Early Archaic Projectile Points and Hunting Patterns in the Lower Illinois Valley. Kubet Luchterhand. Illinois State Museum Reports of Investigations, No. 19, and Illinois Valley Archaeological Program, Research Papers, Vol. 3, and Illinois Archaeological Survey, Monograph 2, Springfield, 1970. xv + 67 pp., 3 appendices. $3.50.

1972 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 560-561
Author(s):  
Patty Jo Watson
1957 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-84
Author(s):  
Carl F. Miller

During recent excavations in the archaeological deposits in Russell Cave, Jackson County, Alabama (Miller 1956), we reached a depth of 13 feet. From this level we collected a large sample of charcoal found in association with chert projectile points whose shape suggests a placement at the end of paleo-Indian times and the beginning of early Archaic times.


1959 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Witthoft

AbstractThe long stratigraphic sequence of separate archaeological horizons at the mouth of the gorge of the Pee Dee River in North Carolina necessitates changing earlier reconstructions of Piedmont archaeology. The stratigraphically documented series of projectile points from this site makes it possible to separate in time the varied forms of points originally assigned to the Baden and Guilford foci. Moreover, this evidence contradicts the typological arrangements of points in terms of logical evolutionary development and suggests that Archaic sequences in other parts of the Appalachian region may have to be radically changed when stratigraphic data become available. Stratigraphy at the Duncan's Island site in Pennsylvania, though less precise than that at the Pee Dee site, indicates that the local typological reconstructions for parts of Pennsylvania are in need of revision. Basal levels at Duncan's Island produce quartzite tools of types scattered throughout central Pennsylvania and often considered to represent an extremely early Archaic industry. The concentration of quartzite tools at the DeTurk site, though not dated stratigraphically, provides typological justification for the idea that the quartzite industry may be a survival of an earlier forest-based proto-Archaic tradition.


Hohokam Archaeology Along the Salt-Gila Aqueduct, Central Arizona Project. Lynn S. Teague and Patricia Crown, editors. Arizona State Museum Archaeological Series 150, The University of Arizona, Tucson. - Volume I: Research Design. Contributions by R. Barber, M. Bartlett, P. Crown, W. Deaver, S. Fish, R. Gardner, D. Gregory, S. Jernigan, M. Mallouf, C. Miksicek, And L. Teague. 1982. $9.00 (paper); Volume II: Supplemental Archaeological Survey. Contributions by C. MACCARTY, E. SIRES, J. Gibb, R. Ervin, And A. Dart. 1982. $7.00 (paper). - Volume III: Specialized Activity Sites. Contributions by E. Sires, F. Hull, A. Dart, W. Deaver, S. Fish, C. Miksicek, R. Barber, and R. Harrington. 1983. (2 books). $22.00 (paper). - Volume IV: Prehistoric Occupation of the Queen Creek Delta. Contributions by D. Gregory, E. Sires, P. Crown, S. Fish, M. Bartlett, M. Bernard-Shaw, L. Teague, C. Miksicek, R. Barber, R. Harrington, C. Szuter, B. Murphy, R. Lange, and W. Deaver. 1984. (3 books). $23.50 (paper). - Volume V: Small Habitation Sites on Queen Creek. Contributions by P. Crown, E. Sires, D. Abbott, F. Huntington, W. Deaver, A. Dart, F. Hull, S. Fish, C. Miksicek, R. Barber, R. Harrington, B. Murphy, And R. Lange. 1983. (2 books). $20.00 (paper). - Volume VI: Habitation Sites on the Gila River. Contributions by W. Deaver, A. Ferg, E. Sires, C. Shaw, S. Fish, C. Miksicek, R. Barber, R. Harrington, B. Murphy, And R. Lange. 1983. (3 books). $25.00 (paper). - Volume VII: Environment and Subsistence. Contributions by S. Fish, C. Miksicek, C. Szuter, P. Crown, R. Barber, and F. Hull. 1984. $23.00 (paper). - Volume VIII: Material Culture. Contributions by D. Abbott, P. Crown, J. Hepburn, M. Bernard-Shaw, M. Ebinger, A. Vokes, and C. Szuter. 1984. (2 books). $23.00 (paper). - Volume IX: Synthesis and Conclusions. Contributions by L. Teague, A. Rogge, P. Crown, E. Sires, and G. Laden. 1984. $24.00 (paper). (10% discount on any order over $ 100). (Also available through National Technical Information Service, Springfield, VA)..

