools, Upw…

[Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)] 32% 26% 4114 In this case, there was a tendency for end-scrapers to be found inside the structures, with 41% of the scrapers being 7 The Bulletin The excavations at Eaton were carried out as part of the instructional program at Buffalo State College and SUNY/Buffalo, and I gratefully acknowledge the support of these institutions. Finally, I wish to thank Grossman's…

[Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)] White, Marian E. 1961 Iroquois Culture History in the Niagara Frontier Area of New York State. Anthropological Papers, University of Michigan No. 16. Ann Arbor. Houghton, Frederick 1909 Indian Village, Camp and Burial Sites on the Niagara Frontier. Bulletin, Buffalo Society of Natural Science 9(3). Buffalo. 8 After Point Peninsula: Pickering vs. Owasco in the St. L…

[Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)] distinct periods of usage since the arrival of Europeans in the St. Lawrence River valley. These periods can loosely be described as the modern camping period, the historic cottage period, and the historic recreation period. However, only those finds pertaining to the pre-European period will be discussed here. Despite problems in readily discerning deposition sequ…

[Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)] Since both limonite and hematite produce a chalky red stain when rubbed or chalky red grains when crushed, such finds may indicate a small-scale pigment production workshop. The single most striking feature of the Mulcaster Island East collection is the disparity between a significant native ceramic assemblage and a negligible lithic assemblage. Com pared to 854 sh…

[Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)] squared. The installation of the new privy was deferred until the construction site could be thoroughly salvaged during the 1992 field season. The archaeological resources occur in a virtually homogeneous sand matrix. Consequently, the depositional sequence has been affected by such disruptive processes as filtration, percolation, compression, and dispersal, making…

[Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)] the Point Peninsula culture on Mulcaster Wand is represented by 10 Spring 1994 No. 107 Figure 2. Site plan of the Mulcaster Island East Site (36H14) showing orientation of archaeological investigations. ten sherds decorated with a pseudo-scallop shell technique. The sherds belong to at least two vessels. The decorative motif, termed St. Lawrence Pseudo-Scallop Shel…

[Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)] angle as to leave an impression similar to that produced by a pseudo 11 The Bulletin Figure 3. Site plan of the Mulcaster Island East Site (36H14) showing distribution of native ceramics. scallop shell tool. This variation on the same vessel appears to be a characteristic trait found on Middle Woodland vessels. This is a feature that has been noticed on ceramics fr…

[Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)] Creek Punctate, or Bainbridge Linear (Ritchie and MacNeish 1949:110-116). Parallel incised examples are found on the Morrow, Bainbridge, Grindstone Island, Castle Creek, and Partridge sites of New York State. Another major late Owasco form represented at the Mulcaster Island East Site is Owasco Corded (Ritchie and MacNeish 1949:112). One rim sherd, with corded hori…

[Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)] Point. One undecorated pipe bowl rim fragment was recovered from the site. Tempering material consists of very fine grit with an extremely smooth surface finish. Although only a small fragment, it nevertheless can be grouped with Owasco pipes. In general, these are normally plain and uncollared (Ritchie 1969:295-296). Similar examples can be seen at Kenyon's (1968:…

[Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)] Furthermore, while the relative absence of chipped stone debitage in the excavated area may be a result of sampling bias, it would have been expected that more lithic artifacts would have infiltrated into the rest of the site than have to date been found. Since this has not been the case, it can be argued that the inhabitants of this site focused on activities not …

[Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)] archaeologically unexplored areas of the site, the chances of missing all male-oriented activity are very small. Therefore, the compelling predominance of ceramic vessels and the relative absence of chipped stone at Mulcaster Island East leads one to speculate on the existence and nature of gender-specific sites. Is it possible that the Mulcaster Island East Site w…

[Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)] York State Prehistory. Research Records No. 9, Rochester Museum of Arts and Sciences, Rochester, New York. 1969 The Archaeology of New York State. Natural History Press, New York. Ritchie, William A., and Richard S. MacNeish 1949 The Pre-Iroquoian Pottery of New York State. American Antiquity 15(2):97-124. Spence, Michael W., Robert H. Pihl, and Carl Murphy 1990 Cu…

[Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)] Mercury Series, Archaeological Survey of Canada, Paper No. 95, National Museums of Canada, Ottawa. Appendix 1: Comparative Collections Housed at the Rochester Museum & Science Center. 16 Exceptional Preservation of a Shell Specimen at the Goldkrest Site (CNGTL470), East Greenbush, New York Frank J. Dirrigl Jr., Department of Anthropology, The University of Connecti…

[Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)] In my analyses of faunal remains, I consider data from at least four different levels: biological, cultural, environmental, and analytical (Table 1). The excavation procedure used by ARS at the Goldkrest Site included shovel-shave testing of 50 cm x 50 cm pits along transects at 5-m intervals. Field crew members screened soil through 0.8-cm hardware mesh and groupe…

[Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)] Some prehistoric material (cera mics, lithics) can be found on the surface and within the A horizon. The junction of the A and B soil horizons is generally between 30 and 4.5 cmbs, and the B horizon continues beyond 120 cmbs. ARS recognized two cultural levels at the site, a 0-60 cmbs historic level and a 60-120 cmbs and possibly beyond prehistoric level. However, …

[Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)] In a 50 cm x 50 cm test pit, S125E10, I found a single specimen of Veneridae (hard-shelled clam family) that displayed exceptional preservation. Similar to other pieces re covered from the Goldkrest Site, this fragmented hinge, umbo, and valve specimen also showed rounding and softening. However, much of the periostracum, or chitinous outer covering of the valve, r…

[Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)] With seasonal freezing and thawing in the northeastern United States, clay soils expand and contract, thus moving faunal remains horizontally and vertically. This movement abrades and wears the faunal remains causing rounding and flaking. Therefore, the state of preservation of the shell specimen is an exception. I welcome any suggestions of explanations from reade…

[Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)] (1987) correctly emphasize the need for excavators to become aware of the importance of gathering and providing taphonomic data to zooarchaeologists. ideally, excavators of sites should provide zooarchaeologists with maps, a copy of the grant or contract proposal detailing the excavation method and strategy, and information on abbreviations or numbering codes used …

[Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)] A Survey of Disturbance Processes in Archaeological Site Formation. In Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory, v. l, edited by M.B. Schiffer, pp. 315-380 Academic Press, Inc., Orlando. 19 Evidence of Paleo-Indian and Early Archaic Occupation in Washington County, New York Roger L. Ashton, Van Epps-Hartley Chapter, NYSAA The surface discoveries of a fluted poi…

[Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)] Several small feeder streams along with outlets of sediment laden, shallow, reedy swamps add to its volume. The previously mentioned two bodies of water originated from the melting of stranded blocks of ice left by the active glacier about 13,600-12,600 B.P. (De Simone 1985; DeSimone and La Fleur 1985). Some 48 km (30 mi)

[Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)] Figure 1. Flax Mill Creek juncture with the Batten Kill near the New York-Vermont Border. 20 Spring 1994 No. 107 direction and joins the Hoosic River just north of Eagle Bridge, New York. By 11,000 years B.P. (radiocarbon years) (Gramly and Funk 1990:6), most of the Northeast was icefree and could have been entered by Paleo-Indians and settled. This date fits in ni…

[Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)] It lay in a completely reversed position from its original resting place. There is no question of the artifact's primary location as it was clearly visible 7.6 cm (3 in) into the yellowish subsoil. The soil had never before been plowed to that depth. Thorough testing of the area revealed no other occupational signs. Four years later in the same exact locale, I foun…

[Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)] Photograph courtesy New York State Museum. with a slight pale gray mottling. The same colored chert is also revealed by a fresh break on the deeply weathered shallow side-notched point. Redstone Mountain, 6 km (4 mi) to the west, might have been a source for this material. Also the massive mid-Hudson quarries at Flint Mine Hill, in Greene County, might have been th…

[Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)] product. A marked resemblance to this point is seen in a photograph of a fluted point from Lake Champlain, Vermont (Haviland 1981:34). While the material used in manufacture of the latter point was different, there are forma l similarities. The general shape, rubbed lower lateral edges, measurements, and a shallow concave base are compatible. Shallow base concaviti…

[Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)] One shows similarities to trianguloid points from the Reagan Site, a late Paleo-Indian site in Vermont (Funk and Walsh 1988:1-4; Ritchie 1953:249-258). Few similarities exist between the Putnam and Flax Mill artifacts. Even different cherts were used. However, one Putnam pentagonoid lanceolate fluted point does have measurements and grinding on lower lateral edges …

[Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)] that strain from use or during its manufacture caused a 10mm break that followed this flaw, destroying part of the base, edge, and one ear. Damage from modern tillage equipment extended this fracture another 11 mm. Interpretations I initially treated the fluted point as an isolated find. This theory was challenged a few years later with the finding of the spurred s…

[Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)] point some distance embedded in its vitals before expiring. Perhaps the find spot was in proximity to frequently used or seasonal 22 Spring 1994 No. 107 Jersey, a puzzling single-component site that has produced artifacts reminiscent of the Dalton complex (Cavallo 1981:1-18). Unfortunately, these dates are regarded as too young by several writers including the exca…

[Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)] Considering the radiocarbon chronology, archaeologists are in agreement that the very late Paleo-Indian tradition in the eastern United States developed into the Dalton tradition. Was the finding of the two points in the same locus a coincidence, with the Dalton point being abandoned later than the fluted point? Their contemporaneity is suggested by back country is…

[Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)] Since a Dalton-like complex has not been conclusively established for the Northeast, Indian populations may have been relatively small at this time. (Funk 1991:9). A corrected date of 9115 B.P. (Beta-32366, ETH5671) has been obtained from Olive Branch, a Dalton site on the Mississippi River in Alexander County, Illinois. It is expected that even older dates than th…

[Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)] The systematic study and reporting of all surface Paleo-Indian finds, no matter how scattered and meager, are very important. They constitute an important class of data that can provide significant information on early postglacial settlement patterns in conjunction with the more spectacular PaleoIndian habitation sites. 23 The Bulletin Acknowledgments Funk, R.E., G…

[Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)] I wish to thank Dr. Robert E. Funk for his personal help, expertise, and constructive criticism. Additional thanks to Dr. David DeSimone of Williams College for his excellent information on the glacial geology of southern Washington County, New York. Gramly, R.M. 1982 The Vail Site: A Paleo-Indian Encampment in Maine. Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Scie…

[Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)] Power 1981 The Original Vermonters. University Press of New England, Hanover. DeSimone, D.J. 1985 The Late Woodfordian History of Southern Washington County, New York. Unpublished PhD dissertation in Geology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. MacDonald, G.F. 1968 Debert: A Paleo-Indian Site in Central Nova Scotia. Anthropology Papers No. 16, National Museums of Can…

[Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)] The Bulletin, Journal of the New York State Archaeological Association 96:1-4. 24 An Intact Prehistoric Ceramic Pot from Cumberland Bay, Lake Champlain Dennis M. Lewis, Clinton Community College

[Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)] body of the pot in places appears to be fabric impressed or marked by a large cord-wrapped paddle. Figure 1. Durfee Underlined pot raised from Cumberland Bay, Lake Champlain, New York, 1979. Height 29 cm (11 5/8 in); circumference of body 82 cm (32 3/16 in). The pot appears to be of the Durfee Underlined type. In learning of this pot in June 1980, William A. Ritchi…

[Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)] The earlier work proceeded with 5-ft squares and half-inch mesh screens. The more recent work used 24 columns. 35 cm square, and 28 units from 1 to 4 sq m in size (Figure 1). The 2 12 column levels were water-screened through stacked 1/2-in, 1/4-in and 1/ 16-in mesh screens. There are at least four components and possibly five at the site. The oldest component, pro…

[Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)] An unknown proportion of the site consists of a large area of oyster shell up to 120 cm (4 ft) deep in its southern end. Radiocarbon dates indicate that the shell accumulated 6000 to 4400 and 2500 to 2200 years ago, but projectile points indicate utilization of the place 7000 to 2500 years ago and again from 1500 to 500 years ago. The site has been excavated in thr…

[Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)] The balance between sea-level rise and stream activity has been the key variable in the geomorphological history. Geomorphology The Dogan Point Site is one of at least 12 Middle to Late Holocene shell-matrix sites known on the banks of the Hudson River and situated on a till modified landform of Late Wisconsin age. The site is situated in two, rather than one, envi…

[Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)] Most of the materials used (i.e., cherts, quartz, quartzite, argillite, argillitic red slates, feldspar) could have been collected in the immediate environs of Montrose Point. Quarried materials came from Warren Co., New Jersey; in New York from the Big Spring quarry, Crooked Swamp; from the Delaware watershed; from Bar Harbor Maine; from the New York City area (La…

[Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)] Three of thes e scrapers were made on recycled projectile points, rotated 180 degrees. Polishes on the Archaic triangular points indicate a probable use only in piercing, while the Woodland triangles evidenced dual functions of piercing and scraping. Three drills were inspected, and all had been used to drill antler or bone, most likely antler. The Middle and Late …

[Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)] Invertebrates Crassostrea virginica, or the Eastern Oyster, is the dominant bivalved shellfish species in shell-matrix sites of the Lower Hudson River (Table 3). Visually, the oyster constitutes 100% of the matrix in the southern part of the Dogan Point Site, while quantitatively it constitutes much less of the total weight of the column sample. For example, in Col…

[Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)] There is less fragmentation of shells in giant oyster deposits (index is the weight of 1/2-in screen shell divided by 1/4-in screen shell). Their more frequent invasion by sponges making large bore holes gives credence to Brennan's idea that the giant oysters had been collected from water of higher salinity than the later oysters lived in. The giant oyster levels w…

[Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)] A single possible oyster shell artifact was found (Figure 4). Two bear canines were recorded by Brennan's crew but apparently were not d rilled. 29 The Bulletin Table 1. Projectile Points from Dogan Point, New York. more Soft-shell Clam (Mya arenaria), slightly more mussel (Guekensia demissa), more flakes of smaller size. and more bone than the small oyster levels …

[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 B…

[Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)] 33 The Bulletin equally across classes and elements, indicating accidental burning. Butchery marks were essentially absent on wild animal bones, and rodent or carnivore marks were uncommon. An unexplained rust-colored stain was found on a number of bones from throughout the shell deposit (Whyte 1994). The greatly fragmented bone and shell appear to be due to aborig…

[Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)] From 30 to 40 cm came uncarbonized bark and oak (Gary Crites, personal communication 1993). Surprising was the absence of American Beech. Wood Charcoal Charcoal was rare in the portion of the site most recently excavated and was usually scattered in the upper levels, suggesting an Historic Period burn. Unfortunately, most of the charcoal pieces were too small, too …

[Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)] It came from a large clump of burned wood retrieved at a depth of 107 cm buried by 82 cm of slope wash. This hearth also yielded a projectile point typed as a Rossville (according to Stuart Fiedel, Ed Curtin, Russel Handsman) or a Stark (in the opinion of Robert Funk). From lower in the square came a point designated by Funk as a Drybrook fishtail. Both the remaini…

[Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)] Much of the charcoal submitted for species identification was unidentifiable due to mineralization, further suggesting that the charcoal from this site is unsuitable for typical archaeological analyses. formation of an argillic horizon in the site's sedimentology, a mature soil profile, and the lack of bone. A mature soil profile is one that "coarses upward, fines …

[Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)] Bone is not safe in shell-matrix sites and evidences greater decay with increasing depositional time. Nichol and Wild (1984:47)calculated a half-life for the most robust bones of the snapper at 500 years in shellmatrix sites and argued that for a 10,000-year-old site, there would be one premaxilla extant for every 20,000 deposited. The paucity of fish bone in Dogan…

[Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)] For a delta R between -200 and ± 200 14 C years, the earliest possible evidence for shellfish use on the lower Hudson was 7260-6600 years before present (Little 1994). There is no means by which one can support an argument that all the 6000-to-5000-year-old shell dates from Dogan Point are systematically 1000 to 2000 years old (Harold Krueger, personal communicatio…

[Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)] Deer bone will be tested for the fluoride content in an effort to study site disturbance. Oysters will undergo oxygen isotope analysis for information about the aquatic habitat and chemical analysis for additional habitat information. A core of the offshore sediments needs to be extracted. Dogan Point and other shell-matrix sites in the Haverstraw Bay area of the l…

[Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)] Archaeology of Eastern North America 18:75-87. 1994a Digging Into Dogan Point. Paper presented at the Archaeology of the Hudson Valley Conference, Albany. 1994b Invertebrates at Dogan Point. Paper presented at the Archaeology of the Hudson Valley Conference, Albany. Saunders, Joe W., Thurman Allen, and Roger T. Saucier 1992 Four Archaic? Mound Complexes in Northeas…

[Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)] the petroglyph: the deer's head, a horse with horns, a birdlike human figure, and others. Doubtless sensing my growing skepticism, Mrs. Gerard endeavored to allay my suspicions by informing me that she was familiar with petroglyphs, having studied anthropology with Drs. Frank C. Hibben and Paul The Palisades Petroglyph What has all this to do with the Palisades on …

[Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)] genre. Besides, Mrs. Gerard was pleasantly persuasive, and so I agreed to make the trip. And why not? It was the beginning of fall and the leaves were just starting to turn colorful. What a delightful time to get away from the office and enjoy a leisurely ride in the country. I drove north on the Palisades Interstate Parkway into Rockland County and on to the hamle…

[Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)] might as easily have been applied to the Palisades petroglyph: Unfortunately, Monsieur de Mortillet did not inform us concerning the appearance of this prehistoric "bridge," or how Paleolithic humans might have crossed the vast expanse of Atlantic Ocean to Newfoundland. Or, as has been suggested by one of my colleagues: "Might the influence have gone in the other d…

[Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)] some future time. Haagensen, Alice Munro 1986 Palisades and Snedens Landing. Pilgrimage Publications, Tarrytown, New York. Kraft, Herbert C. 1986 The Lenape: Archaeology, History and Ethnography. New Jersey Historical Society, Newark. 1993 Charles Conrad Abbott: New Jersey's Pioneer Archaeologist. Bulletin of the Archaeological Society of New Jersey 48: 1-12. Abbot…

[Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)] 11:05 am European Glass Trade Beads on the Niagara Frontier Region Sites Kathryn Stark, SUNY Buffalo 11:30 am Inventory of Artifacts and Ecofacts from an Early Seventeenth Century Erie Midden, Erie County, New York Michael Gramly, Great Lakes Artifacts Repository 12:00 noon Lunch General Session Chair: Elaine Herold, SUNY Buffalo

[Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)] 9:25 am 9:50 am 10:15 am 1:55 p m Recent Excavations at the Ripley Site, Chautauqua County, New York: Preliminary Results and Implications for Future Research William Green, SUNY Albany Archaeological Survey of Cortland County, New York: 1992-1993 Ellis McDowell-Loudan, SUNY Cortland 2:20 pm The Hill Site - A Possible Ceramic Firing Station in Metropolitan Toronto …

[Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)] 10:55 am 11:20 am 1:30-4:30 48 Monuments to Indians and Pioneers of Early Times Robert J. Gorall, L.H. Morgan Chapter The Myth of the Jesuit Ring: A Study of the IHS Adrian Mandzy, York University The Highest Form of Flattery? Redware Production in Erie County Maria O'Donovan, SUNY Binghamton Coffee Break A Preliminary Report on Two Early Iroquoian Sites in Erie Co…