Research Catalog

Title

Native forts of the Long Island Sound area / Gaynell Stone, editor.

Publication

Stony Brook, N.Y. : Suffolk County Archaeological Association/Nassau County Archaeological Committee, c2006.

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Additional Authors

• Stone, Gaynell
• Suffolk County Archaeological Association
• Nassau County Archaeological Committee

Description

ix, 341 p. : ill., maps, plans; 28 cm.

Series Statement

Readings in Long Island archaeology & ethnohistory ; v. 8

Uniform Title

Readings in Long Island archaeology and ethnohistory v. 8.

Subject

• Fortification > Long Island Sound (N.Y. and Conn.)
• Indians of North America > Long Island Sound (N.Y. and Conn.) > Antiquities
• Indians of North America > First contact with other peoples > Long Island Sound (N.Y. and Conn.)
• Wampum > Long Island Sound (N.Y. and Conn.)
• Excavations (Archaeology) > Long Island Sound (N.Y. and Conn.)
• Coastal archaeology > Long Island Sound (N.Y. and Conn.)
• Long Island Sound (N.Y. and Conn.) > Antiquities
• Fort Corchaug (N.Y.)
• Fort Ninigret (Charlestown, R.I.)
• Fort Shantok (Conn.)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction. Native forts : markers of Native American-European contact / Gaynell Stone -- Overview. Native forts of the mid-17th c. in the Southern New England-New York coastal area, an amended version / Ralph Solecki -- Fort Corchaug, Long Island. The archaeological position of historic Fort Corchaug, Long Island and its relation to contemporary forts / Ralph Solecki -- Epilogue to Historic Fort Corchaug / Ralph Solecki -- Fort Corchaug and Fort Shantok : a comparative study on 17th c. culture contact in the Long Island Sound area / Lorraine Williams -- Fort Massapeag, Long Island. The archaeology of Fort Neck and vicinity, Massapequa, Long Island, New York / Ralph Solecki ; Appendices. Aboriginal manufacture of wampum on Long Island in the mid 17th c. / James Burggraf -- The Massapequa burials / Anagnostis Agelarakis -- Journal excerpts / William W. Claude -- The Indians of Fort Massapeag / Robert S. Grumet -- A note on Fort Massapeag / Carlyle Smith -- Fort Montauk, Long Island. The Indian fort at Montauk / William Wallace Tooker -- For Hill and vicinity, Montauk, Suffolk County stage I cultural resources study, Town of East Hampton / Edward J. Johannemann -- Fort Island, Block Island. Fort Island : conflict and trade in Long Island Sound / Kevin McBride -- Safeguarding the "mint" : wampum production and the social uses of space at Fort Island / Christine N. Reiser -- Fort Ninigret, Rhode Island. The history and archaeology of Fort Ninigret, a 17th c. eastern Niantic site in Charlestown, R.I. / Charlotte C. Taylor -- Fort Shantok, Connecticut. European trade goods and the chronology of the Fort Shantok site / Bert Salwen -- Fort Corchaug and Fort Shantok / Lorraine Williams -- Fort Monhantic, Connecticut. The Pequot in King Philip's war / Kevin McBride.

ISBN

• 0940209098 (pbk.)
• 9780940209091 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 181099475
• SCSB-10156629

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library