William A Ritchie
Biographic Data
| ID | 112896 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William A Ritchie |
| GIVEN NAMES | William A |
| FAMILY NAME | Ritchie |
| SIGNATURE | RITCHIE W A |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York State Museum |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1932 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Fifty Years of Archaeology in the Northeastern United States: A Retrospect
Our editor has asked me to prepare a personal account of the most important processes and events that affected the archaeology of the northeastern United States during the last 50 years. This is no small undertaking, considering that the larger part of our knowledge of the prehistory of this area has accumulated during that time. Moreover, because the inception of my service in unraveling the prehistoric events in the Northeast precedes the perio…
Classes, Strata and Power. Wlodzimierz Wesolowski
Comment on Anderson's Review
Ground Slates: East and West
Six major hypotheses have been advanced to account for ground slate industries containing knives, lance heads, and projectile points, found on opposite sides of the North American continent. Certain of these hypotheses assume genetic connections; others postulate separate sources and developments for such artifacts in the Northeast and North Pacific areas.A recent study of the cultures involved, chiefly Borden's (1962) Vancouver data, has indicat…
The Principles of Politics. J. R. Lucas
The Donaldson Site
The Antiquity of Pottery in the Northeast
Radiocarbon dates indicate the beginning of fiber-tempered pottery in Georgia and Florida around 2000 B.C. In discussing the relative antiquity of ceramics in the Southeast and Northeast, Bullen rejects a radiocarbon date of 2448 B.C. for Vinette 1 pottery from the Hunter site, New York, because of dubious association of pottery and burial complex. The association is shown to be secure, but a new gas-method radiocarbon date of 841 B.C. for the sa…
Archeology: Susquehannock Miscellany. John Witthoft and W. Fred Kinsey, III
The Eastern Dispersal of Adena
In the upper Ohio Valley, Adena mounds and their burials are less complex than, but essentially similar to, those of the major Adena centers of Ohio and Kentucky. Chronologically, they belong in the middle and late Adena periods. Two Adena sites much farther east have been found on Chesapeake Bay; they are closer in trait inventories and in radiocarbon dates to upper Ohio Valley sites than to Adena sites farther west. A reappraisal of evidence fr…
To the Members of the Society for American Archaeology
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Archeology. Prehistory of the Upper Ohio Valley: An Introductory Archeological Study. William J. Mayer‐Oakes
Each to the Other
There has been, of late, much ado in archaeological circles about amateur and professional relations. Actually, there is no new problem here; there has always been an area of strain as well as an area of amicable cooperation between these groups. The tension, it is true, grows more acute with the rapid decrease in number of good sites and is, therefore, simply another manifestation of the competitive friction associated with increasing population…
Arthur Caswell Parker-1881-1955
On New Year's Day, 1955, after an eventful and fruitful life of 73 years, Arthur Caswell Parker died suddenly of a heart attack. Even on the final day of his life he had been busy about the delightful hilltop home overlooking Canandaigua Lake, where he and Mrs. Parker had spent his "active retirement" period since 1945, when he terminated a score of his most productive years as director of the Rochester Museum of Arts and Sciences. It was largely…
An Archaeological Classification of Culture Contact Situations
The authors of this paper met at Harvard University in July, 1955, to discuss the theoretical problems which arise in the study of culture contact situations in archaeology. The subject of contacts between cultures is one in which ethnologists have long been interested, and there is a substantial body of literature, both descriptive and theoretical, on contemporary and recent historic situations of this kind. Archaeological interest in the subjec…
A Probable Paleo-Indian Site in Vermont
Since the scientific recognition of a paleo-Indian occupation of the Southwest and high Plains, beginning with the Folsom discoveries in 1927 (Roberts, 1940), the presence of man in the eastern United States prior to the earliest demonstrated cultures of the Archaic period has been suspected on the evidence of random surface finds of fluted points. Some of these artifacts have typologically been equated with the Clovis Fluted form (Krieger, 1947,…
The Archeology of the Northeastern United States. Richard S. MacNeish
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Paleopathological evidence suggesting pre‐Columbian tuberculosis in New York State
Radiocarbon Dates on Samples from New York State
