Eaton Site

Summary

This project contains data from 17 seasons of excavation from the Eaton Site in West Seneca, NY just south of the city of Buffalo. It is a multi-component site that was occupied intermittently from late Paleo-Indian times through the early 19th century when it contained a cabin on what was then the Buffalo Creek Reservation. The bulk of material recovered from the site is from an Iroquoian village dating to the mid-sixteenth century. The major portions of three longhouses and a palisade pertaining to the Iroquoian component were recorded on the site. Eaton is one of a number of large Iroquoian village sites found in this region dating from the 15th through the mid-17th century. The Archaeological Conservancy now owns most of the site.

This project contains data recovered as a result of 17 summer field schools directed by William Engelbrecht. An excavation report was written after each field school and these have been uploaded to this project. Rob Peltier uploaded approximately 250 digital images of floor plans of excavation units. Both these images and the yearly excavation reports are grouped together under collections for each excavation year (i.e. Eaton 1975, Eaton 1977, etc.). Five Access tables (Tables 1-4 and Extras) give artifact counts by unit and level. Publications relating to the Eaton site have also been scanned and uploaded as have many artifact photos.

Cite this Record

Eaton Site. ( tDAR id: 6030) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8B27WRJ

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

Keywords

Culture
Archaic • Early Archaic • Historic • Late Archaic • Middle Archaic • PaleoIndian • Woodland

Material
Ceramic • Chipped Stone • Dating Sample • Fauna • Fire Cracked Rock • Glass • Ground Stone • Human Remains

Site Name
Eaton

Site Type
Domestic Structures

Investigation Types
Data Recovery / Excavation

Geographic Keywords
Western New York

Temporal Keywords
Multi-component

Temporal Coverage

Calendar Date: -10000 to 2000

Spatial Coverage

min long: -78.802; min lat: 42.823 ; max long: -78.766; max lat: 42.859 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contributor(s): ; Sean Hanrahan

Record Identifiers

NRHP Reference(s): 79001581

Resources Inside this Project (Viewing 1-40 of 40)

There are 40 Datasets within this Project [remove this filter]

Datasets

  1. Biface Fragment Summary (2013)
  2. Broken Endscraper Summary (2013)
  3. Broken Knives Summary (2013)
  4. Broken Scraper Summary (2013)
  5. Core Fragment Summary (2013)
  6. Core Summary (2013)
  7. Debris Summary (2013)
  8. Drill Summary (2013)
  9. Drills (2022)
  10. Eaton Artifact Tabulations (2013)
  11. Eaton Faunal Database (2015)
  12. Eaton Non-Iroquoian Points (2023)
  13. Exhausted Core Summary (2013)
  14. Faunal Data (2010)
  15. Fire Altered Rock Summary (2013)
  16. Ground Stone Chopping Tool Summary (2013)
  17. Ground Stone Grinding Tool Summary (2013)
  18. Ground Stone Pounding Tool Summary (2013)
  19. Ground Stone Smoothing Tool Summary (2013)
  20. Knife Summary (2013)
  21. Madison Point Refits (2014)
  22. Madison Points (2015)
  23. Multi-purpose tool summary. (2013)
  24. Notch (spokeshave) Summary (2013)
  25. Pipe Summary (2013)
  26. Point Base Summary (2013)
  27. Point Bases (Eaton) (2015)
  28. Point Mid-section Summary (2013)
  29. Point Summary (2013)
  30. Point Tip Summary (2013)
  31. Refit Table 2 (2017)
  32. Scraper Summary (2013)
  33. Scraper/Knife Access Table (2020)
  34. Sherd Summary (2013)
  35. Stage 2 Biface Preform Summary (2013)
  36. Stage 2.5 Biface Preform Summary (2013)
  37. Stage 3 Biface Preform Summary (2013)
  38. Stage 3.5 Biface Preform Summary (2013)
  39. Tool Fragment Summary (2013)
  40. Whole Endscraper Summary (2013)