OCCASIONAL PUBLICATIONS IN NORTHEASTERN ANTHROPOLOGY
(OPNEA)
ISSN 0276-8607
OPNEA #1 - 10 are out-of-print
The Archaeology and Ethnohistory
of the Lower Hudson Valley and Neighboring Regions: Papers in Honor
of Louis A. Brennan (OPNEA #11) (Herbert C. Kraft, editor, 1991,
254pp, 100+ illus)
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Louis Brennan: His Life and Works (Kraft)
MALFA and the Louis A. Brennan Lower Hudson Chapter (Wingerson)
The Lower Hudson: The Archaic (Brennan)
New Excavations at Dogan Point (Claassen)
The Message in the Midden (Custer)
Data from Shells: Theory in Search of a Method (Abraham)
Quahog "Shell Tools" (Stanzeski)
Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Human Adaptations (Funk)
Re-examination of the Old Lyme Shell Heap (Lavin)
Vertebrate Archaeofauna from the Old Lyme Shell Heap Site (Amorosi)
Paleosalinity of the Lower Hudson River: Evidence from Zooarchaeology
(Parris)
The Wicker's Creek Prehistoric Site at Dobbs Ferry, Westchester County,
New York (Roberts)
Archaic and Woodland Occupations at Teller's Point (Fiedel)
Prehistoric Indians at the Requa Site (Schaper)
The Mohonk Rockshelter: A Major Neville site in New York State (Eisenberg)
Native American Rock Art in the Lower Hudson Valley and Coastal New
York (Lenik)
European Contact and Trade in the Lower Hudson Valley (Kraft)
The King of New Jersey (Grumet)
The Munsee and the Northern Unami Today (Oestreicher).
Analyzing and Interpreting
Late Woodland Features (OPNEA #12) (Roger
W. Moeller, 20 figures, appendix, 120pp, 13 tables, 1992, revised 2009). An analysis
of more than 100 pit features at the Faucett site in Bushkill, Pennsylvania,
revealed that Late Woodland refuse pits were necessary facilities for very
intensive, short term, food processing activities. Nearby storage pits
were used only for a very short time to protect the freshly processed food
from scavengers and decomposition. These were emptied prior to the seasonal
abandonment of the site. Although diagnostic ceramics with Owasco, Oak
Hill, Chance, and Munsee motifs date the occupations from ca. 1000-1550
A.D., seasonality and resource selection vary little. The settlement and
subsistence model discussed accounts for this redundancy as well as the
distribution and frequency of many classes of artifacts found in Late Woodland
features at non-village sites in the Northeast and Midwest. A highly detailed
model of Woodland site formation processes is also developed to explain
why pits are not pristine contexts, why they do not contain a complete
record of a single occupation, and why certain behavior patterns are incorrectly
believed to be absent in earlier periods.
An Epilogue written in 2009 includes two articles. "Tired of Being Typed, or the
Pot Sherd Says,“What?” from the Middle Atlantic Archaeological Conference
(February, 2008, Ocean City Maryland) with new color photographs of some
artifacts pictured in the original work. "Aspects of a Model for the Study of
Late Woodland Horticulture, Villages, and Population Dynamics" was first
presented at the MAAC meeting in 1994. Segments from this have been pursued in
many other presentations. This is a very good example of what came from
analyzing and interpreting data in a variety of contexts over many years.
Prehistoric Farmers of
the Susquehanna Valley: Clemson Island Culture and the St. Anthony Site
(OPNEA #13) (R. Michael Stewart, 220 pages, 77 figs., 1994). This
is cultural resource management archaeology at its best. This monograph
presents a major synthesis of Clemson Island prehistory based on excavations
at the St. Anthony site, additional artifact collections, and previously
published and unpublished research; the analysis of two discrete components
with dwellings, features, and a fall through winter occupation; a revision
of the existing Clemson Island pottery typology to include shell tempered
ware; and a re-examination of Late Woodland settlement and subsistence
patterns. Large scale systematic flotation to recover botanicals and charcoal
identifications assisted in placing these occupations in their proper environmental
setting.