Radiocarbon dates on charcoal samples from New York State have added significant new data to our knowledge of previously little known factors of chronology and continuity in the area. The dates have provided the lower portions of an apparently valid time scale upon which may be reared a more realistic three-dimensional picture of the prehistoric events of this portion of the United States. Sample 191 was excavated by the writer from a hearth situ…
A Current Synthesis of New York Prehistory
Since my synthesis (Ritchie, 1944) additional chronological and other data (Smith, 1950; Bullen, 1949) have accumulated for the New York area from interrelated field (Ritchie, 1946; also excavations of 1950 on same site) and laboratory (Ritchie and MacNeish, 1949; MacNeish, n.d.) researches. Among the significant sites recently excavated by the writer, which have contributed to the problem of cultural continuity are the Jack's Reef site, to be fu…
Another Probable Case of Prehistoric Bear Ceremonialism in New York
In a prior paper I have described, from central New York, an archaeological instance of probable bear ceremonialism in the Owasco culture. A recent find in western New York, although of somewhat dissimilar character, strengthens the probability of the existence prehistorically in New York of a special and reverential attitude toward the bear, this time apparently among an Iroquois people. Briefly, the nature and circumstances of the new discovery…
County Town. A Civic Survey for the Planning of Worcester
John Haynes Bailey, 1909-48
On the night of July 5, 1948, under circumstances which may never be explained, John Haynes Bailey 'shuffled off this mortal coil.' Some two years previously he had undergone a major surgical operation from which, insofar as his family and his friends were aware, he had recovered, but the incubus of ill health offers the most probable solution to the enigma of his tragic death.Born on May 22, 1909, in the western New York village of Dansville, as…
Ritchie to Johnson
The Menace of Provincialism in Archaeology
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A Perspective of Northeastern Archaeology
Arbitrarily considered, the Northeastern geographical area embraces the Maritime Provinces of Canada, lower Quebec and Ontario (exclusive of the peninsula), and all of New England, New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Obviously such a large territory (some 485,000 square miles) constitutes neither a single physiographical nor cultural province, but in a general way it was the domain, in both historic and prehistoric times, of two far flung ethn…
Culture Influences from Ohio in New York Archaeology
In the course of its long and eventful prehistory, the territory embraced in the present state of New York was invaded from nearly every direction. For several groups, notably the Iroquois, it was the end of the trail; others sojourned briefly and passed on. In part it was heavily occupied by diverse bands for a considerable period of time. This is especially true of the central and southern sections and of large parts of the Genesee Valley. The …
A Probable Paleo-Indian Site in Vermont
Since the scientific recognition of a paleo-Indian occupation of the Southwest and high Plains, beginning with the Folsom discoveries in 1927 (Roberts, 1940), the presence of man in the eastern United States prior to the earliest demonstrated cultures of the Archaic period has been suspected on the evidence of random surface finds of fluted points. Some of these artifacts have typologically been equated with the Clovis Fluted form (Krieger, 1947,…
A Perspective of Northeastern Archaeology
Arbitrarily considered, the Northeastern geographical area embraces the Maritime Provinces of Canada, lower Quebec and Ontario (exclusive of the peninsula), and all of New England, New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Obviously such a large territory (some 485,000 square miles) constitutes neither a single physiographical nor cultural province, but in a general way it was the domain, in both historic and prehistoric times, of two far flung ethn…
Ground Slates: East and West
Six major hypotheses have been advanced to account for ground slate industries containing knives, lance heads, and projectile points, found on opposite sides of the North American continent. Certain of these hypotheses assume genetic connections; others postulate separate sources and developments for such artifacts in the Northeast and North Pacific areas.A recent study of the cultures involved, chiefly Borden's (1962) Vancouver data, has indicat…
The Eastern Dispersal of Adena
In the upper Ohio Valley, Adena mounds and their burials are less complex than, but essentially similar to, those of the major Adena centers of Ohio and Kentucky. Chronologically, they belong in the middle and late Adena periods. Two Adena sites much farther east have been found on Chesapeake Bay; they are closer in trait inventories and in radiocarbon dates to upper Ohio Valley sites than to Adena sites farther west. A reappraisal of evidence fr…
The Algonkin Sequence in New York1
Paleopathological evidence suggesting pre‐Columbian tuberculosis in New York State
A Current Synthesis of New York Prehistory
