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for allowing me repeated and untethered access to the
Thomas/Luckey site, and who funded, encouraged,
and facilitated our research at this site. Research at
Broome Tech resulted from Cultural Resource
Management contracts at the Public Archaeology
Facility (PAF) at Binghamton University (SUNY) funded
by the New York State Department of
Transportation through the New York State Educatiion
Department, Broome County Department of Planning
and Economic Development, and the Newman
Development Group of Dickinson. I am grateful to
these sponsors. The staff of PAF and Binghamton
University 1994 and 1995 field schools performed the
fieldwork at these sites. I truly appreciate the excitement
and dedication the crews and students brought to
their work at these sites. I wish to thank Margaret
Scarry and Nancy Asch Sidell for their identification of
the botanical remains reported in this chapter. All laboratory
research for these sites was performed by the
staff at PAF. I wish to thank Laurie Miroff, Susan
Pollock, Laura Knapp and Nina Versaggi, whose comments
on early drafts greatly improved this paper. I am
particularly indebted to Nina for her constant encouragement
and unwavering support of my research. All
errors and omissions are my responsibility.
END NOTES
1. Subsequent excavations documented the presence
of a second longhouse and associated features
(Miroff 2000). This paper deals only with
Structure 1 and surrounding features excavated
in 1994.
2. Treatment of human remains followed the guidelines
of the federal Native American Graves and
Repatriation Act and included consultation with
Chief Paul Waterman of the Onondaga Territory
near Syracuse, N.Y. Remains were repatriated
under the supervision of Chief Waterman.
3. Botanical remains recovered from the midden are
still under review and have not been included in
this paper. A focus on feature data from Broome
Tech provides similar contexts to
Thomas/Luckey, where the only botanical
remains analyzed were recovered from features.
4. Wood and its associated categories (bark, twigs,
pitch, and buds) were not included in the analysis
of sample compositions.
5. A scan of features not subject to detailed analysis
identified sunflower seeds representing domesticated
forms (Scarry 1995).
6. Beans recovered from Broome Tech and AMS
dated to A.D. 1570±40 (Hart and Scarry 1999:656)
were recovered from a context believed to postdate
the early Late Prehistoric component.
7. Wood charcoal was not analyzed at
Thomas/Luckey.
8. Seeds identified as “other”, which largely consist
of unidentified seeds, were excluded from calculations
of seed composition.
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