On 10/14/05, George Myers <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I have read Harris' original work back in the 1980's while working on
> urban archaeology sites in New York City. I have used it in the
> stratigraphic analysis of the Wickers Creek Site, Dobbs Ferry, NY, a
> multi-component site with C14 dates from about 4400 BP
>

At the time there was an article in a Norwegian (?) archaeology
journal which I was asked to read by Wendy Harris who works in
histiorical archaeology with Arnold Pickman, both have been in the
field a number of years.

The 4400 BP date should be 4400 BC for the C14 dates, 12 of 30 samples
were processed at Beta Analytic in Florida. Archaeologists had worked
on the site before I got there, where much of it was under compacted
dirt of a roadway used to haul acres of rock fill for a lower parking
lot at Mercy College. The property had belonged to Jay Gould the
railroad tycoon, ("United States financier who gained control of the
Erie Canal and who caused a financial panic in 1869 when he attempted
to corner the gold market (1836-1892)") who upon his wife's death gave
the property to the "Sister of Mercy" order, who sold it at fair
market price rather than at a price Mercy College could afford for
dormitories, so their cemetery was moved before we arrived.

A new type of possible "contact period" native ceramic was discovered
there a "Wickers Creek Type" a net corded impresssed aboriginal ware.
Some of the site's "post moulds" was attributed to "drying racks" for
fish, fishy I think, as the ambuscade and other activites nearby (a
bayonet scabbord point found) during the Revolutionary War leads me to
believe the Ontario, Canada comparative analysis, a stretch, though
how it was "concluded".