Since my synthesis (Ritchie, 1944) additional chronological and other data (Smith, 1950; Bullen, 1949) have accumulated for the New York area from interrelated field (Ritchie, 1946; also excavations of 1950 on same site) and laboratory (Ritchie and MacNeish, 1949; MacNeish, n.d.) researches. Among the significant sites recently excavated by the writer, which have contributed to the problem of cultural continuity are the Jack's Reef site, to be fu…
Radiocarbon Dates on Samples from New York State
Radiocarbon dates on charcoal samples from New York State have added significant new data to our knowledge of previously little known factors of chronology and continuity in the area. The dates have provided the lower portions of an apparently valid time scale upon which may be reared a more realistic three-dimensional picture of the prehistoric events of this portion of the United States. Sample 191 was excavated by the writer from a hearth situ…
Fifty Years of Archaeology in the Northeastern United States: A Retrospect
Our editor has asked me to prepare a personal account of the most important processes and events that affected the archaeology of the northeastern United States during the last 50 years. This is no small undertaking, considering that the larger part of our knowledge of the prehistory of this area has accumulated during that time. Moreover, because the inception of my service in unraveling the prehistoric events in the Northeast precedes the perio…
The Antiquity of Pottery in the Northeast
Radiocarbon dates indicate the beginning of fiber-tempered pottery in Georgia and Florida around 2000 B.C. In discussing the relative antiquity of ceramics in the Southeast and Northeast, Bullen rejects a radiocarbon date of 2448 B.C. for Vinette 1 pottery from the Hunter site, New York, because of dubious association of pottery and burial complex. The association is shown to be secure, but a new gas-method radiocarbon date of 841 B.C. for the sa…
Each to the Other
There has been, of late, much ado in archaeological circles about amateur and professional relations. Actually, there is no new problem here; there has always been an area of strain as well as an area of amicable cooperation between these groups. The tension, it is true, grows more acute with the rapid decrease in number of good sites and is, therefore, simply another manifestation of the competitive friction associated with increasing population…
Another Probable Case of Prehistoric Bear Ceremonialism in New York
In a prior paper I have described, from central New York, an archaeological instance of probable bear ceremonialism in the Owasco culture. A recent find in western New York, although of somewhat dissimilar character, strengthens the probability of the existence prehistorically in New York of a special and reverential attitude toward the bear, this time apparently among an Iroquois people. Briefly, the nature and circumstances of the new discovery…
The Iroquois and the Birdstone
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The Algonkin Sequence in New York1
The Iroquois and the Birdstone
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Culture Influences from Ohio in New York Archaeology
In the course of its long and eventful prehistory, the territory embraced in the present state of New York was invaded from nearly every direction. For several groups, notably the Iroquois, it was the end of the trail; others sojourned briefly and passed on. In part it was heavily occupied by diverse bands for a considerable period of time. This is especially true of the central and southern sections and of large parts of the Genesee Valley. The …
A Perspective of Northeastern Archaeology
Arbitrarily considered, the Northeastern geographical area embraces the Maritime Provinces of Canada, lower Quebec and Ontario (exclusive of the peninsula), and all of New England, New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Obviously such a large territory (some 485,000 square miles) constitutes neither a single physiographical nor cultural province, but in a general way it was the domain, in both historic and prehistoric times, of two far flung ethn…
The Menace of Provincialism in Archaeology
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Ritchie to Johnson
County Town. A Civic Survey for the Planning of Worcester
John Haynes Bailey, 1909-48
On the night of July 5, 1948, under circumstances which may never be explained, John Haynes Bailey 'shuffled off this mortal coil.' Some two years previously he had undergone a major surgical operation from which, insofar as his family and his friends were aware, he had recovered, but the incubus of ill health offers the most probable solution to the enigma of his tragic death.Born on May 22, 1909, in the western New York village of Dansville, as…
Another Probable Case of Prehistoric Bear Ceremonialism in New York
In a prior paper I have described, from central New York, an archaeological instance of probable bear ceremonialism in the Owasco culture. A recent find in western New York, although of somewhat dissimilar character, strengthens the probability of the existence prehistorically in New York of a special and reverential attitude toward the bear, this time apparently among an Iroquois people. Briefly, the nature and circumstances of the new discovery…
