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A Fluted Point from Long Island, N. Y.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

Extract

Although fluted points are not very numerous in New York, it was there that they were first recognized as a distinct type under the name of “Seneca River Points” (Beauchamp, 1897, p. 21, Fig. 13, 14).

The majority of the New York finds have been in the central section of the state and along the shores of Lake Champlain and Lake George. A search of the literature, and correspondence with both professional and amateur archaeologists, has revealed no known finds of fluted points closer to the coastal area than one at Colonie in Albany County, New York. This was of an exotic quartz (Ritchie, 1951, personal communication). Therefore the finding of a fluted point in eastern Long Island extends the known range of the type.

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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1952

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References

Beauchamp, William M. 1897. “Aboriginal Chipped Stone Implements of New York.New York State Museum, Bulletin 16, Albany, N.Y. Google Scholar