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The Archaeology of Little Wood Creek: New Chronometric EvidenceThis study reports on the establishment of viable dates for several major cultural components at the Little Wood Creek site on the upper Hudson in Fort Edward, New York. The original excavation in the mid-1980s (Grossman et al. 1990) resulted in the identification of two major periods of occupation, a deeply buried Transitional period sequence of living floors, and closer to the surface, and separated by circa five feet of sterile alluvium, a series of Late Woodland period pits and features. Both are overlain by the discovery of the southern bastion of Revolutionary War-era Fort Edward. Ambiguities in the original bulk radiocarbon dating of the site left it in chronological limbo with widely divergent determinations for both prehistoric occupation periods. New AMS dates from 10 samples, four Transitional period and six Late Woodland period assays, both refined the absolute chronology of the site complex and clarified several major issues in the cultural and environmental history of the region. Together, these two sets of dates, combined with recent high resolution environmental sequences, provide sufficient resolution to correlate the newly defined periods of occupation with major events in the pollen and climate record of eastern New York State.
Document ID
20170000023
Acquisition Source
Goddard Space Flight Center
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
Authors
Grossman, Joel W.
(Hudson River Foundation (HRF) New York, NY, United States)
Johnson, Lucille L.
(Vassar Coll. Poughkeepsie, NY, United States)
Peteet, Dorothy M.
(NASA Goddard Inst. for Space Studies New York, NY United States)
Date Acquired
January 3, 2017
Publication Date
January 1, 2015
Publication Information
Publication: Archaeology of Eastern North America
Publisher: Eastern States Archeological Federation
Volume: 43
ISSN: 0360-1021
Subject Category
Social And Information Sciences (General)
Instrumentation And Photography
Report/Patent Number
GSFC-E-DAA-TN29552
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: Proj.-C 36-1305-01
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Other
Keywords
chronology
climate
New York
pollen
alluvium

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