…occurred-in the top and last-deposited oyster shell heap in a complex of shell heaps of at least two different climatic epochs. The shells of this Vinette I-like pottery midden are small by comparison with those of the…

…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.

…shell requires us to think is that these heaps were laid down during a relatively cool period, since the much larger shell of earlier middens show us that there had been in this sequence periods much more favorable to oyster…

…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…

…Thus, the sequence of heaps of larger oyster shell lying under, and separated from the smaller shells by soil horizons must be in the order of dates we have estimated, stretching back to about 6000 B. P.