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Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962) — source
[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] The island, consisting of twenty-seven square miles of surface area, is fairly level and was undoubtedly created by the last ice age. The chief industry has been farming since the island was purchased…
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Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962) — source
[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] The Indians fought him fiercely with all their numbers, and he retreated southward down the coast to the vicinity of Throgs Neck, the south eastern end of Bronx County. Being hard pressed and the…
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Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962) — source
[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] The grave was 26 inches in depth and the fragile skulls were badly fractured by freezing of the heavy soil. The grave was situated 150 feet from salt marshes on land many times inundated…
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Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962) — source
[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] We have found just one of these at Kettle Rock and they are certainly not prominent in what we have named the Q tradition along the Hudson, which is the narrow-bladed point tradition…
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Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962) — source
[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] Most types of tools have been collected on the surface of this small site during the past 70 years, notably among them a small completely grooved axe two inches in length, no doubt but…
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Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962) — source
[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] earth containing bones of extinct animals and an obsidian chip were cased together undisturbed and shipped to the Museum where the flake was removed in the presence of scientific witnesses. Mark R. Harrington of…
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Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962) — source
[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] I have not at the time of this writing had the opportunity to view the collection or read the notes, but hope to do so in the near future. The fact that many aboriginal…
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Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962) — source
[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] An examination of the literature places this type early in the Early Woodland Period and an inspection of the material itself by John Zakucia of Pennsylvania confirms that similar ware is found immediately succeeding…
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Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962) — source
[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] we believe that a series of dates for it from Long Island, up the Hudson and into western New York and into New England would provide what amounts to a road map of the…
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