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Bulletin Of The Massachusetts Archaeological Society, Vol. 46, No. 2, Massachusetts Archaeological Society

Bulletin of the Massachusetts Archaeological Society

Editor’s Note (Barbara E. Luedtke)
Localities of Quarries Worked by the Indians for Material for their Stone Implements (Henry W. Haynes)
Experiments in Debitage Analysis: Some Testable Hypotheses (John J. Shea)
An Unusual Notched Pendant (Tonya Largy)
A Miniature Steatite Pot (John Alfred Mansfield)
The Charles Read Archaeological Collection, Seekonk, Massachusetts (Eric S. Johnson and Thomas F. Mahlstedt)
Thermoluminescent Dating Analysis of a Cape Cod Potsherd (Marie O. Eteson)
Potowomut Cores and Quahogs: Archaeology and the Environmental and Biological Sciences (Jordan E. Kerber)
Nature’s Transformations and Other Pitfalls: Toward a Better Understanding of Post-Occupational Changes in Archaeological Site Morphology in …

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Bulletin Of The Massachusetts Archaeological Society, Vol. 46, No. 1, Massachusetts Archaeological Society

Bulletin of the Massachusetts Archaeological Society

Editor’s Note (Barbara E. Luedtke)
An Aboriginal Ceramic Vessel from Chilmark, Dukes County, Massachusetts (James B. Petersen and Richard L. Burt)
A Preliminary Prehistory of Agawam: Analysis of the Charles W. Hull Collection (John P. Pretola)
The Dynamics of Seventeenth Century Wampanoag Land Relations: The Ethnohistorical Evidence for Locational Change (Laurie Lee Weinstein)
A Commentary on the “Late Archaic” Classification of the Satucket Cache (Floyd Painter)

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Archeological Implications Of Traditional House Construction Among The Nchumuru Of Northern Ghana, E. Kofi Agorsah

Black Studies Faculty Publications and Presentations

Ethnographic data from the Nchumuru settlement of Wiae, Kete-Krachi District, northern Volta Region, Ghana, are used to examine the manner in which earth-walled houses in Nchumuru traditional settlements are transferred from the systemic to the archeological record. Archeological survey and excavation of two early Nchumuru sites were conducted to establish the extent to which the observed cultural and natural processes of house and settlement development could help identify the location and distribution of prehistoric structural features. The result was the almost complete reconstruction of the location and distribution of structural features at one of these sites. Knowledge of the mechanisms …

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67-An Archaeological Survey Of The Mt. Pleasant Municipal Airport Expansion Project, Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, William M. Cremin

Reports of Investigations

Upon receipt of a letter and purchase order from Mr. Duane Ellis, P.E., Director of the Department of Public Works, City of Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, authorizing a Phase I archaeological site location survey of the Mt. Pleasant Municipal Airport Expansion Project, surveyors from the Department of Anthropology, Western Michigan University undertook on-site evaluation in order to determine if a planned extension of the airport runway into Section 7 of Chippewa Township would have an impact on potentially significant archaeological resources. There follows a report of fieldwork conducted on 13-14 Apr 85, together with appropriate background information and recommendations based upon …

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70-Carbonized Plant Residues From Llct385, A Late Woodland Site Near The Carlyle Reservoir In Clinton County, Illinois, William M. Cremin

Reports of Investigations

Site llCT385 is a Late Woodland site of undetermined extent located in the southeast corner of Section 25, Irishtown Township, T3N R2W, Clinton County, Illinois. Today, this site occupies an actively eroding bank of the Carlyle Reservoir, but formerly it was situated on a ridge spur flanking the eastern margin of the Kaskaskia River Valley at an elevation of about 6 m above the river floodplain.

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