essay
The Terminal Archaic in the upper Delaware valley: a broad and narrow perspective
experiments and observations on the terminal archaic of the middle atlantic region • Bethlehem, Ct • Published In 1990 • Pages: 63-83
By: Kraft, Herbert C..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Some authors had contended that Perkiomen points could not have been used as projectile points. Instead, Bare Island and Lackawaxen Stemmed points were sugested as the points used by the hunters of the Perkiomen culture. Kraft examines several sites in the Upper Delaware River Valley and determines the Perkiomen people were hunter-gatherers who exploited several different environments, hunted a wide range of animals, and used lithic resources some distance from the Upper Delaware River Valley. In addition, the Perkiomen sites date later than the sites that contain Bare Island and Lackawaxen points, although, the Perkiomen people may have found and reused these points. Various Perkiomen tools are discussed along with other broadpoints. For another article on Perkiomen points see eHRAF document no. 19.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Artifact and archive collections
- Lithic industries
- Weapons
- General tools
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Eastern Late Archaic
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Eastern Woodlands
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sarah Berry ; 2005
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date given
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 3670±120 BP-3450±120 BP
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Upper Delaware River Valley, New Jersey and Pennsylvania; United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Herbert C. Kraft
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 81-83)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 90205480
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Indians of North America--Antiquities