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Table 7.2. Summary of Ceramic Vessels Analyzed from Each Site.
Site Clemson Island Owasco Total
n percent n percent n percent
Tioga Point Farm (36BR52, 36BR3) 4 8.7 10 21.7 14 30.4
Wells (36BR59) 6 13.0 3 6.5 9 19.6
St. Anthony’s (36UN11) 3 6.5 6 13.0 9 19.6
Fisher Farm (36CE35) 11 23.9 3 6.5 14 30.4
Total 24 52.1 22 47.8 46 100.0
discriminant function analysis, and cluster analysis
were applied to determine heterogeneity between
samples.
RESULTS
Five groups were identified (Table 7.3). Principal
components analysis showed that 91.9 percent of the
total variance in the data set could be explained by the
first four components (Rb, Sr, Zr, and Y). Mapping
these components as scatterplots provided further evidence
of the spatial distribution of these groups, which
was supported by single linkage cluster analysis
(Figure 7.4). In this chapter, these five groups are
referred to as Otsego, Upland, Tioga, West Branch, and
Unknown (Table 7.3). Group descriptions and their
relationship to the ceramic types and settlement characteristics
of the sites are presented below.
Tioga is the largest group (Table 7.3). Of the 30
sherds in this group, 7 (23.3 percent) were from Tioga
Point Farm, 9 (30 percent) from Wells, 2 (6.6 percent)
from St. Anthony’s, and 11 (36.7 percent) from Fisher
Farm. Clay sample 4, which was extracted from a
deposit in Bradford County, Pennsylvania, also clustered
within this group. The sherds in this group
belong to both the Clemson Island (n=18) and Owasco
(n=11) types and are largely decorated with exterior
cordmarking. Regardless of ceramic tradition, all but
three vessels contained a small (