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The Kitchawank, Wappinger, and Lenape peoples who lived here for 7,000+ years
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| Source | Passages | Words | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Edward Manning Ruttenber (1872) | 401 | 76,522 | Original → |
| Edward Manning Ruttenber (1906) | 223 | 40,085 | Original → |
| Various (1971) | 98 | 18,630 | Original → |
| Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994) | 73 | 12,771 | Original → |
| Various (1967) | 42 | 8,829 | Original → |
| Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962) | 39 | 7,958 | Original → |
Passages
Various (1967)
[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 the site. …
Various (1967)
[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 r…
Various (1967)
[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 to the south of …
Various (1967)
[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 than one phase of c…
Various (1967)
[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…
Various (1967)
[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…
Various (1967)
[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 year. The hu…
Various (1967)
[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 plotted and dug fro…
Various (1967)
[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 …
Various (1967)
[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 used in chipp…
Various (1967)
[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 the River comp…
Various (1967)
[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 view o…
Various (1967)
[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, Deepkill flint; 10, 26, gray cherty slate; 1…
Various (1967)
[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 …
Various (1967)
[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 German…
Various (1971)
[Various (1971)] The Bulletin Number 52 July 1971 CONTENTS The Archaic Revisited, A Preface L.A.B 1 The Archaic in New York William A. Ritchie 2 William A. Ritchie: A Valediction Robert E. Funk 13
Various (1971)
[Various (1971)] Program, NYSAA Annual Meeting 40 No. 52, July 1971 1 THE ARCHAIC REVISITED A Preface The announcement by Dr. William A. Ritchie at the NYSAA State Conference at Binghampton, April 1618, that he was retiring on May 1 from his long hel…
Various (1971)
[Various (1971)] since been done; it was appropriately festooned with sentiment. Despite the short notice Dr. Ritchie's well-earned departure was signalized by an appropriate recognition of its significance to Dr. Ritchie, who has happy plans for his…
Various (1971)
[Various (1971)] The continental validity of the concept has taken increasing hold on anthropology and if the key words used in the literature were ranked in the order of the number of times they appear, "Archaic" would certainly lead the list. Like …
Various (1971)
[Various (1971)] Ritchie, State Archeologist, NYSAAF New York State Museum and Science Service The purpose of this paper is to restate, for greater clarity and emphasis, my current views regarding the major configuration of the Archaic stage in New Y…
Various (1971)
[Various (1971)] Anderson, Donald Hollowell, and Joseph Bodnar, with supporting evidence from two other sites excavated chiefly by Donald R. Sainz. Through the courtesy and generosity of these enthusiastic workers we have been able to study and repor…
Various (1971)
[Various (1971)] Moreover, these southeastern sites have not produced choppers, celts or adzes, or indeed any ground stone items such as occur on the Staten Island components. In the southeastern sites the temporal range of the point styles reported …
Various (1971)
[Various (1971)] ± 250 years (M-1908), and a chipped celt with ground bit, having no parallels in the south_________________ 1 Published by permission of the Director, New York State Museum and Science Service, Journal Series No. 129. No. 52, July 19…
Various (1971)
[Various (1971)] Beginning about 4000 B.C., the warmer climatic conditions of the Xerothermic period were attended first, by an oak-pine, then by an oak-hickory forest succession, both highly favorable as habitats for the most valued game animals, es…
Various (1971)
[Various (1971)] Here, in the basal levels at the Sylvan Lake Rockshelter, Funk uncovered a small number and assortment of untyped projectile points. Two radiocarbon dates from this general zone are 4030 B.C. ± 120 (I-2599) and 4610 B.C. ± 100 (Y-165…
Various (1971)
[Various (1971)] As I have long and frequently stated, I regard the Laurentian tradition of the Late Archaic stage as having its immediate source in the Lake Forest belt lying adjacent on the south to the Great Lakes and extending eastward across low…
Various (1971)
[Various (1971)] The time span of the Laurentian in southeastern Canada, New York and New England, on present limited C-14 determinations, falls between c. 3300 and 2000 B.C., with the oldest dates to the north, in the Ottawa Valley. Here two determi…
Various (1971)
[Various (1971)] Farther east, in southern New England, we have a hearth charcoal radiocarbon date of 2270 B.C. ± 160 years (Y-1530) attributable to a weak Laurentian manifestation in Stratum 4 at the Hornblower II site on Martha's Vineyard (Ritchie …
Various (1971)
[Various (1971)] The extended burial which produced the bone, Number 78, was that of a young male who had been richly provided with grave goods, including such characteristic Laurentian traits as a ground slate point or knife and chopper.2 A similar,…
Various (1971)
[Various (1971)] While the weight of the evidence, cultural and chronological, strongly indicates that the Brewerton phase was still extant in central New York around 2000 B.C., we have, unfortunately, no way of assessing the antiquity of the key sit…