Dogan Point: A Shell Matrix
Site in the Lower Hudson Valley (OPNEA #14)
(Cheryl Claassen, editor, 182pp+vi, 62 figs, 18 tables, 4 appendices, 1995)
. Anyone interested in excavating a shell heap/mound/midden must read this
book first, or they will never know what they could be learning. The editor
returned to the site first excavated and reported extensively by Louis
Brennan. It is not until reaching the Gulf Coast of Florida that one can
find another site as old as Dogan Point with evidence of intensive utilization
of marine shellfish.
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Digging into Dogan Point (Claassen)
Prehistory and the Changing Holocene Geography of Dogan Point (Schuldenrein)
Biological Remains from Dogan Point (Claassen and Whyte)
Lithics and Lithic Areas (Claassen)
Microwear Analysis of Archaic and Woodland Projectile Points, Drills,
and Scrapers from Dogan Point (Kimball)
Apples and Oranges: Radiocarbon Dates on Shell and Charcoal at Dogan
Point (Little)
Dogan Point and Its Social Context (Claassen).
.A Golden Chronograph For
Robert E. Funk (OPNEA #15) (Chris Lindner
and Edward Curtin, editors, 161pp, 1996). This is the first volume
in a two volume Festschrift honoring the recently retired New York State
Archaeologist.
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Introduction and Evocation (Chris Lindner)
A Toast to Dr. Robert E. Funk, Archaeologist Extraordinaire (Bruce
Rippeteau)
Forty Years of Archaeology: or What Happened to the Good Old Days?
(Robert E. Funk)
The New York State Museum and the Rochester Museum &Science Center:
Over Eighty Years of Cooperation and Mutual Interests (Charles F. Hayes
III)
A Vital Connection: Avocational Archaeologists and the NYSAA (Robert
J. Gorall)
Archaeology in the Future: The Role of the Avocational (Gordon C. De
Angelo)
What We Wanted, What We Got, and What We Need: Reflections from the
Early Years of Archaeological Resource Management in New York State (Neal
L. Trubowitz)
Holocene Environments in the Hudson Valley (Robert J. Dineen)
Lithostratigraphy as a Predictive Tool for Prehistoric Quarry Investigations:
Examples from the Dutchess Quarry Site, Orange County, New York (Philip
C. La Porta)
Prehistoric Land Use in the Hoosic River Drainage: An Analysis of Extant
Collections from Two Glacial Lake Basins (Ellen Cesarski)
The Shell Matrix at Dogan Point (Cheryl Claassen)
New York State Museum Site 303 (Beth Wellman)
Late Archaic Period Technology and Land Use Patterns: Lessons Learned
from the Mattice No. 2 Site (Edward V. Curtin)
Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherer Settlement Models: Interpreting the Upper
Susquehanna Valley (Nina M. Versaggi)
Chert Microdrills from Eastern New York: Use-Wear on Bushkill Tools
That Might Have Made Middlesex Beads (Chris Lindner and Lisa Folb)
Vine Valley Revisited (Lisa M. Anderson)
Other publications from Archaeological Services
Experiments and Observations
on the Terminal Archaic of the Middle Atlantic Region(Roger W. Moeller,
editor, 134pp, 1990)
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Perkiomen Points: A Study in Variability (Truncer)
The Terminal Archaic in the Upper Delaware Valley: A Broad and Narrow
Perspective (Kraft)
The Late and Terminal Archaic Periods of Connecticut Prehistory: A
Model of Continuity (Pfeiffer)
Broadspear Lithic Technology: Some Aspects of Biface Manufacture, Form,
and Use History with Insights Towards Understanding Assemblage Diversity
(Cresson).
New Approaches to Other
Pasts (W. Fred Kinsey, III and Roger W. Moeller, editors, 1989, 96pp)
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Introduction (McDowell)
The Shoop Site: Thirty-five Years After (Carr)
The Relationship Between Lithic Technology and Changing Mobility Strategies
in the Middle Atlantic Region (Parry)
Lessons Taught But Not Learned, You Cannot Ignore Reality (Moeller)
Changing Traditions: Using Sears, Roebuck and Company Catalogues to
Understand Past Human Behavior (Warfel)
The Shenks Ferry Complex Revisited (Graybill)
Environmental Change and Cultural Dynamics on the Delmarva Peninsula:
Structure vs Composition (Custer)
Susquehannock Zoomorphic Art: Or Why the Seasons Change (Kinsey).
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