Three Sixteenth-Century Mohawk Iroquois Village Sites

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Bob Funk beginning excavations at the Klock site, 1969. vi Three Sixteenth-Century Mohawk Iroquois Village Sites
CONTENTS List of Figures.............................................................................................................................................................. List of Tables ............................................................................................................................................................... Preface........................................................................................................................................................................... ix xi xiii Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................................................. 1 Theoretical Considerations and Goals of the Investigations.................................................................. 2 History and Methods of Archaeological Investigations .......................................................................... 3 The Environmental Setting in the Middle Mohawk Valley ................................................................... 5 Chapter 2: THE KLOCK SITE ................................................................................................................................. 9 Location and Setting........................................................................................................................................ 9 Investigations: Methods and Results........................................................................................................... 9 Longhouses........................................................................................................................................................ 11 Possible Attached Structures ......................................................................................................................... 17 Other Settlement Aspects............................................................................................................................... 17 Palisade .............................................................................................................................................................. 17 Post Molds: Attributes and Descriptive Statistics..................................................................................... 19 Features Other than Post Molds.................................................................................................................... 21 The Locations of Features Inside and Outside of Houses....................................................................... 28 Discussion of Features .................................................................................................................................... 29 Artifacts .............................................................................................................................................................. 31 Pottery....................................................................................................................................................... 34 Ceramic Pipes .......................................................................................................................................... 37 Projectile Points ....................................................................................................................................... 37 Other Chipped Stone Artifacts.............................................................................................................. 40 Chert Source Materials ........................................................................................................................... 41 Rough Stone Artifacts............................................................................................................................. 41 Ground Stone Artifacts........................................................................................................................... 43 Bone and Antler Artifacts ...................................................................................................................... 43 Shell Artifacts........................................................................................................................................... 44 Textiles ...................................................................................................................................................... 44 European Goods...................................................................................................................................... 44 Subsistence Remains....................................................................................................................................... 44 Radiocarbon Dates........................................................................................................................................... 47 Chapter 3: THE SMITH-PAGERIE SITE ............................................................................................................... 49 Location and Setting........................................................................................................................................ 49 Investigations: Methods and Results........................................................................................................... 50 Longhouses........................................................................................................................................................ 52 Other Possible Structures............................................................................................................................... 56 Other Settlement Aspects............................................................................................................................... 56 Palisade .............................................................................................................................................................. 56 Post Molds: Attributes and Descriptive Statistics..................................................................................... 57 Table of Contents vii
Page 1 and 2: THREE SIXTEENTH-CENTURY MOHAWK IROQ
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Page 5: Bob Funk analyzing Iroquoian cerami
Page 9 and 10: LIST OF FIGURES Figure 1. Map of th
Page 11 and 12: LIST OF TABLES Table 1. Klock site
Page 13 and 14: PREFACE This volume presents final
Page 15: constructive comments on the potter
Page 18 and 19: Figure 1. Map of the Middle Mohawk
Page 20 and 21: excavations at other sites over the
Page 22 and 23: Figure 2. Bedrock map of the middle
Page 24 and 25: The bedrock underlying the area of
Page 26 and 27: Figure 4. Photograph of excavations
Page 28 and 29: was that the houses were placed on
Page 30 and 31: Figure 8. Detailed map of western p
Page 32 and 33: Figure 10. Photograph of post molds
Page 34 and 35: western extension of House 1; tests
Page 36 and 37: Figure 12. Graphic showing drawn pr
Page 38 and 39: Table 2—Continued Number Section
Page 46 and 47: Figure 17. Photograph of a dog buri
Page 48 and 49: Figure 21. Graphic showing drawn pr
Page 50 and 51: Table 3—Continued Ground Stone Ce
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Iroquoian visits to the site locale
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The 26 objects classified as hammer
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These complete examples ranged in l
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A minimum of 121 animals were repre
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Given the limited precision of radi
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foothills of the Adirondacks. The e
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Figure 27. Photograph of excavation
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Figure 29. Detailed map of eastern
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the walls of a house, it was about
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Table 12. Smith-Pagerie Site Post-M
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Table 13—Continued Number Section
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House 4. Features 55, 57, 92, 98-10
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Figure 38. Graphic showing drawn pr
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Table 14—Continued Bone and Antle
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pot inverted and partially embedded
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10 8 6 4 2 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Number
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triangular in shape, nearly all of
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Ovate knives and bifaces in process
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ence is an indication of interactio
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CHAPTER 4 THE GAROGA SITE 1 Chapter
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The plow zone, laced by the roots o
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Figure 45. Detailed map of western
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Figure 47. Photograph of partially
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Figure 50. Photograph of stockade L
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In this regard, the convention of r
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FEATURES OTHER THAN POST MOLDS Feat
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Figure 58. Graphic showing drawn pr
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Between House 9 and north bank: Fea
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 13 14 12 15
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4 5 6 7 8 3 9 1 2 10 11 13 15 16 17
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Table 34. Summary Statistics for St
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Beads, tubular, in process, bear me
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planned as a unit. If this is so, t
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However, we do feel compelled to co
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Figure 61. Graph of plotted radioca
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POINTED PLAIN (no castellation) ROU
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0-10 MM 11-20 MM 21-30 MM 31-40 MM
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FOUR TWO or THREE ONE NONE (undecor
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Bradley (1987:55) has noted that th
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upon how far apart they are. Centro
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sites clearly demonstrate that they
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to provide a ratio for the site: on
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Klock Site Range in lengths of Hous
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Figure 73. Revised map of Getman si
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was under the direction of Father T
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yet succeeded in demonstrating the
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and ceremony pervaded all aspects o
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sherds. The better pottery almost a
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Chilton, E.S. 1999. Embodiments of
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Kuhn, R.D., and R.E. Funk. 1994. Mo
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Snow, D.R., C.T. Gehring, and W.A.
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