Lake George Project

The Aurora site was previously named the Harris site after the family name of the landowner. Shovel testing was carried out at this site from July 25, 1978 to Aug. 3, 1978. Crews returned and continued shovel testing the following summer from July 25, 1979 to July 30, 1979. Shovel test pits were excavated throughout the test area which encompasses the two separate swampy areas on the Harris farm. A single artifact was uncovered by the SUNY at Albany 1978 summer investigation. This bovid...

This site was chosen for testing and excavation as a result of preliminary survey work conducted in the area by SUNY at Albany in 1974 that suggested there were a series of small camps in the area during the Archaic and later periods. The site was initially investigated on July 23, 1975. Investigations conducted between July 6, 1979 and July 23, 1979 were intended to test the hypothesis that Archaic and later period camps existed in this area and to determine the sizes of the site loci and the...

The Bacon Pond site is a kettle hole pond dating from the last glaciations of the region. The site was chosen for test excavations due to the presence of this feature. Excavators were also hopeful of reconstructing the changes in the environment over the past 12,000 years through the analysis of pollen cores. Excavations took place at the site between July 7 - July 20,1977, and from June 28 - August 3, 1978. Numerous shovel test pits and excavation squares were investigated and documented at...

The Boat Launching Site is located on the west side of South Bay and north of Route 22 and the New York State Boat Launch. The site includes the area from the northern tip of the peninsula south to Route 22, and from the knoll western descent east to the water. The site was excavated July 9 and 10, 1979.

The Bray (Battle Hill) site is associated with The Lake George Project. The Bray Site (ALB 143) is located on the lower slopes of Battle Hill. The site is a prehistoric cultural resource and was discovered by Edward Krause. The excavations here took place from July 9th until 1st of August 1979. The site was named after the landowner who was Dana S. Bray. Out of the 243 sites that were given a provisional site number with the ALB prefix only 54 sites that were tested and produced artifacts...

The Clark sites exist in the Mettawee Archaeological District on the slope of a bluff overlooking an old channel of the Mettawee River. The four defined loci are listed as Clark 1-4. Clark 1 is the major site, and the other three are minor in comparison. The excavations on the sites took place in the summer of 1977.

The Metawee District lists this site as being owning by Foote, Mitchinson, & Crachi in 1979 when excavations occurred. The Foote site is located close to water, near an oxbow lake, and thus has river characteristics an steep banks due to the oxbow. The SE corner of the site was surveyed in a systematic fashion and the remaining quadrants were sampled with shovel test pits. The site produced 47 cataloged objects and provided evidence that prehistoric woodland groups were utilizing the woodland...

The Fort Ann Quarry Site was sampled in order to provide the laboratory crew with a range of Fort Ann chert samples. These were later used to classify raw materials found at Harrisena and other sites in the Lake George Project area. Fort Ann chert occurs at several locations in the eastern part of the Lake George Project area and unfortunately, more than one of these are locally referred to as "the Fort Ann Quarry" (additional information on these sites can be found in the Fort Ann Quarry Site...

The Galick site was part of the Lake George project. The site was chosen for testing, because the Galick family had secured a large number of artifacts from portions of their farm lying near the narrow southern end of Lake Champlain. However, their collection came from a very large area and test pits on the property revealed no heavy artifact concentrations.

The Garrity site is located in the northwest of the South Bay district. The site was excavated in July of 1979. The fields of the site were divided into five sections. A preliminary survey indicated that the easternmost fields contained the greatest amount of cultural material. These fields were then systematically surveyed. They were called Cornfield 1 (Locus 1) and Cornfield 2 (Locus 2). The remaining area was divided into Zones A-D.

The Halfway Creek site consists of four loci numbered one through four; all located in a 250 hectare square extending across 149 and across Halfway Creek. Investigation of the site was undertaken as a parallel investigation of the Goodman site. The sites were treated as a single set of eight loci, and later treated as separate sights. The Halfway Creek site was surveyed in the summer of 1978, and tested in the summer of 1979. It was tested by a group of graduate students under the general...

At the time that the Harrisena Site was first discovered and tested it was usually called the Harris site. To avoid confusion with the other sites named for landowners named Harris, site ALB99 (NYSM #5076) is referred to as the Harrisena site; however, much of the paperwork might also refer to this site as "Harris". The site is located at the northern end of the central of the three portage routes linking the Hudson and Champlain drainages, which touches Lake George at the southern end of...

The Lake George Project was designed as a regional archaeological project covering an area defined by twelve continuous USGS quadrangles: Bolton Landing, Fort Ann, Glens Falls, Hartford, Hudson Falls, Lake George, Lake Luzerne, Putnam Mountain, Shelving Rock, The Glen, Warrensburg, and Whitehall. This nearly square area contains portions of the Hudson River, Lake George, and Lake Champlain. It also contains the portage routes linking these bodies of water. During the course of the Lake...

The Lane site is one of the six sites within the South Bay Archaeological District. It was chosen for test excavation because the Wheeler collection was found to contain many artifacts from this site and because it appeared to be an important component of the proposed archaeological district. The majority of the excavations were accomplished between July 1, 1979 and July 22, 1979. More fieldwork was carried out between October 7, 1979 and October 23, 1979. According to the artifact record,...

The Northwest Bay site excavations were undertaken as part of a larger effort to determine the significance of various archaeological sites for nomination to the National Register of Historic Places on behalf of the New York State Division of Historic Preservation. Through this process, the Northwest Bay site was determined to be ineligible for inclusion on the National Register. At the time, the area to be tested was owned by the State of New York Department of Environmental Conservation. ...

The Rozell site consisted of 4 known loci, and the assemblage is entirely from surface collection. All recovered artifacts are of chert or stone. The Rozell site is part of the Metawee District and located on the Metawee flood plain.

The South Bay Southeast site is part of the South Bay District. Amateur collectors had been collecting artifacts in the area for some time. The South Bay Southeast site was originally surveyed from July 22 to August 3, 1976. Due to the abundance of artifacts discovered in the area, part of the shoreline and peninsula of the South Bay District were intensively surveyed in October 1978. Two areas were then selected on the basis of this survey to be excavated further. The Garrity and Boat...

The South Bay Southwest site is part of the South Bay District. Amateur collectors had been collecting artifacts in the area for some time. Due to the abundance of artifacts previously discovered in the area, part of the shoreline and peninsula of the South Bay District were intensively surveyed in October 1978. A number of artifacts were recovered from the surface during the survey of the South Bay Southwest site on October 6 and 7, 1978.