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...moderately thick, coarse 10 medium grit-tempered. gray to black or
buff colored ware, derived from fairly large, unornamented, straightsided,
conoidal·based vessels, cord- or fabric-roughened over the entire
surtace, both outside and inside (Ritchie 1980: 194).
Tubular pipes, similar to those clthe Middlesex Phase but made of clay, are
also noted. These are made of a clay having the same paste characteristics as
Vinette I pottery (Snow 1980: 266).
Most data available for the Meadowood Phase come from New York state,
and the majority of these from buriaJ siles. Some New York habitation sites
have been discovered, with sile distribution indicating a preference for flat terrain
near rivers and smaJllakes (Ritchie 1969: 181).
This riverine/lacustrine settlement pattern is copied in the Maine-Maritimes'
region. Meadowood artifacts have been recovered from the Mud Lake Stream
site (Deal 1986) in the Chiputneticook·St. Croix drainage, and at the Tozer
(Wintemberg 1937) and Wilson (Allen 1983) sites in the Red Bank/Sunny
Corners area in northeastern New Brunswick. Spot finds of Meadowood projec­
tile points are also recorded for other parts of the province of New Brunswick
(Turnbull n.el.). Meadowood Phase sites are also known from Penobscot Bay
(Belcher 1987; Bourque 1988: personal communication). Vinette I pottery has
a(so been recovered at Maine sites, but there are few radiocarbon dates
available (see Petersen and Sanger n.d.). These are dates of 2720±90 8.P. and
2270±90 B.P. from the Knox site in Penobscot Bay associated with corded
pottery; however, only the latter date is associated with lithic artifacts similar to
Meadowood Phase assemblages (Belcher 1987). Corded pottery, cognate with