A lovely sunny fall day on the Shawangunk Ridge Report from the Field September 30, 2006

As the day begins, Tierra, Jake, Steven and Johanna take notes

Once again, most of the artifacts came from 6N0E inside the shelter. In this small gravelly deposit on top of the rock, Johanna found

A perfect Madison Point, dating to the Woodland Period, between 1200 and 450 years ago.

Madison Point from 6N0E, Layer A, Level 2

From 6N0E Layer A Level 4 came this Brewerton Side-Notched Base, dating to the Middle/Late Archaic Period, years ago, and

This large broken biface, possibly an unfinished point.

From this fire and rock feature in Layer A Level 5,

which abuts the large rock in 6N1E, came

Brian’s pride and joy: a late Archaic Snook Kill Point, made between 3900 and 2700 years ago

Snook Kill Point from 6N0E Layer A Level 5

Also from 6N0E, Layer A Level 5, a different kind of pottery.

Jake screening with Rachel, our new volunteer, who found in the screen from 6N0E Layer A Level 5 this

Middle Archaic Lamoka Point, dating from years ago.

Excavation of 6N0E ended at the top of Layer A, Level 6. We are eager to see what next week brings.

In the middle of the day, a visit from Anne Pike-Tay and Argus. Anne was fascinated by Leah’s Tablet PC.

We were happy to get back working on the firepit in 3N5E after two weeks of rainy weather. Shane and Teirra found

a clay pipe stem and bowl fragment,

a prehistoric rim sherd Exterior surface, interior surface, view of punctated rim

And this large cobble flake.

Leah and Steven worked away at 3N2E, finding little and coping with

Two different soil layers in the small section of their pit in which they could work.

Yvonne and Jake had the hardest day, digging away in what we have decided is glacial gravel. Their test pit has shown us, however, that the apron did not see as much use as we thought it would.

Next week, Yvonne and Jake will move to another test pit, closer to or under the shelter!