OCCASIONAL PUBLICATIONS IN NORTHEASTERN ANTHROPOLOGY (OPNEA)

ISSN 0276-8607

OPNEA #1 - 10 are out-of-print

The Archaeology and Ethnohistory of  the Lower Hudson Valley and Neighboring Regions: Papers in Honor of Louis A. Brennan (OPNEA #11) (Herbert C. Kraft, editor, 1991, 254pp, 100+ illus)

Louis Brennan: His Life and Works (Kraft)

MALFA and the Louis A. Brennan Lower Hudson Chapter (Wingerson)
The Lower Hudson: The Archaic (Brennan)
New Excavations at Dogan Point (Claassen)
The Message in the Midden (Custer)
Data from Shells: Theory in Search of a Method (Abraham)
Quahog "Shell Tools" (Stanzeski)
Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Human Adaptations (Funk)
Re-examination of the Old Lyme Shell Heap (Lavin)
Vertebrate Archaeofauna from the Old Lyme Shell Heap Site (Amorosi)
Paleosalinity of the Lower Hudson River: Evidence from Zooarchaeology (Parris)
The Wicker's Creek Prehistoric Site at Dobbs Ferry, Westchester County, New York (Roberts)
Archaic and Woodland Occupations at Teller's Point (Fiedel)
Prehistoric Indians at the Requa Site (Schaper)
The Mohonk Rockshelter: A Major Neville site in New York State (Eisenberg)
Native American Rock Art in the Lower Hudson Valley and Coastal New York (Lenik)
European Contact and Trade in the Lower Hudson Valley (Kraft)
The King of New Jersey (Grumet)
The Munsee and the Northern Unami Today (Oestreicher).

Analyzing and Interpreting Late Woodland Features (OPNEA #12) (Roger W. Moeller, 20 figures, appendix, 120pp, 13 tables, 1992, revised 2009). An analysis of more than 100 pit features at the Faucett site in Bushkill, Pennsylvania, revealed that Late Woodland refuse pits were necessary facilities for very intensive, short term, food processing activities. Nearby storage pits were used only for a very short time to protect the freshly processed food from scavengers and decomposition. These were emptied prior to the seasonal abandonment of the site. Although diagnostic ceramics with Owasco, Oak Hill, Chance, and Munsee motifs date the occupations from ca. 1000-1550 A.D., seasonality and resource selection vary little. The settlement and subsistence model discussed accounts for this redundancy as well as the distribution and frequency of many classes of artifacts found in Late Woodland features at non-village sites in the Northeast and Midwest. A highly detailed model of Woodland site formation processes is also developed to explain why pits are not pristine contexts, why they do not contain a complete record of a single occupation, and why certain behavior patterns are incorrectly believed to be absent in earlier periods. An Epilogue written in 2009 includes two articles. "Tired of Being Typed, or the Pot Sherd Says,“What?” from the Middle Atlantic Archaeological Conference (February, 2008, Ocean City Maryland) with new color photographs of some artifacts pictured in the original work. "Aspects of a Model for the Study of Late Woodland Horticulture, Villages, and Population Dynamics" was first presented at the MAAC meeting in 1994. Segments from this have been pursued in many other presentations. This is a very good example of what came from analyzing and interpreting data in a variety of contexts over many years.

Prehistoric Farmers of the Susquehanna Valley: Clemson Island Culture and the St. Anthony Site (OPNEA #13) (R. Michael Stewart, 220 pages, 77 figs., 1994). This is cultural resource management archaeology at its best. This monograph presents a major synthesis of Clemson Island prehistory based on excavations at the St. Anthony site, additional artifact collections, and previously published and unpublished research; the analysis of two discrete components with dwellings, features, and a fall through winter occupation; a revision of the existing Clemson Island pottery typology to include shell tempered ware; and a re-examination of Late Woodland settlement and subsistence patterns. Large scale systematic flotation to recover botanicals and charcoal identifications assisted in placing these occupations in their proper environmental setting.