1987 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 417-420
Author(s):  
David A. Phillips

1970 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 104-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey P. Brain

AbstractScattered finds of Dalton, Quad, Plainview, and Scottsbluff projectile points in the Yazoo Basin of west-central Mississippi affirm the presence of an early Archaic occupation in at least that region of the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley. These finds are associated with present surfaces in the alluvial flood plain which are geologic relicts formed prior to the final stages of the post-Pleistocene filling of the valley.


1954 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 170-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melvin L. Fowler

Fluted points, like many other artifacts, seem to be more common than previously thought. Once attention is called to a given item representative specimens are 'found in existing collections only waiting to be recognized. Smail (1951) has presented a discussion of many points of this type from the St. Louis area in Illinois.Recently several interesting specimens have been brought to the Illinois State Museum and are here illustrated, due to their unusual combination of attributes and location. The first of these (Fig. 57) was found in Fulton County in 1924 by the late Frank Aidrich of Bloomington, Illinois. It is lanceolate in shape, WA inches long, 114 inches wide about % of the length from the base, and lenticular in cross section. Its very delicate chipping produced parallel long flake scars running from each edge to the center. The base is ground on each side and across the bottom.


ARCTIC ◽  
1957 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 189
Author(s):  
R.S. MacNeish

... I shall attempt to summarize the various archaeological activities that occurred in the Arctic and subarctic during the last summer. ... Members of a party called Operation Hazen organized by the Defence Research Board as part of the Canadian program for the International Geophysical Year worked on archaeological remains on Ellesmere Island, discovering four sites of aboriginal structures. One, about twenty miles north of Lake Hazen; one on the shores of Lake Hazen; and two along the Ruggles River. Few artifacts were uncovered since they did no digging. These sites, however, are of considerable significance for not only are they the northernmost sites in the Canadian Arctic but they are situated along the hypothetical route of migration from the Canadian Arctic to Greenland. ... Dr. Jorgen Meldgaard of the National Museum of Denmark, returned to the Alarnerk Site in the Igloolik area on the Melville Peninsula after two season's absence. ... Most of these early pre-Dorset remains appear to belong to an early and late period having burins, micro-blades, side-blades, small end-blades, and other artifacts indicating a close relationship with both the Cape Denbigh Flint Complex of Alaska as well as with Sarqaq of Greenland. The sequential changes in his artifact types from these pre-Dorset remains closely parallel change of types from the four middle cultural phases from the Firth River in the Canadian Yukon. ... Mr. William E. Taylor of the National Museum of Canada undertook preliminary excavation and survey in the interior as well as the coast and adjacent islands of the northern part of the Ungava Peninsula. His activities in the interior were at Payne Lake where he found about forty house remains, of which he excavated four. All of these were Dorset with one having a slight overlay of Eskimo remains. On the coast at the estuary of the Payne River, he uncovered another Dorset site as well as one Dorset burial. ... At Sugluk, seven sites were investigated and five of these appear to be Dorset villages with semi-subterranean rectangular houses. My endeavours were in the southern part of the Yukon Territory between Johnsons Crossing, Kluane Lake, Dawson City, and Mayo. Ninety-seven sites were discovered as well as about 1,000 artifacts. The sites seem to belong to at least six different artifact complexes, four of which were below the volcanic ash layers dated about 300 A.D. Twenty-eight of the sites are micro-blade sites. In Alaska, Dr. Ivar Skarland of the Department of Anthropology of the University of Alaska, during the last part of the summer, investigated interior sites on which "Puma" projectile points have been found. Mr. Gordon Lowther, of the McCord Museum of McGill University of Montreal, undertook archaeological survey in the Old Crow Flats in the Yukon Territory. He was most successful in finding fourteen archaeological sites as well as places at which mammoth bones occurred. As yet, his materials have not been analysed ....


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