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A Stone Effigy from Long Island

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

Carlyle S. Smith
Carlyle S. Smith*
Affiliation:
Great Neck, New York
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In 1940, at Great Neck, Long Island, Mr. Calmer Forsander found a waterworn glacial cobble with a crudely executed face on one side in an old stone wall bordering his property. Mr. Forsander knew that I had excavated the Baker Hill site, located about three hundred yards west of his house, and brought the find to my attention. The specimen is roughly egg-shaped and is composed of a crystalline material which appears to be indurated sandstone (Fig. 24). It measures approximately IS inches in length, 11 inches in width, and 10 inches in thickness. On one of the broader sides is a face, pecked and ground into the surface. The workmanship is crude and resembles that found on the pitted hammer stones common in the region.

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American Antiquity , Volume 11 , Issue 3 , January 1946 , pp. 200 - 201
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1946 

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References

1 Smith, Carlyle S., “Clues to the Chronology of Coastal New York,” American Antiquity, Vol. 10, No. 1, 1944.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

2 William A. Ritchie, The Pre-Iroquaian Occupations of New York State, Rochester Museum Memoir, No. 1, 1944, p. 57.

3 Parker, Arthur C., The Archaeological History of New York, New York State Bulletin, Nos. 235, 236,1920, pp. 346-348.Google Scholar

4 Smith, op. cit., p. 90.

5 M. R. Harrington, Ancient Shell Heaps near New York City, Antnropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, Vol. 3,1909, p. 177; Alanson Skinner, Archaeology of the New York Coastal Algonkin, Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, Vol. 3,1909., p. 224, Fig. 36b.

6 Smith, op. cit., pp. 91–92.

7 Smith, op. cit., pp. 92, 93.