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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 |
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| 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 → |
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Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)
[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) …
Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)
[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 ar…
Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)
[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…
Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)
[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. In…
Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)
[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 artif…
Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)
[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 …
Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)
[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) h…
Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)
[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 earl…
Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)
[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 sout…
Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)
[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, Renssela…
Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)
[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)
[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); …
Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)
[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…
Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)
[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, b…
Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)
[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 kno…
Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)
[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., …
Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)
[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 fu…
Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)
[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 …
Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)
[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 credenc…
Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)
[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. m…
Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)
[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 unquestionabl…
Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)
[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…
Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)
[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 excava…
Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)
[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 H…
Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)
[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 a…
Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)
[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 shellmatri…
Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)
[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 arg…
Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)
[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 hab…
Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)
[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 Arc…
Herbert C. Kraft et al. (1994)
[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 wi…