Rethinking Palisades in the Northeast: Evidence from the Eaton Site

Part of the Eaton Site project

Author(s): Piotr Poplawski; Joshua J. Kwoka; William Engelbrecht

Year: 2012

Summary

Eaton is a multicomponent site located in western New York. The major component consists of an Iroquoian village dating to the mid-sixteenth century. There is a high ratio of expedient lithic tools to debitage in the area of the palisade. We explore possible explanations for this distribution and discuss the implications for the construction and maintenance of a palisade.

Cite this Record

Rethinking Palisades in the Northeast: Evidence from the Eaton Site. Piotr Poplawski, Joshua J. Kwoka, William Engelbrecht. Northeast Anthropology. (77-78): 71-87. 2012 ( tDAR id: 378472) ; doi:10.6067/XCV837783F

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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 ;

Record Identifiers

NRHP Reference(s): 79001581

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