Dogan Point: A Shell Matrix Site in the Lower Hudson Valley (OPNEA #14) (Cheryl Claassen, editor, 182pp+vi, 62 figs, 18 tables, 4 appendices, 1995) . Anyone interested in excavating a shell heap/mound/midden must read this book first, or they will never know what they could be learning. The editor returned to the site first excavated and reported extensively by Louis Brennan. It is not until reaching the Gulf Coast of Florida that one can find another site as old as Dogan Point with evidence of intensive utilization of marine shellfish.

Digging into Dogan Point (Claassen)

Prehistory and the Changing Holocene Geography of Dogan Point (Schuldenrein)
Biological Remains from Dogan Point (Claassen and Whyte)
Lithics and Lithic Areas (Claassen)
Microwear Analysis of Archaic and Woodland Projectile Points, Drills, and Scrapers from Dogan Point (Kimball)
Apples and Oranges: Radiocarbon Dates on Shell and Charcoal at Dogan Point (Little)
Dogan Point and Its Social Context (Claassen).

.A Golden Chronograph For Robert E. Funk (OPNEA #15) (Chris Lindner and Edward Curtin, editors, 161pp, 1996). This is the first volume in a two volume Festschrift honoring the recently retired New York State Archaeologist.

Introduction and Evocation (Chris Lindner)

A Toast to Dr. Robert E. Funk, Archaeologist Extraordinaire (Bruce Rippeteau)
Forty Years of Archaeology: or What Happened to the Good Old Days? (Robert E. Funk)
The New York State Museum and the Rochester Museum &Science Center: Over Eighty Years of Cooperation and Mutual Interests (Charles F. Hayes III)
A Vital Connection: Avocational Archaeologists and the NYSAA (Robert J. Gorall)
Archaeology in the Future: The Role of the Avocational (Gordon C. De Angelo)
What We Wanted, What We Got, and What We Need: Reflections from the Early Years of Archaeological Resource Management in New York State (Neal L. Trubowitz)
Holocene Environments in the Hudson Valley (Robert J. Dineen)
Lithostratigraphy as a Predictive Tool for Prehistoric Quarry Investigations: Examples from the Dutchess Quarry Site, Orange County, New York (Philip C. La Porta)
Prehistoric Land Use in the Hoosic River Drainage: An Analysis of Extant Collections from Two Glacial Lake Basins (Ellen Cesarski)
The Shell Matrix at Dogan Point (Cheryl Claassen)
New York State Museum Site 303 (Beth Wellman)
Late Archaic Period Technology and Land Use Patterns: Lessons Learned from the Mattice No. 2 Site (Edward V. Curtin)
Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherer Settlement Models: Interpreting the Upper Susquehanna Valley (Nina M. Versaggi)
Chert Microdrills from Eastern New York: Use-Wear on Bushkill Tools That Might Have Made Middlesex Beads (Chris Lindner and Lisa Folb)
Vine Valley Revisited (Lisa M. Anderson)

Other publications from Archaeological Services

Experiments and Observations on the Terminal Archaic of the Middle Atlantic Region(Roger W. Moeller, editor, 134pp, 1990)

Perkiomen Points: A Study in Variability (Truncer)

The Terminal Archaic in the Upper Delaware Valley: A Broad and Narrow Perspective (Kraft)
The Late and Terminal Archaic Periods of Connecticut Prehistory: A Model of Continuity (Pfeiffer)
Broadspear Lithic Technology: Some Aspects of Biface Manufacture, Form, and Use History with Insights Towards Understanding Assemblage Diversity (Cresson).

New Approaches to Other Pasts (W. Fred Kinsey, III and Roger W. Moeller, editors, 1989, 96pp)

Introduction (McDowell)

The Shoop Site: Thirty-five Years After (Carr)
The Relationship Between Lithic Technology and Changing Mobility Strategies in the Middle Atlantic Region (Parry)
Lessons Taught But Not Learned, You Cannot Ignore Reality (Moeller)
Changing Traditions: Using Sears, Roebuck and Company Catalogues to Understand Past Human Behavior (Warfel)
The Shenks Ferry Complex Revisited (Graybill)
Environmental Change and Cultural Dynamics on the Delmarva Peninsula: Structure vs Composition (Custer)
Susquehannock Zoomorphic Art: Or Why the Seasons Change (Kinsey).

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