The Ripley Site Midden: Iroquoian Refuse Disposal in Chautauqua County, Western New York

Summary

The Ripley Site is a Late Woodland through Historic period Iroquoian site overlooking Lake Erie, in the Eastern Lake section of the Central Lowlands physiographic province in western New York. In its continuing investigations of the bluff-top site, Mercyhurst University (Erie, PA) is focusing attention on a presumed refuse midden, where the village’s inhabitants cast refuse downslope toward Young’s Run, which lies to the east of the village, proper. Here, we define the boundaries of the midden, characterize the materials found therein, and, when possible, compare and contrast the assemblages from the midden and adjacent village.

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• Society for American Archaeology 80th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2015)

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