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A Current Synthesis of New York Prehistory*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

William A. Ritchie
William A. Ritchie*
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New York State Museum, Albany, New York
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Since my synthesis (Ritchie, 1944) additional chronological and other data (Smith, 1950; Bullen, 1949) have accumulated for the New York area from interrelated field (Ritchie, 1946; also excavations of 1950 on same site) and laboratory (Ritchie and MacNeish, 1949; MacNeish, n.d.) researches. Among the significant sites recently excavated by the writer, which have contributed to the problem of cultural continuity are the Jack's Reef site, to be further excavated and reported on in 1951; the East Sugar Island site (Ritchie, 1949, pp. 3-24); and a group of Owasco and early Mohawk sites in eastern New York, excavated in 1949-1950 (Ritchie, Lenig and Miller, n.d.; Ritchie, n.d.). The Piffard site in western New York, excavated by Robert R. Hill of Rochester, N. Y., is another site showing transitional features. The chronological data accrue from the radiocarbon analyses of Arnold and Libby (1950, p. 7) made from charcoal samples obtained from hearths and graves on certain Archaic and early Woodland period sites in central New York.

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Research Article
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American Antiquity , Volume 17 , Issue 2 , October 1951 , pp. 130 - 136
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1951

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Based on a paper given at the Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, at Norman, Oklahoma, May 19, 1950. The actual carbon 14 dates have been added. Cf. Ritchie, 1951.

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