Radiocarbon Dates on Samples from New York State
Radiocarbon dates on charcoal samples from New York State have added significant new data to our knowledge of previously little known factors of chronology and continuity in the area. The dates have provided the lower portions of an apparently valid time scale upon which may be reared a more realistic three-dimensional picture of the prehistoric events of this portion of the United States. Sample 191 was excavated by the writer from a hearth situ…
A Current Synthesis of New York Prehistory
Since my synthesis (Ritchie, 1944) additional chronological and other data (Smith, 1950; Bullen, 1949) have accumulated for the New York area from interrelated field (Ritchie, 1946; also excavations of 1950 on same site) and laboratory (Ritchie and MacNeish, 1949; MacNeish, n.d.) researches. Among the significant sites recently excavated by the writer, which have contributed to the problem of cultural continuity are the Jack's Reef site, to be fu…
Paleopathological evidence suggesting pre‐Columbian tuberculosis in New York State
A Probable Paleo-Indian Site in Vermont
Since the scientific recognition of a paleo-Indian occupation of the Southwest and high Plains, beginning with the Folsom discoveries in 1927 (Roberts, 1940), the presence of man in the eastern United States prior to the earliest demonstrated cultures of the Archaic period has been suspected on the evidence of random surface finds of fluted points. Some of these artifacts have typologically been equated with the Clovis Fluted form (Krieger, 1947,…
The Archeology of the Northeastern United States. Richard S. MacNeish
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
An Archaeological Classification of Culture Contact Situations
The authors of this paper met at Harvard University in July, 1955, to discuss the theoretical problems which arise in the study of culture contact situations in archaeology. The subject of contacts between cultures is one in which ethnologists have long been interested, and there is a substantial body of literature, both descriptive and theoretical, on contemporary and recent historic situations of this kind. Archaeological interest in the subjec…
Archeology. Prehistory of the Upper Ohio Valley: An Introductory Archeological Study. William J. Mayer‐Oakes
Each to the Other
There has been, of late, much ado in archaeological circles about amateur and professional relations. Actually, there is no new problem here; there has always been an area of strain as well as an area of amicable cooperation between these groups. The tension, it is true, grows more acute with the rapid decrease in number of good sites and is, therefore, simply another manifestation of the competitive friction associated with increasing population…
Arthur Caswell Parker-1881-1955
On New Year's Day, 1955, after an eventful and fruitful life of 73 years, Arthur Caswell Parker died suddenly of a heart attack. Even on the final day of his life he had been busy about the delightful hilltop home overlooking Canandaigua Lake, where he and Mrs. Parker had spent his "active retirement" period since 1945, when he terminated a score of his most productive years as director of the Rochester Museum of Arts and Sciences. It was largely…
To the Members of the Society for American Archaeology
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Eastern Dispersal of Adena
In the upper Ohio Valley, Adena mounds and their burials are less complex than, but essentially similar to, those of the major Adena centers of Ohio and Kentucky. Chronologically, they belong in the middle and late Adena periods. Two Adena sites much farther east have been found on Chesapeake Bay; they are closer in trait inventories and in radiocarbon dates to upper Ohio Valley sites than to Adena sites farther west. A reappraisal of evidence fr…
Archeology: Susquehannock Miscellany. John Witthoft and W. Fred Kinsey, III
The Antiquity of Pottery in the Northeast
Radiocarbon dates indicate the beginning of fiber-tempered pottery in Georgia and Florida around 2000 B.C. In discussing the relative antiquity of ceramics in the Southeast and Northeast, Bullen rejects a radiocarbon date of 2448 B.C. for Vinette 1 pottery from the Hunter site, New York, because of dubious association of pottery and burial complex. The association is shown to be secure, but a new gas-method radiocarbon date of 841 B.C. for the sa…
The Donaldson Site
The Principles of Politics. J. R. Lucas
Ground Slates: East and West
Six major hypotheses have been advanced to account for ground slate industries containing knives, lance heads, and projectile points, found on opposite sides of the North American continent. Certain of these hypotheses assume genetic connections; others postulate separate sources and developments for such artifacts in the Northeast and North Pacific areas.A recent study of the cultures involved, chiefly Borden's (1962) Vancouver data, has indicat…
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